illconcealed

Updated: May 10, 2025

Tom glared at the little old man with an expression of illconcealed rage. He was about to blurt out some angry reply, when a warning gesture from Dan checked him. Without speaking, he flung himself out of the room. "Poor Tom!" said Dan quickly, to cover Pembroke's attitude toward the Marquis, "this takes him especially hard. He is in love with Nancy." "Eh bien! I sympathize with his good taste.

Latta Griswold - The Inn at the Red Oak

There was much of the child in the young man's whole appearance, but of a mischievous and beautiful child, of whom his mother might observe, with adoration and illconcealed boastfulness, "I can never tell what that child will do next!"

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman - The Copy-Cat and Other Stories