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In private   /ɪn prˈaɪvət/   Listen
In private

adverb
1.
Kept private or confined to those intimately concerned.  Synonyms: in camera, privately.  "Privately, she thought differently" , "Some member of his own party hoped privately for his defeat" , "He was questioned in private"






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"In private" Quotes from Famous Books



... Hospitals often engage their graduates to return for private cases. A usual charge for a graduate nurse is from twenty-one to thirty-five dollars a week according to the nature of the case. A nurse in private work cannot work uninterruptedly throughout the year. Her name is on a nurses' registry, which is generally conducted by an association of nurses or by a private individual. Returns from these registries show that the average nurse is employed about ten months in the year. Many graduate nurses ...
— The Canadian Girl at Work - A Book of Vocational Guidance • Marjory MacMurchy

... was indeed little reason to complain of want of appetite in any of my guests. As the women are not allowed to eat in presence of the men, Iddeah dined with some of her companions about an hour afterwards, in private, except her husband, Tinah, favoured them with his company, and seemed to have entirely forgotten that he had dined already." The capabilities of Tinah's stomach, it seems, were of very common acquirement at Otaheite. "They have not always regular ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 12 • Robert Kerr

... had spoken to Maria again and again, kindly and in private, about this same piece of ill-manners, and the girl had paid no heed to it. There seemed nothing to be left to her but the public rebuke, which, wounding, ...
— Miss Ashton's New Pupil - A School Girl's Story • Mrs. S. S. Robbins

... Christopher Hatton's nephew, Coke lived in his chambers, working at cases and writing the books which are still carefully studied by every young man who wishes to make himself a master of our law. In private they had perpetual squabbles, and they quarrelled with equal virulence and indecency before the world. The matrimonial settlement of their only and ill-starred daughter was the occasion of an outbreak ...
— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson

... yet there was a spectre grim, A skeleton in Savitri's heart, Looming in shadow, somewhat dim, But which would never thence depart. It was that fatal, fatal speech Of Narad Muni. As the days Slipt smoothly past, each after each, In private she more fervent prays. But there is none to share her fears, For how could she communicate The sad cause of her bidden tears? The doom ...
— Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan • Toru Dutt


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