incognitos

No one knew who would succeed Saddam if he fled or fell; a diplomat in Jordan described his inner circle as "a cast of incognitos."

After The Storm 2008

I wonder why the incognitos need so much time before reporting on the event?

AAAS: Teachers and Evolution on the Front Line - The Panda's Thumb 2006

By then I had remembered that I held honorary commissions in half a dozen legions and epitagms, all of which I could employ as incognitos without a lie.

The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

The two invited guests would have deliberately enjoyed the unusual gratification, but the inviter, pre-occupied by—the reader knows what—anxious and uneasy at the strange behaviour of these incognitos, was impatient for the time of departure.

Chapter VII 1909

'And incognitos seem to be fashionable here,' he purrs, soft and gentle.

The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

"There the English minister came forward from the town to flout us with an address of welcome in which he used not our incognitos but our true names."

Clementina 1906

Even the news brought by Demorest of some vague rumor in the pueblo that an intended attack on the stage-coach had been frustrated by the authorities, and that the vicinity had been haunted by incognitos of both parties, failed to revive the discussion.

The Argonauts of North Liberty Bret Harte 1869

But all is now lost; I know not who he was; and this estimable author must needs share the oblivious fate of all literary incognitos.

Redburn. His First Voyage Herman Melville 1855

Upon the third day, however, there was noticed a mysterious figure, like the inscrutable incognitos sometimes encountered, crossing the tower-shadowed Plaza of Assignations at Lima.

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

He replied that, by courtesy, incognitos were sacred.

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855