privates

Example Sentences

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"I'm probably the privatest citizen you ever saw," announced California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo as he sailed from Manhattan to find some "excitement" in Europe.

From Time Magazine Archive

When she sent me to the seminary, it was the privatest one she could find.

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice

This balance is observed in the privatest intercourse.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various

I follow, I find, the fortunes of my Country, in my privatest ways.

From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Carlyle, Thomas

That is where Mr. Osmond's Christianity would come in; I do believe that goes right through his life, privatest thoughts and all.

From We Two, a novel by Lyall, Edna