Private Dormer popped his head out of his blanket and gazed at the glory below and around.
I then remarked that Miss Vanstone had only taken one of her three boxes with her -- and it now occurred to me that a
private investigation of the luggage she had left behind might possibly be attended with beneficial results.
You are horrified at our intending to do away with
private property.
The officers at once protested that they must have the
private with them, else there would be no one for them to command.
Of course, it might be said that the Individualism generated under conditions of
private property is not always, or even as a rule, of a fine or wonderful type, and that the poor, if they have not culture and charm, have still many virtues.
To this inquiry the
private answer of the Chief Inspector, so
private that it was never shaped into audible words, was:
However, it is the tall one, the one of the
private lessons, that is the most remarkable.
"Did you yourself ever recommend arsenic, or mention it casually, in the course of the
private conversations which you have described?"
Some of your servants were to have
private orders to strew a poisonous juice on your shirts and sheets, which would soon make you tear your own flesh, and die in the utmost torture.
Grimy sailors came down out of the foretop placidly announcing themselves as "a handful of
private citizens of America, traveling simply for recreation and unostentatiously," etc.; the coal passers moved to their duties in the profound depths of the ship, explaining the blackness of their faces and their uncouthness of dress, with the reminder that they were "a handful of
private citizens, traveling simply for recreation," etc., and when the cry rang through the vessel at midnight: "EIGHT BELLS!--LARBOARD WATCH, TURN OUT!" the larboard watch came gaping and stretching out of their den, with the everlasting formula: "Aye-aye, sir!
Everything, of course, is in code, yet we know this for a fact: a good deal of
private information passing between the Admiral and his commanders was known in Germany three hours after the signals themselves had been given.
How strange was this miracle of fame, I pondered, this strange apotheosis by which a mere
private name becomes a public symbol!