"Make a clean breast of" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I will make a clean breast of it," said the Signor, dashing several pieces of gold upon the floor,—"there, sir, is indeed the root of all evil! that gold was placed in my hands by a woman, who would make me a tool for the carrying out of designs, which I have ...
— Natalie - A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds • Ferna Vale
... have anything in their heads or hearts that they do not take to Jesus Christ, and it is an uncommonly good test—and one very easily applied—of our hopes, fears, purposes, thoughts, deeds, and desires—'Should I like to go and make a clean breast of it to ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Mark • Alexander Maclaren
... Mr. Garth evidently concluded that the best course was to make a clean breast of it—an expedient which he conceived to be insusceptible of danger, for he could see that the funeral party were already on the brow of the hill. So, with one foot stretched forward as if in the preliminary stage of a hurried ...
— The Shadow of a Crime - A Cumbrian Romance • Hall Caine
... to make a clean breast of the facts,' I answered. 'Depend upon it, if your son is innocent he will be none ...
— A Study In Scarlet • Arthur Conan Doyle
... have spent the night. Their quarrelsome jargon reaches me as I cautiously raise my head over the dunes, for often a band of plover is feeding at dawn out on the mud, close enough for a shot. Nothing in view save the gulls, those gossiping concierges of the bay, who rise like a squall of snow as I make a clean breast of my presence, and start across the soggy, slippery mud toward the marsh running out to the open sea. A curlew, motionless on his long legs, calls cheerfully from the point of sand: "Curli—Curli!" Strong, cheerful old bird. The rifts of white mist ...
— A Village of Vagabonds • F. Berkeley Smith
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