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Meanings of confess frankly in English

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Usage of confess frankly in English
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Brother, I confess frankly all is not as it should be here.
Andreas Hofer: An Historical Novel
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I confess frankly it looks very serious to me.
The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail
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But I'll confess frankly, I am very much bored.
Crime and Punishment
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I confess frankly that I know the frigate.
Paddy Finn
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I confess frankly, Innstetten, it staggered me.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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No men could have behaved better, for I confess frankly I did not like the work at all.
Ned Myers, or, a Life Before the Mast
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Enter, then, the House of Lords with these stirring memories, and confess frankly to a feeling of disappointment.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 / A Magazi...
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Again she smiled, and each time she smiled straight at me like that, I confess frankly I grew less cautious.
The Man from the Clouds
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The matter never came to me before in precisely this light and I confess frankly I am sorry that I have blundered.
Ted and the Telephone
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I confess frankly that I have no admiration for the phrase "disinterested benevolence," to describe the main-spring of Christian morals.
Joy and Power: Three Messages with One Meaning
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I confess frankly that I felt a trifle less bold than I looked, especially when I discovered the hazardous nature of the going.
The Man from the Clouds
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I do not often do that with my texts, and when I do I like to confess frankly that I am doing it.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor P...
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Don't add a lie to the theft, but confess frankly, and we will all try to help you make us forget and forgive.
Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys
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I confess frankly, since you insist upon it, that I do not rise to the point of appreciating your work as the others do.
Soldiers of Fortune
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He confessed frankly that to him it was still a mystery.
The Philosopher's Joke
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She confessed frankly that she saw no merit in any portrait beyond the likeness.
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volum...
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