The point being to smoke out any baronets and clan chieftains who might be harboring secret sympathies in that direction.

At the same moment Mr. Bucket, with the secret sympathy of friendship, also rises.

Moreover, other Members feigned to trust the Member from Braijth according to their secret sympathies with his country's policy in daring to challenge the leadership of Uskutoshk.

Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight--this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one--this is business.

Mentewab was born in Qwara province, and was rumored to have had a Portuguese grandparent; because of this, she was often suspected of harboring secret Roman Catholic sympathies.

Philip K. Hitti thought he had a "secret sympathy" with the Shi'ites.

He related his discovery or suspicion of a secret sympathy between his sister and Walter Brome, and told how a distempered jealousy had maddened him.

But Mike Dolan, who enjoys the secret sympathies of much of the union membership, can't be persuaded to drop out of the race - even after his life is threatened.

Here's one who may harbor secret sympathies for an imagined rule of Law.

I believe that this secret sympathy with the Policy of Catastrophe is the worm which gnaws at the seaworhiness of any constructive vessel which the Labour Party may launch.