"I find here acquisitiveness and secretiveness enough to stock an entire Board of Aldermen and a Congressional Committee.

That indicated secretiveness, perhaps fear, the apprehension of something.

She had no secretiveness, and in looking over her letters it has been almost impossible to find one which did not contain too much that was personal, either about herself or others, to make it proper; especially as she herself would be very unwilling to make the affairs of others public.

As he made his way to the end of the room he saw Griffenberg and several of the other financiers in a group, as usual; and they were talking with even more than their ordinary enthusiasm and secretiveness.

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

The organization of the Council of Four and the mystery which enveloped its deliberations emphasized as nothing else could have done the secretiveness with which adjustments were being made and compromises were being effected.

Two days after I wrote the note, which is quoted (April 2, 1919), I made another note more general in character, but in which appears the following: "Everywhere there are developing bitterness and resentment against a secretiveness which is interpreted to mean failure.

When one reviews the negotiations at Paris from December, 1918, to June, 1919, the secretiveness which characterized them is very evident.

If to this brief summary of the increasing secretiveness of the proceedings of the controlling bodies of the Peace Conference are added the intrigues and personal bargainings which were constantly going on, the "log-rolling"to use a term familiar to American politicswhich was practiced, the record is one which invites no praise and will find many who condemn it.

Except in the case of a few of these delegates, who had been able to establish intimate personal relations with some of the "Big Four," the secretiveness of the discussions and decisions regarding the Treaty settlements aroused amazement and indignation.

Secrecy, and intrigues which were only possible through secrecy, stained nearly all the negotiations at Paris, but in this final act of withholding knowledge of the actual text of the Treaty from the delegates of most of the nations represented in the Conference the spirit of secretiveness seems to have gone mad.

Were we to speak of Addison phrenologically, we should say that, next to veneration, wit, and ideality, his principal faculties were caution and secretiveness.

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.

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

They had a desolate and unfriendly secretiveness.

His silence and secretiveness encouraged this feeling.

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

When they went up-stairs, while she was brushing her hairher hair rewarded brushing, for it was fine and long and took a polish like bronzeshe had wandered into Vincent's room to discuss with him the question of her father's secretiveness about Mrs. Wayne.

In its age, its uncouth savage strength, and its secretiveness.

Secretiveness and secret planning are vulgarity; men and women need to be educated, and he will be educated out of these vices.

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.

Either the fugitives were unknown, or the natural secretiveness of an alien people forbade any reference to them, even among themselves; and meanwhile, as I have said, I tramped the streets nightly into the small hours of the morning.

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

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.

The cunning of these unfortunates is proverbial and is only equalled by their secretiveness and mendacity.