All 24 Uses of
confide
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- I believe that, besides the packet, Captain Leclere confided a letter to his care.†
Chpt 1-2confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- Most willingly, duke; under your auspices I will receive any person you please, but you must not expect me to be too confiding.†
Chpt 9-10 *confiding = placing trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- I have, during those five-and-twenty years, spared no pains to understand the people of France and the interests which were confided to me; and now, when I see the fruition of my wishes almost within reach, the power I hold in my hands bursts, and shatters me to atoms!†
Chpt 11-12confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- "The thing is clear as day," said he; "and you must have had a very confiding nature, as well as a good heart, not to have suspected the origin of the whole affair."†
Chpt 17-18confiding = placing trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- Thus, then, the young men made no attempt at resistance, but blindly and confidingly surrendered themselves into the care and custody of their conductors.†
Chpt 33-34
- He was my friend: he had no secrets from me, and if this had been so he would have confided in me.†
Chpt 49-50confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- The major will bring his son with him this evening, the contino, as we say in Italy; he confides him to my care.†
Chpt 53-54confides = places trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- I shall give him a good dinner, he will confide his son to my care, I will promise to watch over him, I shall let him follow in whatever path his folly may lead him, and then I shall have done my part.†
Chpt 53-54confide = place trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- "I must explain to you," said the major, "that, fully confiding in the signature of the Abbe Busoni, I had not provided myself with any other funds; so that if this resource had failed me, I should have found myself very unpleasantly situated in Paris."†
Chpt 55-56confiding = placing trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- To you alone, then, may I confide my sorrows and my hopes?†
Chpt 73-74confide = place trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- It would be conceding too much to allow you to put on a mask to aid you in the discovery of our secret, and then to remove it that you may ruin those who have confided in you.†
Chpt 75-76confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- Confided to me, it shall never escape my lips; say, Albert, my friend, do you wish it?†
Chpt 83-84
- Meanwhile, the president carelessly opened the letter which had been brought to him; but the first lines aroused his attention; he read them again and again, and fixing his eyes on M. de Morcerf, 'Count,' said he, 'you have said that the Vizier of Yanina confided his wife and daughter to your care?'†
Chpt 85-86
- Oh, I cannot go without taking leave of her; I cannot die without confiding her to some one.†
Chpt 89-90confiding = placing trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- The former was confiding to the latter his grief and fear, for it was the second time within a month that death had suddenly and unexpectedly entered that house which was apparently destined to destruction by some exterminating angel, as an object of God's anger.†
Chpt 93-94
- You must not confide in any one—not even in your father.†
Chpt 101-102confide = place trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- Oh, Lucien, can I confide in you?†
Chpt 105-106
- "You still confide, then, in Sinbad the Sailor?" asked he, smiling.†
Chpt 111-112
- I believe that the Spirit of God led my steps to thee and that he also enables me to quit thee in triumph; the secret cause of my presence within thy walls I have confided alone to him who only has had the power to read my heart.†
Chpt 111-112confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- God only knows that I retire from thee without pride or hatred, but not without many regrets; he only knows that the power confided to me has never been made subservient to my personal good or to any useless cause.†
Chpt 111-112
- Leave him to build up the future for you, and I venture to say you will confide it to safe hands.†
Chpt 111-112confide = place trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- From that time I looked upon this fortune as something confided to me for an especial purpose.†
Chpt 111-112confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- Good-natured, confiding, and forgiving as I had been, I became revengeful, cunning, and wicked, or rather, immovable as fate.†
Chpt 111-112confiding = placing trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- "He is calling you," said the count; "he to whom you have confided your destiny—he from whom death would have separated you, calls you to him.†
Chpt 117confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
Definitions:
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(1)
(confide) to place trust (in someone) by talking about private things or telling secrets
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, confide can mean to give trust to someone while giving them something important--such as a responsibility or a valuable item. For example, "I confided the job to her care."