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someone trusted with private matters- They are my friends, partners, and confidants in this project.Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
- In addition to his role as chief handyman, Ti Jean serves as Farmer's main local male confidant.Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
- My confidant was told all this by a Jew who escaped.Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
- And the prisoner chose him for his confidant (we have his own word for it) and he frightened him into consenting at last to act as a spy for him.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
- Mahtoree was not long in communicating his plans to his confidants, whom he as quickly dismissed to join their fellows in the rear.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
- In the cereal aisle or frozen food section, Gabby couldn't seem to avoid him, and he became something of a confidant.Nicholas Sparks -- The Choice
- Impossible; you are his confidant!Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
- Not without a sort of joy indeed he might have appreciated the brave opinion of him implied in his Captain's making such a confidant of him.Herman Melville -- Billy Budd
- Milkman was a confidant, almost an accomplice.Toni Morrison -- Song of Solomon
- I hear things, piece things together, but except where Medusa's concerned, I'm hardly a consultant, much less a confidant.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
- You are almost my sole confidant in this.Gail Carson Levine -- Ella Enchanted
- "Well," yawned Tom, "I've played confidant a good hour by the clock.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
- Siblings, one too close and curious, the other much too far away to serve as confidant.Ellen Hopkins -- Crank
- Sadie Burke didn't have any confidant, for she didn't trust anybody.Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
- Even my own ancestors, who were confidants of the great Samaranth, did not know the secret.James A. Owen -- Here, There be Dragons
- Dessie, who had more friends than anyone in the whole valley, had no confidants.John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
- Through her whole life the wife of the unspeakable Cornelius had no other companion, confidant, and friend but her daughter.Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
- He had to be his confidant, and to date, all he'd done was string the kid along, just like everyone else in his life.Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
- There can be no question that Stapleton had a confidant, though it is unlikely that he ever placed himself in his power by sharing all his plans with him.Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Scott figures this guy is going to waltz off with this thing for dealer invoice, being a friend and confidant of Mr. Norman.Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash