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Example sentences for "private conversation"

  • Macaulay was the second; and he forthwith cut the matter short by declaring that, on principle, he refused to disclose what had passed in private conversation; a sentiment which was actually cheered by the Committee.

  • Maclaine informed Dugald Stewart, in private conversation, of Smith's fondness for mathematics in those early days.

  • Carlyle's statement is confirmed by the remarks of certain of Smith's other friends who speak incidentally of the amusing inconsistencies in which he indulged in private conversation.

  • In private conversation, on the contrary, all is altered.

  • Those of the aboriginal race who excel in private conversation, become to their tribes oral chroniclers, and are relied on for historical traditions as well as tales.

  • A drift of thought--an elevation of style, is observable in their public speaking which is dropt in private conversation.

  • Queens and Heroines preserve their Rank in private Conversation, while those who are Waiting-Women and Maids of Honour upon the Stage, keep their Distance also behind the Scenes.

  • The stately young knight whom it conveyed had landed, and presented himself with much pomp to the warden of Toensberg House, with whom he had held a private conversation.

  • In private conversation he was a very interesting man.

  • Only in private conversation does he allow himself the use of the familiar Du.

  • And most of his talk was with little groups of men, much of it even in private conversation.

  • He says almost every lawyer in that body acknowledged, in private conversation, that the decision by which the women had been disfranchised was illegal.

  • Perfectly at home on the platform, she would indulge in the same informality of remarks which others use in private conversation, but always with a quick wit, a fine satire and a keen discrimination.

  • One thing is certain, she overheard a good deal more of that 'private conversation' than she was willing to admit.

  • Not one stray word or phrase to make you realize that it was a private conversation?

  • But excuse me, Mrs. Cavendish, although you realized it was a private conversation, you did not move away?

  • It was a dangerous thing to contradict the Man of Geneva, and doubly so, surely, when one had had the advantage of correction from him in a private conversation; and Knox had his little flock of English refugees to consider.

  • Black Michael" is the nickname familiarly applied to Sir Michael Hicks-Beach in private conversation by the members of the House of Commons, and the nickname has found its way into the columns of "Punch" and other periodicals.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    either real; great blessing; mercantile business; paper read; private affairs; private audience; private banks; private cabinet; private collection; private contract; private conversation; private detective; private enterprise; private estate; private families; private interest; private judgment; private matter; private member; private opinion; private persons; private residence; private secretary; say that; taken aback; thought transference