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“So please your excellency,” said Kilian, with a deep respect of manner which entirely differed from the tone, approaching to familiarity, with which he communicated with his master in private,

Anne of Geierstein 2008
However, the room did not feel particularly private,

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005
However, the room did not feel particularly private,

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005
Feeling guilty for the intrusion into what was deeply private,

A Funeral In Blue Perry, Anne, 1938- 2001
Regarding the investigative team's violation of Nkabinde's constitutional right to consult with his defence in private,

ANC Daily News Briefing 1998
After a lengthy adjournment to discuss the issue in private,

ANC Daily News Briefing 1995
One of the most rabid and uncompromising of secession leaders, and bigoted in his hatred of the North, he was yet, in private,

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 Various
If your Majesty will allow me to make my representations in private,

King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Laurence Housman 1912
But even so, at the thought of Jervis Blake becoming a private,

Good Old Anna Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907
When practically every school, public and private,

Frederick Douglass 1906