You will now understand what I meant in suggesting that, had the purloined letter been hidden anywhere within the limits of the Prefect's examinationin other words, had the principle of its concealment been comprehended within the principles of the Prefectits discovery would have been a matter altogether beyond question.

It would imperatively lead him to despise all the ordinary nooks of concealment.

Myriads of men sprang into sight from the concealment of the trenches, exposing themselves to the view of the enemy for the first time in more than four years, without fear of consequences.

So far, I did what justice required, though, with a motiveless infatuation for which I can now hardly account, which cannot be accounted for, except by ascribing it to the inconsistent cruelty of passion, I concealed my real name from her with whom there should have been no concealment.

Confidence came too late; for, discovering my unhappiness, Mildred extorted a tardy confession from me; a confession of all but the concealment of the true name; and justly wounded at the deception of which she had been the dupe, and yielding to the impulses of a high and generous spirit, she announced to me that she was unwilling to continue the wife of any man on such terms.

It was a proud family, and Mildred being dead, the concealment of the birth of her child was resorted to, as a means of averting a fancied disgrace.

There had been murder committed on board, and the fellow I had struck down was seeking refuge, endeavoring to find concealment following his crime.

His place of concealment must remain aft in the cabin, and if so, he must be discovered by immediate search.

Concealment and disguise is no longer necessary between us.

Neither of us know what the end may be; we may sink in these waters, or be cast ashore on a desolate coast to perish miserably, and it is no moment for concealment.

"It is in vain," replied Sir William, "to endeavour at concealment."

Indeed, the mask she wears is as much to hide a face that has little to tempt the eye, as from any wish at concealment.

We did not dispute Bowring's right to bring about, if he could, an arrangement more favourable to himself than the one we had proposed; but we thought the concealment which he had practised towards us, while seemingly entering into our own project, an affront: and even had we not thought so, we were indisposed to expend any more of our time and trouble in attempting to write up the Review under his management.

It has since been ascertained that Goffe and Whalley were at that time concealed at the house of Mr. Russel in Hadley, and it is inferred that Goffe left his concealment when the danger threatened, and, forming the men, led them to victory.

As further concealment appeared useless the guns were then unmasked and the fire returned with apparently good results, several hits being claimed.

Her intercourse with Robert Willoughby had been of the tenderest and most confidential nature, above every pretence of concealment, and was rendered sacred by the scenes through which they had passed.

His hands were hidden in the pockets of his dinner-coat; but she could guess how they were held, like claws, in that concealment, claws itching for her throat.

We have taken away the motives to concealment and falshood.

The one put her heart unreservedly into his keeping; she knew nothing of concealment, and he read her as he would an unsophisticated child; there was not a nook or cranny in her heart, he thought, that he had not explored.

" "Yes, Mrs. Branston; but Mr. Saltram has unfortunately made concealment the policy of his life.

And, indeed, from some passages in writers of the Augustan era, it would seem that this custom was not confined to people of distinction, but was familiar to a class of travellers so low in rank as to be capable of abusing their opportunities of concealment for the infliction of wanton injury upon the woods and fences which bounded the margin of the high-road.

The slates are always held in concealment under the table, and never has this remarkable passage of the pencil through the solid substance of the slate been witnessed by any one, not even by the Medium herself, in all the years during which this wonderful phenomenon has been a matter of daily, almost hourly, experience.

This fact, together with the prolonged concealment, rendered it impossible to attach any real importance to the attempt to write, as far as could be made out, the name of Henry Seybert.

This is the famous chest of Cypselus of Corinth, the story of which runs that when his mother's relations, having been warned by the Oracle of Delphi, that her son would prove formidable to the ruling party, sought to murder him, his life was saved by his concealment in this chest, and he became Ruler of Corinth for some 30 years (B.C. 655-625).

[015] All the rules of gardening are reducible to three heads: the contrasts, the management of surprises and the concealment of the bounds.