With characteristic secretiveness he kept hidden, even from his sister, the drama at which he was quietly working.

As she acknowledged his bow, she was struck anew with the concentrated secretiveness of his appearance.

They had a desolate and unfriendly secretiveness.

Eccentricities he had in plenty; there was something morbid in his excessive reserve, his exaggerated secretiveness about the most important interests of his life, as there surely was in his moroseness, which deepened at times into black despair.

Old Mr. Peregrine lately told me an instance of the extraordinary secretiveness of the labourer.

Lord Windermere's conduct in Oscar Wilde's play is a case in point, though he has not even an oath to excuse his insensate secretiveness.

The next instant the film came again over the small brown eyes, the mask shut down again, as the ancient negro racial secretiveness resumed sway.

He seemed more startled than he had been at the unbelievable secretiveness of a dead man.