Ulysses vocabulary

Such a good husband, two children . . . she moves in a decent circle, always poses as a saint—and all at once, would you believe it. . . . Only, hubby, of course this is entre nous. . . . Give me your word of honour you won’t tell a soul?”

Anton Chekhov. The Schoolmaster and other stories

---

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita

---

The little ferret-faced youth in the corner was Regie Colby, who wrote the Entre-Nous paragraphs in the Social Searchlight: the women were charming to him and he got all the financial tips he wanted from their husbands and fathers.

Edith Wharton. The Greater Inclination

---

both instinctively exchanged meaning glances, in a religious silence of the strictly entre nous variety however,