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Example sentences for "private letters"

  • But in reality the sending of private letters by messenger also carrying an official pouch was no novelty.

  • In the case of private letters we have less proof.

  • Private Letters Of The First Dynasty Of Babylon V.

  • There are some late arrivals from France, but no private letters.

  • The present is believed to be the first attempt, in the United States, to lay before the public a series of private letters, written without the remotest idea of publication, by a woman, to her husband.

  • Last week a packet arrived from Brest with dispatches for Congress, but no private letters.

  • The Attorney-General gave his opinion that whatever rights Stanhope and the Porters had, they certainly had no claim to the proceeds from the carriage of private letters.

  • Convinced that the carriage of private letters must be placed upon a secure footing, he laid the foundation for the system of postal rates and regulations, which continued to the time of national penny postage.

  • He introduced the first legal provision for the carriage of private letters at fixed rates, greatly increased the speed of the posts, and above all made the Post Office a financial success.

  • Not the least onerous of the doctor's duties was the deciphering of private letters found in prizes, a channel by which important public interests are often betrayed.

  • Like McClellan's private letters, these dispatches told more of the writer's mind and heart than would willingly have been made public.

  • The king's private letters in the Clarendon Papers have convinced me of his mistaken conscientiousness about church government; but of this his contemporaries could not be aware.

  • It appears by Clarendon's private letters that he had expected to see Cromwell assume the title of king from the year 1654.

  • But who has any right to ask for Allingham’s private letters?

  • Strangely enough, these rights are recognized more fully in the literary arena than anywhere else, and among them the chief appears to be that of reading an author’s private letters.

  • Rossetti, who was strongly against the printing of private letters, had the wholesome practice of burning all his correspondence.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both chief; calcium salts; class system; daughter dear; hostile heroes; national reputation; private armed; private banks; private business; private capital; private citizens; private collections; private company; private conversation; private enterprise; private gentleman; private individual; private interests; private marriage; private parties; private room; private schools; private station; privately owned; short note; the flesh