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secret and lay
For example, lay one's cards on the table meaning to reveal previously unknown intentions, or to reveal a secret.
But Louis VII's interest lay in Jerusalem, and so he slipped out of Antioch in secret.
Frederick made a secret truce with Austria and thus, lay inactive in Silesia.
The campaign was a complete success, convincing the English people that such a plan really existed ; it was greatly aided by the decision by Charles's brother James, the Duke of York, to lay down his position as Lord High Admiral, which was generally ( and correctly ) interpreted as a sign that James had in secret become a Catholic and was therefore unable to abjure the transubstantiation doctrine, as the Test Act demanded of all officials.
Temporary spouse-trading is practiced as an element of ritual initiation into the Lemba secret society in the French Congo through " wife exchange ": " you shall lay with the priestess-wife of your Lemba Father, and he shall lay with your wife too.
The character of Cosmo von Wehrstahl has a secret drawer, in which "... lay the works of Albertus Magnus and Cornelius Agrippa ...
As Agnes ' brother, Robert, has been quoted " The whole secret of my getting on lay with my mother.
He confined himself, therefore, chiefly to taking into account the political events and their results just as they lay on the surface ; and, not consulting the state archives for the secret springs which set them in motion, he based his historical narratives almost entirely on his subjective judgment.
The secret of the Lernaean spring was the gift of Poseidon when he lay with the " blameless " daughter of Danaus, Amymone.
Since the affair had been kept secret she had difficulty obtaining information about him, and could not afford to visit him in the Edinburgh hospital where he lay dying.
It also commented that " The secret of his success ... lay chiefly in his dialogue, which is seldom otherwise than neat, pointed and amusing.
Several others, including priests, nuns and lay people, worked in secret with O ' Flaherty, and even hid refugees in their own private homes around Rome.
But many western historians were sceptical about Khrushchev's efforts to lay all the blame for past communist crimes on Stalin ... After Khrushchev's fall in 1964 memoirists were free to provide a more positive account of Stalin's role and to correct the simplistic and often incredible assertions of the secret speech ; for example, that Stalin had planned military operations using a globe of the earth!
Behind the music stage lay the park's worst-kept secret: a hole in the fence used by local children to sneak into the park without paying admission.
: It is impossible to lay down precise rules by which a man may attain to the knowledge and conversation of His Holy Guardian Angel ; for that is the particular secret of each one of us ; a secret not to be told or even divined by any other, whatever his grade.
Oliver's enemy Arnaut de Cervole, otherwise known as the Archpriest, is approaching the Dordogne to lay siege and Oliver wants the secret to defend La Roque.
In the 1970s many Westerners were made aware of these extreme claims of longevity in Azerbaijan and elsewhere in the Caucasus region when a U. S. Dannon yogurt commercial invoked some of these people to suggest that the secret of their long lives lay in the frequent consumption of yogurt.
When Norodom was officially crowned king in 1864 in a joint coronation ceremony supervised by the French and Siamese officials, Si Votha once again made no secret of his intention to lay claim to the Cambodian throne.
The secret of his success lay in his inculcating on his pupils respect for their own honour.
" And we decided the secret maybe lay in some other games Capcom has done.
Pointed hoods were used by various secret orders and Catholic lay confraternities for processions, e. g. the Semana Santa of Sevilla who wore the Capirote.
As to lay trustees, they must not be members of secret societies nor men who have not fulfilled the paschal duty.

secret and years
For years the United States had been trying to get these countries to exclude Castro's representative from secret military talks.
Did he have a right to know the secret I'd kept from Gladdy all these years??
He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secret of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia — the Roba El Khaliyeh or " Empty Space " of the ancients — and " Dahna " or " Crimson " desert of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death.
He dismisses Nora's agonized choice made against her conscience for the sake of his health and her years of secret efforts to free them from the ensuing obligations and danger of loss of reputation, while preserving his peace of mind, as a mere mistake that she made owing to her foolishness, one of her most endearing feminine traits.
Wally and Candy marry shortly afterward, but Candy and Homer maintain a secret affair that lasts some 15 years.
The Fifth Dalai Lama's death was kept secret for fifteen years by the regent (), Sanggye Gyatso.
Two employees of the security firm, Kargus, run by a former member of France's secret services, received sentences of three and two years respectively.
This might be because of the general disarmament of the Empire in the twenty years leading up to the sacking, or because the Byzantines had lost access to the areas where the primary ingredients were to be found, or even perhaps because the secret had been lost over time.
In 1989, the socialist regime collapsed after 40 years, despite its omnipresent secret police, the Stasi.
* 1893 – Grover Cleveland undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw ; operation not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
A secret training airfield was established at Lipetsk in 1924 and operated for approximately nine years using mostly Dutch and Russian, but also some German, training aircraft before being closed in 1933.
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (; ; 29 March 1899 – 23 December 1953 ) was a Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus ( NKVD ) under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and Deputy Premier in the postwar years ( 1946 – 1953 ).
The second bull was kept secret for many years, and Giovanni was assumed to be Cesare's son.
According to Nancy Reagan in her memoirs published in 1989, Reagan disclosed to his parents in 1987 a very painful incident in his boyhood that he had kept secret for many years.
For over one hundred years, Venetian mirrors installed in richly decorated frames served as luxury decorations for palaces throughout Europe, but the secret of the mercury process eventually arrived in London and Paris during the 17th century, due to industrial espionage.
He further asserted that for twenty years, starting in the early 1950s, the CIA and the Defense Department conducted secret research ( notably including Project MKULTRA ) in an attempt to develop practical brainwashing techniques, and that their attempt failed.
The secret report's alleged en-route solar sextant data were inadvertently so impossibly overprecise that he excised all these alleged raw solar observations out of the version of the report finally sent to geographical societies five months later ( while the original version was hidden for 70 years ), a realization first published in 2000 by the University of Cambridge after scrupulous refereeing.
It was a family secret for 600 years and even ( Sir John's ) mother, who died shortly before we visited, refused to reveal the secret.
For thirty years, the KGB and FSB trained Iraqi secret police ; some 70, 000 Russian military advisors, many of them intelligence and security specialists, served in Iraq from 1973-2003.
His occult interests were kept secret during his years in office, and only became publicized later.
* August 28 – Josef Fritzl drugs and incarcerates his daughter Elisabeth in a secret cellar, in Amstetten, Austria ; she was released only after 24 years of sexual abuse and mental ordeal.
** Trisha Meili is attacked while jogging in New York City's Central Park ; as her identity remains secret for years, she becomes known as the " Central Park Jogger.
Bamboo and wooden slips, will remain the usual materials for books and scrolls in most of the world for another 200 years, and paper will remain a Chinese secret for 500 years.

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