He has a secret pride in his legs.

I took a great deal of secret pride in being able to control so strong and wild an animal.

"I would say, in fact, there is a secret and almost shameful pride that it happened in our state."

Thus every father had to watch the success of his son without applause, but with secret pride.

He took a secret pride in that; it made him feel unusual and special.

She took secret pride in what she'd accom plished even if no one else had noticed.

Yet even that was not her secret pride.

He had always hugged a secret pride in the fact that his daughters need not go out to work.

He never seemed to apologize and indeed seemed to take a secret pride in his espionage activities.

It was a source of secret pride for Alim.