One of the privates was an Australian Millionaire. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil's Writing Dictionary, Part 2...] Reference
Okay, maybe it's not like that for all enforcement agents, but I frequently feel like my privates are alfresco. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: High Five by Janet Evanovich] Reference
I know a few tricks I learnt in the regiment; one of the privates was a professional conjurer and mighty clever when sober. From Wordnik.com. [The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma] Reference
My mother-in-law calls privates, "tootie frogs" I almost fell in the floor with riotous laughter the first time I heard her say it. From Wordnik.com. [Learn Something New Every Day] Reference
I've been a private, bunkie, such as privates seldom are. From Wordnik.com. [Rhymes of the Rookies] Reference
Al Qaeda and most of its allies are now very heavy on "privates," and the number of those they recruit doesn't really matter. From Wordnik.com. [Why Bush (the Elder) cried.] Reference
"Was you come about 'privates'?" asked the little woman wistfully. From Wordnik.com. [Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl] Reference
His colleagues, he said, always welcome "privates," that is, people who are not dealers. From Wordnik.com. [Reflector - Latest Headlines from The Daily Reflector] Reference
When I was but a wee lad, I had a very strange fixation with pregnancy, childbirth, and you know, 'privates'. From Wordnik.com. [reddit.com: what's new online!] Reference
Having someone (who couldn't care less) see an outline of your "privates" or making it safely to your destination?. From Wordnik.com. [marconews.com Stories] Reference
I kept calling privates 'Sir'. From Wordnik.com. [Military Ball] Reference
BOWMAN: You hear that more from privates and corporals. From Wordnik.com. [In Kandahar, Looking To Petraeus On Rules Of Fire] Reference
His fiancee, Anna Paquin, wears a "patch" on her privates. From Wordnik.com. [Alexander Skarsgard: No Sock For Nude 'True Blood' Scenes] Reference
And those four down there holding the flag are just privates. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Some of the higher officers were little better than the privates. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
A non-commissioned officer and ten privates are here all the time. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
The privates of the detachment were like unto the noncommissioned officers. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference
From her bowels and her underdeveloped privates she bawled for her dead mother. From Wordnik.com. [Deer People] Reference
Glosson's intelligence also revealed that the convoy was not solely made up of lowly privates. From Wordnik.com. [The Day We Stopped The War] Reference
Ayres, 10th Cavalry, gave me a detail of one sergeant and two privates, all of whom did fine service. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference
You have your beautiful lieutenant's epaulettes, Violette, do not be too hard upon these poor privates. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"Keep firing" said Strahl as he stood on the bodies of the dead and passed up guns to the two privates. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
There was a girl with her privates showing on a magazine, standing next to a man with his privates showing. From Wordnik.com. [The Game] Reference
For some people, there is nothing funnier in this world than the sight of a man getting hoofed in the privates. From Wordnik.com. [Laughing Until It Hurts] Reference
The problem is, there are already all kinds of policies, and soldiers from privates to generals haven't followed them. From Wordnik.com. [Military Still Failing To Diagnose, Treat Brain Injuries] Reference
So many could receive the pay of non-commissioned officers of the various grades, and the remainder the pay of privates. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The referee, a high-school student named Josh, was less than enthusiastic about having to supervise a bunch of privates. From Wordnik.com. [Weekend Warriors] Reference
"Other regiments have tried to find him in this way, and none of them have succeeded," said one of the privates to Archie. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of a Boy Reporter] Reference
Such is the national mood that genteel Dusseldorfers didn't bat an eye at an 15-foot chancellor with his privates on display. From Wordnik.com. [BAD TO WORSE] Reference
"Tired nature," however, claimed her dues, and one by one, officers and privates at late hours betook themselves to their blankets. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
The expedition was so successful that the aid of some privates was called in to help carry to quarters the rich spoils of the chase. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
The commissioners will issue a gill of whisky, extraordinary, to the non-commissioned officers and privates, upon this joyful occasion. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Pittsburgh] Reference
The inconvenient fact is that people aren't so easily divided in two; their public and privates lives are always connected at some level. From Wordnik.com. [Private Lives, Public Matters] Reference
More than 90 percent of the publics require composition and science, compared to 55 percent and 75 percent, respectively, of the privates. From Wordnik.com. [A's for public universities, F's for privates] Reference
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