I tried at first to take the measure of him i n a wheedling, confidential way; but it was no good. I asked him, in a facetious, smiling manner, how he had got hold of the letter. He only told me in answer that he had been in the confidential employment of the writer of it, and that he had always been famous since infancy for a sharp eye to his own interests. I paid him some compliments; but he was not to be flattered. I tried to make him lose his temper; but he kept it in spite of me. It ended in his driving me to my last resource--I made an attempt to frighten him.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
Meanwhile the winter threw off the last slumbrous mood of autumn, as a sleeper starts from a dream. A fortnight was gone, and still no message came from the absent leader. One shore was restive, uneasy; the other confident, mocking. Between the two, Rome Stetson waited his chance at the mill.英文原著 · 《A Cumberland Vendetta》
Look at his hair--hit's PARTED IN THE MIDDLE!'' There was a storm of laughter--Uncle Josh had made good--and if the Hon. Samuel could straightway have turned bald-headed and sightless, he would have been a happy man. He looked sick with hopelessness, but Uncle Tommie Hendricks, his mentor, was vigorously whispering something in his ear, and gradually his face cleared. Indeed, the Hon. Samuel was smilingly confident when he rose.英文原著 · 《A Knight of the Cumberland》
Sam confident. On came the Knight at Large, his face a rainbow, his plume wilted and one red base-ball stocking slipped from its moorings--two rings! On followed the fat Maxwelton, his plaid streaming and his kilts flapping about his fat legs--also two rings!英文原著 · 《A Knight of the Cumberland》
"Are you very poor now, Sara?" she had asked confidentially the first morning her friend took charge of the small French class. "Are you as poor as a beggar?" She thrust a fat hand into the slim one and opened round, tearful eyes. "I don't want you to be as poor as a beggar."英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
"Here was an explicit, forcible, confident declaration on either side. A couple of tigers confabulating, with the prey before them, and a fight impending, would have been no finer and no shrewder than this pair; the insolent fine gentleman as great a blackguard as the other in his soiled and mud-stained clothes.英文原著 · 《A Man of Business》
It says "Personal and Confidential." They all say "Personal and Confidential." - I'll take it. - Yes, sir.美剧 · 《The News Room》
that makes me feel strong, confident, And like anything is possible.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
I couldn't hear the words, but she sounded unnaturally confident.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
I have never been more confident, because as I stand here and look out at all of you today…美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》