arriere-pensee

And I have never trusted the arriere-pensee of King Yeochee and Pallol One-Eye.

The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981

But are we to suppose that suddenly, after a long widowhood, Agrippina put forth so strange a proposal without any arriere-pensee whatever?

The Women of the Caesars Ferrero, Guglielmo, 1871-1942 1911

Though the Spanish Jews did not yet cultivate the allegoric and mystic exegesis, their philosophic sense was rather refined and they did not always approach the study of the Bible without seeking something not clearly expressed in the text, without arriere-pensee so to speak.

Rashi Liber, Maurice 1906

This question would doubtless have elicited a categorical reply; but somehow, the consciousness of an arriere-pensee made me shrink from putting such

The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English Julian Hawthorne 1890

At any rate I kept on my guard, so that Miss Tita should not have occasion again to ask me if I had an arriere-pensee.

The Aspern Papers 1888

But it had done no more than impress her; for though in delivering the lines he had so fixed his look upon her as to suggest, to any maiden practised in the game of the eyes, a present significance in the words, the idea of any such arriere-pensee had by no means commended itself to her soul.

A Laodicean : a Story of To-day Thomas Hardy 1884

Having told you this, I must tell you, too, Aunt Janet, lest you should be made anxious by the _arriere-pensee_ of all these warlike measures of defence, that I always sleep at night with one of these iron screens across the window.

The Lady of the Shroud Bram Stoker 1879

Dick meant nothing by this speech more than his words implied: he was far too good-natured for an _arriere-pensee_.

Not Like Other Girls Rosa Nouchette Carey 1874

A savage will not assist in packing them, for he fears their heels: the Swiss say mules have always an arriere-pensee.

The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Francis Galton 1866

That the dinner was merely hospitality to a refugee landed upon our shores in distress; and that my presidency would take away any suspicion that there was the slightest _arriere-pensee_ in the matter.

Canada and the States 1860