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Sentences starting with private

Private Gellatly, standing without, heard Sergeant Fones say, as he passed into the open air, and slowly bared his forehead to the winter sun: "Exactly. [11]
Private Gellatly said, with a shake of the head, as she was lost to view: "Devils bestir me, what a widdy she'll make! [11]
Private Gellatly looked up wonderingly. [11]
Private Gellatly spoke softly: "Angels betide me, it's little we knew the great of him till he wint away; the pride, and the law--and the love of him. [11]
Private theatricals, as I have figured in them in country lyceum-halls, are one thing,--and private theatricals, as they may be seen in certain gilded and frescoed saloons of our metropolis, are another. [6]
Private interests must give way to the public good. [5]
Private Gellatly was cousin to Idaho Jack, and Idaho Jack disliked Pretty Pierre, though he had been one of the gang. [11]
Private talk at a dinner-table is like private chat at a parlor musicale, only it is more fatal to the general enjoyment. [4]

Sentences ending with private

Three 'rickshas, but we couldn't get them--apparently private. [5]
I mean this to be private. [7]
I would form this crack regiment out of officers alone--not a single private. [5]
If her Majesty, the Queen of England, sends you a copy of her "Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands," be sure you mark your letter of thanks for it Private! [6]
The command of the left flank belonged by seniority to the commander of the regiment Kutuzov had reviewed at Braunau and in which Dolokhov was serving as a private. [2]
Grim Deacon Ira stopped him as he was going to buy hides, and would have prayed over him if Jethro had waited; dear Aunt Lucy did pray, but in private. [9]
Very well, what shall we do--make the inquiry private? [5]
The interment was private. [4]
You can laugh over that as much as you like--in private. [6]
Whenever he heard of an instance of this kind, he would keep that particular remark in mind and analyze it at home in private. [5]

Short sentences using private

We have some private conf'rence. [11]
We enjoy it in private. [4]
Private. [5]

Sentences containing private two or more times

In fact, those were very trying days for him-days when he needed all the private sympathy he could get, and to be shielded, in his great fight with the conspiracy, from petty private annoyances. [4]
If she'll let up on some of the roughest things, I'll smoke private and cuss private, and crowd through or bust. [5]
Knonohikis (Superintendents) of the Crown Lands, Konohikis of the Private Lands of His Majesty Konohikis of the Private Lands of Her late Royal Highness. [5]
Such a number of medical periodicals no private library would have room for, no private person would pay for, or flood his tables with if they were sent him for nothing. [3]
The newspaper, which is the property of a private person as much as a drug-shop is, is expected to perform for nothing services which would be asked of no other private person. [4]
The General surprised his visitor by recognizing private after private in the cots, and he always had a brief word of cheer to brighten their faces, to make them follow him with wistful eyes as he passed beyond them. [9]
These wires were for private service only, as yet, and must be kept private until a riper day should come. [5]

More example sentences with the word private in them

I know not your purposes, but I trust you will not push your advantage"--he waved towards our muskets--"against a private gentleman. [11]
It was a young woman--a young woman where properly no young woman belonged; for she was in Judge Driscoll's house, and in the bedroom over the judge's private study or sitting room. [5]
There, if anywhere you will forget your private and short-lived woe, for my voice speaks to the infinite and the eternal in your consciousness. [6]
I am glad you told me my faults plainly in private, for in your public notice you touch on them so lightly, I should perhaps have passed them over thus indicated, with too little reflection. [14]
Subsequently I wrote you that, for a private reason, I had concluded to transpose them. [7]
I know how you hide in areas, how you talk sedition in private, how you have made money out of other men's misery. [9]
How often when you have tried to get a "rise" out of somebody opposite have you not had your neighbor cut in across you with some private depressing observation to your next neighbor! [4]
I can't give you any passes, and I know you don't want any, but you can just get into my private car and no expense to anybody, and see all there is to be seen. [4]
Arrived in New York, Ed found his way to Commodore Vanderbilt's business quarters, and was ushered into a large anteroom, where a score of people were patiently awaiting their turn for a two-minute interview with the millionaire in his private office. [5]
He was not yet aware of her arrival for, completely absorbed in the subject of their conversation, he was talking with his private secretary Escovedo. [10]
Above this Damour wrote for himself an order upon the chamberlain of Bercy to enter upon Philip's private apartments in the castle; and thither he was fleeing as Philip lay dying in the dark room of the house in the Rue de Vaugirard. [11]
That Mr. Billson would read a private paper was a thing which could not occur to me; he was an honourable man, and he would be above that. [5]
The same conclusion would be reached, whether we were to consider him in his private relations or in his career as a man of letters. [4]
They could exchange words and looks, they could arrange private interviews, they would be stooping together over the same book, her hair touching his cheek, her breath mingling with his, all the magnetic attractions drawing them together with strange, invisible effluences. [6]
After his conversation with the sovereign he had retired to his private room, to devote himself to the philological studies which he pursued during the greater portion of the day with equal zeal and success. [10]
So it was with that chess-playing private from New Zealand of whom Barry Whalen told Ian Stafford. [11]
He looked forward with delight to the time when he could again have his private garden, grow his own lettuce and tomatoes, and not have to get so much "sarce" from Congress. [4]
It was Mr. Wing's private car, and was going to Newport. [9]
The folding-doors are wide open to every Protestant to enter all the privileged precincts and private apartments of the various exclusive religious organizations. [6]
In reviewing the whole course of its history we read a long list of honored names, and a precious record written in private memories, in public charities, in permanent contributions to medical science, in generous sacrifices for the country. [3]
The little man who worried Ibrahim urged him the way his private inclinations ran, but he was obdurate: duty must be done. [11]
There was much whispering and there were many conjectures as to its authorship, but every Teacup looked innocent, and we separated each with his or her private conviction. [6]
And no sooner were we outside the gates than I declared I should never again enter a private residence by the back door. [9]
The only gentry were the Cure, the Avocat, and the young Seigneur, but of the three the only one with a private income was the young Seigneur. [11]
But probably they were rather private citizens on their way to some festival celebrating the victory; for every one now believed in a great battle and a successful issue of the war. [10]
Dishes of butter were distributed along the table within reach of people's arms, if they had long ones, but there were no private butter plates. [5]
Been reading Daniel Webster's Private Correspondence. [5]
We are already wealthy; we have greater resources and higher credit than any other nation; we have more wealth than any save one; we have vast accumulations of fortune, in private hands and in enormous corporations. [4]
But why should we allow him to pay that out of his private pocket? [5]
Short led the way; with the flat box, the private luggage (which was not extensive) tied up in a bundle, and a brazen trumpet slung from his shoulder-blade. [12]
And the private watchman whom Hodder sometimes met in the darkness, and who invariably scrutinized pedestrians on Park Street, seemed symbolic, of this attitude. [9]
That private reason was the request of an old personal friend who himself desired to be receiver, but whom I felt it my duty to refuse a recommendation. [7]
Here in Memphis was the centre of administration of his property, and besides the offices for his private affairs were those he needed as a state official. [10]
The deference that was paid to a desperado of wide reputation, and who "kept his private graveyard," as the phrase went, was marked, and cheerfully accorded. [5]
Before the book was half finished those three were taking things almost entirely into their own hands and working the whole tale as a private venture of their own--a tale which they had nothing at all to do with, by rights. [5]
Then Doltaire's look was fixed on me, and I knew he waited to see if I would divulge the matter private between us. [11]
Just as he was better acquainted with every province than the most experienced governor, with every band of soldiers than the sergeant, so nothing escaped him which concerned the private lives of those whom he valued. [10]
One day there was a private reading in the Queen's chamber of the palace. [11]
His wife, Electra, was a capable helpmeet, although--like himself --a dreamer of dreams and a private dabbler in romance. [5]
But is the war our private affair, dad? [9]
It is a war claim which implies no private gain, and no compensation except for one of the cases of destruction incident to war, which may well be repaired by the people of the whole country. [5]
It is a very pretty sight, on private view. [5]
Just see who ventures--but to be sure any one has a right to knock, for at Lochias I am not the Emperor, but a simple private gentleman. [10]
He took me up into a private room in the fort, where you were; and the surgeon, who was there at the time, said that your chances were as slim as any man's he had ever seen. [9]
We can even understand those people who get a private satisfaction in being good on other days besides Sunday. [4]
From two directions two long files of infantry came plowing through the pack and press in silence; there was a low, crisp order and the crowd vanished, the square save the sidewalks was empty, the private mourner was gone. [5]
Gray, John Hay, Twichell, and others who had a chance to see it thought highly of it, and Hay had it set in type and a few proofs taken for private circulation. [5]
Suddenly Mr. Carvel turned, shaking with a laughter he could not control, and strode into the private office the door slammed behind him. [9]
It was a trying five minutes for King, who felt as guilty, as if the White Sulphur were private property into which he had intruded without an invitation. [4]
Such is the true version of the most memorable private conflict of the age. [5]
No one appeared troubled or anxious; the officials had a conscientious civility; the government seemed to manage their welcome as well as a private company or corporation could have done. [8]
We tried to trade him off at private vendue next, offering him at a sacrifice for second-hand tombstones, old iron, temperance tracts--any kind of property. [5]
A post-village and township in _________ Co., State of _________,situated in a fine agricultural region, 2 thriving villages, Pigwacket Centre and Smithville, 3 churches, several school houses, and many handsome private residences. [6]
The old minister took it for granted that the Reverend Mr. Fairweather knew the private history of his parishioner's family. [6]
The friends supped together at the satrap's table and then retired to Bartja's private room, in order to enjoy an undisturbed conversation. [10]
Its leaders began to visit Springfield and hold long private conferences with him. [5]
She had come to the point of accepting Henderson's methods of overreaching the world, and was tempering the result with private liberality. [4]
The principal objection to the choice made by the powerful head of the government was that it had fallen on land owned by a private individual. [10]
His plan was to slip down to his uncle's private sitting room below, pass into the bedroom, steal the safe key from the old gentleman's clothes, and then go back and rob the safe. [5]
Carcaud, seriously wounded, to save his life turned King's evidence, and disclosed to the Royal Court in private his own guilt and Olivier Delagarde's treason. [11]
He was out to prevent his own son from driving himself into private life, and he would lose no trick in the game, if he could help it. [11]
Then he called to one of the so-called "holy fathers," his private secretary, and said: "Draw up at once a document, to be sent to all the priests'-colleges in the land. [10]
I sent it to New York by a private wire. [4]
Eliphalet sat next to Miss Belle, and heard the private history of many old families, which he cherished for future use. [9]
It is monstrous to me that the situation should be made on either side a political occasion for private ambition or for party ends. [4]
If we had to keep the sun kindled up and going by private corporate action, or act of Congress, and to be taxed for the support of customs officers of solar heat, we should prize it more than we do. [4]
He spoke freely to him of the most private family matters, of the most important State affairs. [11]
Nothing was private to her inner self now. [11]
Thus I came to have to do with the good barrister's private affairs. [9]
We seemed suddenly to have come into an illumination and a private lunatic asylum. [4]
I beg you to give my best thanks to the Bath Club for the offer of its hospitalities, but I shall not be able to take advantage of it, because I am to be a guest in a private house during my stay in London. [5]
He was glad to get away and find a place where he could despise himself in private and try to grow his clipped plumes again. [5]
The captain attained to fame in our little world from his maiden address, in which he very shrewdly separated the political character of Mr. Wilkes from his character as a private gentleman, and so refuted a charge of profligacy against the people's champion. [9]
It is needless to dwell upon the chagrin of Honora's maternal grandfather, Howard Allison Esquire, over this turn of affairs, this unexpected bouleversement, as he spoke of it in private to his friends in his Parisian club. [9]
However, I seem to be going counter to my own Private Philosophy--which Livy won't allow me to publish--because it would destroy me. [5]
It is beginning to be discovered that the Gothic sort of church edifice is fatal to the Congregational style of worship that has been prevalent here in New England; but it will do nicely (as they say in Boston) for private devotion. [4]
Even liars have to admit that, if they are intelligent liars; I mean in their private [the word conscientious written but erased] intervals. [5]
Tom took him to a private place and opened the matter to him confidentially. [5]
Rut one gets tired of the strings of questions sent him, to which he is expected to return an answer, plucked, ripe or unripe, from his private tree of knowledge. [6]
I am getting tired of private letters. [5]
It was some time before her husband responded to the call; and then he explained that if Honora didn't object, he was going to a man's dinner in a private room. [9]
The bands of Thugs had private graveyards. [5]
They had fought through the wars and retired to private life--covered with honorable scars. [5]
They seem endless, through odorous pine woods and shady lanes, by private roads among beautiful villas and exquisite grounds, with evidences everywhere of wealth to be sure, but of individual taste and refinement. [4]
Then we lounged through many and many a sumptuous private mansion which we could not have entered without a formal invitation in incomprehensible Latin, in the olden time, when the owners lived there--and we probably wouldn't have got it. [5]
It came officially through brother Washington, the private Secretary, who appended a postscript that was brimming with delight over the prospect of seeing the Duchess again. [5]
The city permits this house to belong to private parties, instead of gracing and dignifying herself with the honor of possessing and protecting it. [5]
By reason of this extraordinary article in the newspaper, the public had acquired the right to know all about the private life of the Mavick family. [4]
Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. [5]
As a rule they spent a part of every Sabbath--after morning service --in this sumptuous home, the rest of it they spent in Europe, or in dawdling around in their private yacht. [5]
And he and they liked me, and respected my office; but as an animal, without birth or sham title, they looked down upon me--and were not particularly private about it, either. [5]
But in truth these papers have many of the characteristics of private letters written home to friends. [6]
Apparently one of these laws has been broken; when the King is on his throne again, can it ever grieve him to remember that when he was seemingly a private person he loyally sank the king in the citizen and submitted to its authority? [5]
What connection was there between the words of Sergeant Fones and those of Private Gellatly? [11]
I will send them myself, and your letters and private papers will not be read.... You feel you can rely on me for that--eh? [11]
I gathered from their conversation that they were on their way to Philadelphia upon some private business, the nature of which, knowing Captain Daniel's sentiments and those of Colonel Washington, I went not far to guess. [9]
It was the theatre of Rome--of the world--and the man of fashion who could not let fall in a casual and unintentional manner something about "my private box at the Coliseum" could not move in the first circles. [5]
Having to take the wife of a high personage of the neighbouring Republic over the line in the private car, he had astounded his master by presenting a bill for finger-bowls before the journey began. [11]
So I ask the valet, and he say he is in the private room that lead to the treasure-place. [11]
By and by the stony foot of the great University will plant itself on this whole territory, and the private recollections which clung so tenaciously and fondly to the place and its habitations will have died with those who cherished them. [6]

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