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Example sentences for "public character"

  • This daring violation of the laws requires the more attention, as it is by a foreigner clothed with a public character, arrogating an unfounded right to admiralty jurisdiction, and probably meaning to assert it by this act of force.

  • The business confided to him was well done; but he assumed no public character, and carefully avoided all display.

  • He had formerly resided at the Hague in a public character, and had then succeeded in obtaining a large share of William's confidence.

  • Adda did not yet assume a public character.

  • Freckles, my boy, was a kind of a public character, too.

  • And the next day I had bit that lion and was a Public Character, and fame came so sudden I scarcely knew how to act.

  • Your having no public character, together with our avowed contempt for rank and idle ceremony, will greatly facilitate your intercourse with them, and enable you to efface the ill impressions they daily receive of us from our enemies.

  • I stand now in an honorable light, openly and candidly demanding an answer in my public character.

  • To appear in a public character, for a purpose not generally deemed of the utmost importance, would not only be unpleasant to himself, but might diminish his capacity to be useful on occasions which subsequent events might produce.

  • Among the incidents that have been overlooked is one both extraordinary and melancholy, and forming an honourable comment on Mr. Sheridan’s public character.

  • But here my eulogy must close; for, with regard to public character, his lordship must, I fear, be pronounced corrupt.

  • Of his subsequent progress I know nothing till about the year 1790, when I became a public character, and found Giffard an attachĂ© to the Castle in divers capacities.

  • As this will probably be the last letter, which I shall have the pleasure of writing to you in my public character, I beg leave to remind you of the affairs of the Alliance and the Bon Homme Richard, which are still unsettled.

  • Walterstorff, who will probably be sent in a public character to Congress, has also expressed his wish, that my grandson may be sent to Denmark.

  • The Count de Florida Blanca has engaged to take such measures, as that Mr Jay shall not be personally exposed, which, without the interference of the Court, might be the case, as he is not acknowledged in a public character.

  • I apprehended that it would be improper for me to act longer in a public character, after the acknowledgment by Great Britain, without being received in all respects as such.

  • The Dutch Minister sent for me immediately after receiving advice, that Friesland had resolved to admit Mr Adams in a public character, and told me he had not the least doubt of the other provinces doing the same.

  • In the last I advised you, that this Court had consented to receive me in a public character, and as such I had been formally invited to dine with the corps diplomatique, at the Count de Florida Blanca's table.

  • In little more than forty days he ceases to be a public character.

  • Confound it, I'm a respectable man--a public character, by George!

  • My dear Mr Varden, you are quite a public character, and live in all men's thoughts most deservedly.

  • Oh dear me, what a thing it is to be a public character!

  • You behold in me, not a private individual, but a public character; not a mender of locks, but a healer of the wounds of his unhappy country.

  • The Quaker women, independently of their private, have that which no other body of women have, a public character.

  • Quaker women have a public character--Influence of this upon their minds.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another party; fancy that; just happened; public assembly; public authority; public conveyances; public debt; public enemy; public entry; public expense; public finance; public functionaries; public interest; public lands; public letter; public moneys; public opinion; public performance; public property; public prosecutor; public resort; public sector; public sentiment; public taste; public worship; shall remain