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Privates

noun

External sex organ. Synonyms: crotch, genital organ, genitalia, genitals, private parts.

Private

noun

An enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines. Synonyms: buck private, common soldier.

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... If the nurse is a trained graduate nurse a few directions will suffice. If she is not a trained nurse the physician should be explicit in his instructions. It would be better if he actually showed her just how he wanted this work done. The best way to cleanse the vulvae or privates is to take an ordinary douche bag at the proper height (about three feet) and allow the solution (1 to 2,000 bichlorid) to run over the parts into the douche pan, but do not touch any part of the patient with the nozzle of ...

— The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • W. Grant Hague, M.D.

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... on which to write notes. Nor could they have known that you were locked up in here unless someone told them. But to come back to the point. Those impudent rascals say in their letter that they have heard of your close imprisonment and that they are retaliating on Privates ...

— The Border Watch - A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand • Joseph A. Altsheler

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... privates in the nth regiment, Aladdin was major, and John was colonel. If any of them had the slightest military knowledge, it was Aladdin. Not in vain had he mastered the encyclopedia from Safety-lamps to Stranglers. He could explain with strange words and in long, balanced sentences everything about the ...

— Aladdin O'Brien • Gouverneur Morris

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... outlying districts—managed to furnish a company for the State regiment. One or two prominent citizens had been lured by commissions as officers; but neither of the two Rivermouthians who went in as privates was of the slightest civic importance. One of these ...

— The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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... door of the Custom-house. He sought admittance, but those within were afraid of opening the door, and the sentinel then shouted for assistance to the main guard which was within hearing. A corporal and six privates were sent by Captain Preston to his rescue, while he followed at a short distance. Their guns were unloaded; but as they advanced, they found the mob increasing, and were pelted so pitilessly by them on every hand, and so grossly insulted by opprobrious ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

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