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Example sentences for "incognito"

Lexicographically close words:
inclusive; inclusively; inclusiveness; inclyta; incognita; incoherence; incoherences; incoherencies; incoherency; incoherent
  1. On the north side of the platform sat the King and Queen incognito in a tribune supposed to be private; whilst the corporation of London were ranged on the opposite side.

  2. By the canon law previous to 1533 no difference had been made between legitimate and illegitimate intercourse so far as concerned the forbidden degrees of affinity between husband and wife.

  3. She had caused him no end of trouble, and had obstinately refused the reasonable request of his Privy Council.

  4. The King, beside himself with rage, could do no more than warn Katharine's household that they must all treat their mistress as Princess of Wales, or suffer the penalty.

  5. Wait," and the Monsieur Incognito put out his hand.

  6. Had she been about to confess, as he had at first conjectured, that Miss Armitage was an incognito used to satisfy the Press reporter and so avoid publicity?

  7. But that headline you introduced about Mrs. Weatherbee's incognito struck him right.

  8. And, half-way down the page, "Mrs. Weatherbee modestly assumes an incognito when interviewed by a representative of the Press.

  9. Could we trust any one with our secret, our fare would probably be all the better; but my uncle thought it most prudent to maintain a strict incognito until he had ascertained the true state of things in the town.

  10. Well, all that was very foolish, as you will find when you pay your incognito visit to Ravensnest.

  11. There was one instant, notwithstanding, while two Injins were assisting Mary Warren to jump from the wagon, when my incognito was in great danger.

  12. The Comte de Provence (to give him his real name) had fixed his abode in Verona towards the end of the year 1794, under the incognito of "Comte de Lille.

  13. The incognito of an inn is one of its striking privileges--'lord of one's self, uncumbered with a name.

  14. I conceive that an actor, on account of the very circumstances of his profession, ought to keep himself as much incognito as possible.

  15. My first counsel was, that he should live incognito under a borrowed name.

  16. First he implored, and wept, and conjured me to trust him, and to lay aside my incognito before him, the truest and best of royalists.

  17. Yes, Fouche knows that this incognito extends over you like a net, from which you never will escape.

  18. Being born, or becoming a member of settled society, he joins in the ordinary amusements or occupations of his fellow-creatures of both races; which he does the more readily when he feels conscious of the incognito which he bears.

  19. The secret being out, the incognito of your race goes for nothing.

  20. On the other hand, there is the prejudice of caste towards the name, which those bearing it escape, only, by assuming an incognito among their fellow-creatures.

  21. A very few hours added amazingly to the catalogue of things that were not as they had been: a list so extensive and impressive that he made up his mind to maintain his incognito for a few days, until familiar with the ways of his home.

  22. She was also said to have gone abroad, sailing incognito by a second-class steamship from Philadelphia.

  23. He had just involuntarily meddled with the incognito the latter seemed anxious to preserve, and the exquisite politeness of the old gentleman reproached him bitterly for such a fault.

  24. Please believe that I was about to promise to do what I could to respect your incognito when this gentleman intervened.

  25. It is most important that the Prince's incognito be strictly preserved until to-night.

  26. I am travelling incognito upon official business, and in public you are not to know me.

  27. Incognito or out of it, he is my very good friend--no matter if he is an egoist.

  28. You see, I must fly to some place where an incognito will be respected.

  29. Do not forget that the incognito is to be absolute.

  30. I rely upon them to preserve my incognito from all others.

  31. Monseigneur graciously consents that I reveal his incognito to the carabiniere.

  32. Mrs. Goodnough asked, in surprise, for Bessie had confided to her the fact that, as far as possible, she wished to be strictly incognito on the ship.

  33. At my very entry I found that I had a hard nut to crack, for the whole interview was a sort of examination, in {178} which my incognito had to stand a running fire.

  34. In spite of these barbarous usages, in spite of these startling scenes, it was in Khiva and its dependent provinces that I passed, in my incognito as a Dervish, the most agreeable days of my whole journey.

  35. My love of adventure immediately suggested to me the propriety of paying him a visit; but I determined, as a matter of precaution, to keep up my incognito and to appear before him as a dervish.

  36. Mantua having surrendered his state to the King, thereby rendering us a most important service in Italy, found himself ill at ease in his territory, which had become the theatre of war, and had come incognito to Paris.

  37. It should be observed, that Pere Tellier was also incognito at Meudon, and dwelt in a retired room from which he issued to see the King, but never approached the apartments of Monseigneur.

  38. Marechal de Villars was accordingly appointed in his stead under Monseigneur, and with him served the King of England, under his incognito of the previous year, and M.

  39. At Ohlau your face is known, your incognito too.

  40. Then the King said, "Send for your groom of the chambers at once, and tell him to give orders that my incognito be strictly observed.

  41. I saw that he was interested, then touched, and at last was on the point of forgetting his incognito and of appearing in his true character.

  42. The brig was under Danish colours; the incognito of his royal highness was closely kept; we were taken for rich Englishmen.

  43. Monseigneur had freighted a Danish brig at St. Thomas's, and we visited incognito all the settlements of the American coast along which we were sailing.

  44. You are to dine with me in a suite of rooms which I have occupied incognito since I have been at Milan; for you will understand that I could not have my wants attended to at your house, where the place is already taken.

  45. Redegonde had made the conquest of the worthy prince, who was always disposed to gallantry, but felt it his duty during the first year of his marriage with the King of England's sister to preserve some kind of incognito in his amours.

  46. He accosted me and congratulated me on my luck, but I gave him no answer, and seeing that I wished to remain incognito he left me.

  47. But as I wished to keep up my incognito as much as possible, I resolved to reply to all who asked me that important business would prevent my being present.

  48. He asked me to sup with him and the Duc de Deux Pants, who was travelling incognito to Paris to visit Louis XV.

  49. She has good reasons for preserving her incognito here.

  50. When I reached Lausanne I found myself enabled to retain my incognito for a day at any rate.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "incognito" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.