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unofficial

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enlisted man

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Synonyms for private

belonging to, relating to, or affecting a particular person

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belonging or confined to a particular person or group as opposed to the public or the government

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known about by very few

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an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines

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confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy

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concerning things deeply private and personal

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concerning one person exclusively

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not expressed

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Private Dormer was certainly "'orrid bad." He had all but reached the stage of collapse, and was not pleasant to look upon.
Private Dormer was allowed to celebrate his repulse of Death by strong waters.
Private Conklin sat on a turned-down bucket, and listened to a not unfamiliar tune.
And the Hospital Orderly was so satisfied with the justice of the punishment that he did not even order Private Dormer back to his cot.
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This the private managed to do, waiting until a time when he was nearest the ground and then letting himself drop upon the Scarecrow.
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For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.
Private property has crushed true Individualism, and set up an Individualism that is false.
With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism.
Jesus moved in a community that allowed the accumulation of private property just as ours does, and the gospel that he preached was not that in such a community it is an advantage for a man to live on scanty, unwholesome food, to wear ragged, unwholesome clothes, to sleep in horrid, unwholesome dwellings, and a disadvantage for a man to live under healthy, pleasant, and decent conditions.
With the abolition of private property, marriage in its present form must disappear.
When private property is abolished there will be no necessity for crime, no demand for it; it will cease to exist.
And it is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologise to one in private for what they have written against one in public.
The tyranny that it proposes to exercise over people's private lives seems to me to be quite extraordinary.
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"I leave to your prudence what measures you will take; and to avoid suspicion, I must immediately return in as private a manner as I came."
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To these great examples I wish to add a lesser one; still it bears some resemblance to them, and I wish it to suffice me for all of a like kind: it is Hiero the Syracusan.[*] This man rose from a private station to be Prince of Syracuse, nor did he, either, owe anything to fortune but opportunity; for the Syracusans, being oppressed, chose him for their captain, afterwards he was rewarded by being made their prince.
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