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"Secret society" Quotes from Famous Books

... political but non-partisan association of women, pledged to work for the civic betterment of Denver, pledged to fight the corrupt politicians, determined that the city government shall be well administered even if the women have to take over the offices themselves. The League is, in effect, a secret society of women. It has an inflexible rule that its proceedings are to be kept inviolable. There is a perfect understanding that any woman who divulges one syllable of what occurs at a meeting of the League will be instantly dropped from ...

— What eight million women want • Rheta Childe Dorr

... has, unless I am mistaken, convinced many English Radicals that the installation of an Irish Ministry at Dublin will be the dissolution of every secret society throughout Ireland, and thus gained over to the cause of Home Rule men who detest anarchy even more than ...

— England's Case Against Home Rule • Albert Venn Dicey

... to any secret society? have you fought a duel?—I am obliged to ask these questions for they ...

— En Route • J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

... the whole wickedness of civilization staring them in the face, their idea of being bold and bright is to attack the War Office. They might as well start a campaign against the weather, or form a secret society in order to make jokes about mothers-in-law. Nor is it only from the point of view of particular amateurs of the sensational such as myself, that it is permissible to say, in the words of Cowper's Alexander Selkirk, that ...

— Heretics • Gilbert K. Chesterton

... cordially. "I am so glad you changed your mind and came. The initiation is about to begin. Have you ever belonged to a secret society?" ...

— Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School - Or, Fast Friends in the Sororities • Jessie Graham Flower

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