long-confessed

Updated: June 11, 2025

It had been his intention to boldly announce that he hadn't taken his medicine, that he never would again unless he needed it, and, moreover, that he was going to eat his supper to-night, and always, as long as God should spare him, etc., etc., etc. But he had no sooner found himself in the presence of long-confessed superior powers than he knew that he would never do any of these things.

Ruth McEnery Stuart - Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches