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to make a secret known- But I have had my plans, too; it is time I should begin to divulge them.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pioneers
- Yet here I hardly know whether I should divulge one little item of rumor, which came to my ear a few months after the scrivener's decease.Herman Melville -- Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street
- Well, Your Honor, I shall disappoint him, for I shall divulge the motive.Richard Wright -- Native Son
- GaoLing paused and pursed her lips, as if she had already divulged too much.Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
- You knew nothing concrete that you could have divulged, no intermediary who pointed to Washington.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
- To let the world keep a little of its magic, rather than forcing it to divulge every last secret.Ransom Riggs -- Hollow City
- I talked to Ross for hours, explaining what I was about, cautioning him not to relate anything that he did not want to divulge.Richard Wright -- Black Boy
- They were on a mission whose secrets were too vital to be divulged under Japanese torture.James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
- "Why would the Imp divulge such plans to his wife's maid?"George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
- No information had been collected, not a single idea about the whereabouts of Wes and Tony had been divulged.Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore
- He divulged how David destroyed the Enemy's ships through the observatory dome and how he'd tricked Prusias by swapping Connor's soul.Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
- The santeras had made eight cuts on her tongue with a razor blade so that the god could speak, but Felicia could not divulge his words.Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
- He had a secret within a secret, something he had not divulged, even to Bassett or to his Uncle Oscar.D. H. Lawrence -- The Rocking-Horse Winner
- Lord Steyne, laughing, promised he never would divulge their conversation, and when he and Miss Briggs parted he laughed still more.William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
- Trying to make it divulge its purpose to me.Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire
- He never spoke of himself, and in a conversation with Miss Norton divulged the pleasing fact.Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
- No one had given Cersei such a lovely gift since Sansa Stark had run to her to divulge Lord Eddard's plans.George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
- And Hans Castorp divulged his sad, but for all that, spiffing news.Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
- Some of the subtlest secrets of the seas seemed divulged to us in this enchanted pond.Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
- Jane would only have to imply some unfortunate tragedy, too delicate a matter to divulge—and really, was that such a lie?Margaret Peterson Haddix -- Uprising