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 conversationdoes 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.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "private conversation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
