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  • Trillian was a girl that Zaphod had picked up recently while visiting a planet, just for fun, incognito.†   (source)
  • They had tried arriving unannounced and traveling incognito but they were not spies and the efforts were pitiful.†   (source)
  • Archduke Francis Ferdinand, described by an escort as being "half-boor, half-tightwad," roamed the grounds incognito—but much preferred the vice districts of Chicago.†   (source)
  • In any case, Nessie is going to have to be incognito off and on in the next few weeks.†   (source)
  • His incognito tour only confirmed his hunches about what was going on in Clarkston.†   (source)
  • I could not believe I had to go incognito on a school field trip.†   (source)
  • Later on, Mr. Brown was surprised traveling incognito, in a third-class coach and they made him sign another copy of the demands.†   (source)
  • "I thought I was being incognito," I say.†   (source)
  • Incognito, that's how Brad lives, and that's good.†   (source)
  • The radio was ablast with call-in voices, they're griping, they're spraying spit, it's the sidewalk salvo and rap, and he imagined a long queue of underground souls waiting to enter the broadcast band and speak the incognito news.†   (source)
  • It would be best if I went incognito.†   (source)
  • I suppose in that case, it would make sense to be incognito—to pose as the least likely person anyone would ever assume to be the Messiah.†   (source)
  • "Except that I would have changed my name and dyed my hair and would be living incognito somewhere to avoid the embarrassment of having a ruthless, power-crazy Dr. Frankenstein for a mother," I pointed out.†   (source)
  • I'm traveling incognito, you do know what I mean.†   (source)
  • I came here very much incognito.†   (source)
  • If his son wants to remain incognito, then that's as it should be, he can't see him and that's all there is to it.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure that's how incognito works, but okay.†   (source)
  • And what Peter the Great did when he traveled through Europe incognito!†   (source)
  • I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito."†   (source)
  • He was supposed to be incognito or something.†   (source)
  • But here's the part she has surely failed to imagine: once they're in the States, she'll be incognito.†   (source)
  • I am incognito.†   (source)
  • I'm incognito.†   (source)
  • In the afternoon of her first day in Chicago, Tuesday, June 6, the infanta had slipped out of her hotel incognito, accompanied by her lady-in-waiting and an aide appointed by President Cleveland.†   (source)
  • Is she incognito, too?†   (source)
  • I poke up my face, barely over the seat, look out the back window, fingers crossed I remain incognito.†   (source)
  • Brendan had heard of a private treatment center in Minneapolis, he thought, where the rich sought help incognito; he would refine the details in the morning and call him, naturally expecting a second payment for his services.†   (source)
  • His new shield, with the blazon of his incognito, was propped in front of him.†   (source)
  • Maybe the Old Man will shake the GPU by traveling incognito around the country.†   (source)
  • Do you seriously think you can stay here incognito with this wench, and still be yourself?†   (source)
  • She wouldn't let him come, so he ran away and came incognito.†   (source)
  • There was another silence, broken at length by Miss Brinklow's shrill voice: "I'm sure I don't know who you are, Mr. Barnard, though I must say I guessed all along you were traveling incognito."†   (source)
  • Chance: She's travelling incognito.†   (source)
  • She was a heavily built and quietly dressed woman of thirty-nine years, touched with that slightly comic primness—that careful gentility—that marks the conduct of the prostitute incognito.†   (source)
  • Duke Gant of Westmoreland, Viscount Pondicherry, twelfth Lord Runnymede, who hunts for true love, incognito, in Devon and ripe grain, and finds the calico white legs embedded in sweet hay.†   (source)
  • He said, "If the Old Man is going to travel incognito as a visitor to Mexico he's going to need a nephew from the States."†   (source)
  • "Madam," he said eventually, "you're not only a smart detective, but you've hit on a really polite name for my present position, I'm traveling incognito.†   (source)
  • What do you mean, incognito?†   (source)
  • It had been arranged that Lancelot was to live incognito —because, if it were allowed to get about that he was still living and lodged at Bliant Castle, there would only be a hue-and-cry for him from the court.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XXVII — THE YANKEE AND THE KING TRAVEL INCOGNITO†   (source)
  • I have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting you.†   (source)
  • His incognito, which had as many holes as a sieve, was not meant to hide a personality but a fact.†   (source)
  • "Will your excellency give your name, or remain incognito?" asked the captain.†   (source)
  • Curiosity had vanquished the desire of preserving his incognito, and he was recognized.†   (source)
  • Even fortunes supposed to be independent of the market either betrayed a secret dependence on it, or suffered from a sympathetic affection: fashion sulked in its country houses, or came to town incognito, general entertainments were discountenanced, and informality and short dinners became the fashion.†   (source)
  • She thought that possibly Aglaya, or at any rate someone sent by her, would be present incognito at the ceremony, or in the crowd, and she wished to be prepared for this eventuality.†   (source)
  • Swann the younger came often to see them at Combray, my great-aunt and grandparents never suspected that he had entirely ceased to live in the kind of society which his family had frequented, or that, under the sort of incognito which the name of Swann gave him among us, they were harbouring—with the complete innocence of a family of honest innkeepers who have in their midst some distinguished highwayman and never know it—one of the smartest members of the Jockey Club, a particular friend of the Comte de Paris and of the Prince of Wales, and one of the men most sought after in the aristocratic world of the Faubourg Saint-Germain.†   (source)
  • At length Adelaida burst out laughing, apologized, and explained that they had come incognito; from which, and from the circumstance that they said nothing about the prince's either walking back with them or coming to see them later on, the latter inferred that he was in Mrs. Epanchin's black books.†   (source)
  • When the fact broke through the incognito he would leave suddenly the seaport where he happened to be at the time and go to another—generally farther east.†   (source)
  • His relations with the Comte de Paris, which, when I heard them discussed at Combray, seemed to me unimportant, became now in my eyes something marvellous, as if no one else had ever known the House of Orleans; they set him in vivid detachment against the vulgar background of pedestrians of different classes, who encumbered that particular path in the Champs-Elysees, in the midst of whom I admired his condescending to figure without claiming any special deference, which as it happened none of them dreamed of paying him, so profound was the incognito in which he was wrapped.†   (source)
  • Afterwards, when his keen perception of the Intolerable drove him away for good from seaports and white men, even into the virgin forest, the Malays of the jungle village, where he had elected to conceal his deplorable faculty, added a word to the monosyllable of his incognito.†   (source)
  • I had been told that I should see in the alley certain women of fashion, who, in spite of their not all having husbands, were constantly mentioned in conjunction with Mme. Swann, but most often by their professional names;—their new names, when they had any, being but a sort of incognito, a veil which those who would speak of them were careful to draw aside, so as to make themselves understood.†   (source)
  • "A Frenchman or a Russian prince incognito," said the officer, looking at Pierre's fine though dirty linen and at the ring on his finger.†   (source)
  • The Disinherited Knight refused all other assistance save that of his own squire, or rather yeoman—a clownish-looking man, who, wrapt in a cloak of dark-coloured felt, and having his head and face half-buried in a Norman bonnet made of black fur, seemed to affect the incognito as much as his master.†   (source)
  • He will lie—that is, the man who is a special case, the incognito, and he will lie well, in the cleverest fashion; you might think he would triumph and enjoy the fruits of his wit, but at the most interesting, the most flagrant moment he will faint.†   (source)
  • Mavriky Mavrikyevitch did as he was told, preserving his incognito, and giving no one but his old acquaintance, Trifon Borissovitch, the slightest hint of his secret business.†   (source)
  • Maybe it will begin to revenge itself, too, but, as it were, piecemeal, in trivial ways, from behind the stove, incognito, without believing either in its own right to vengeance, or in the success of its revenge, knowing that from all its efforts at revenge it will suffer a hundred times more than he on whom it revenges itself, while he, I daresay, will not even scratch himself.†   (source)
  • MEPHISTOPHELES
    I'm mostly used, 'tis true, to go incognito,
    But on a gala-day one may his orders show.†   (source)
  • Bob knew, directly he saw a bird's egg, whether it was a swallow's, or a tomtit's, or a yellow-hammer's; he found out all the wasps' nests, and could set all sort of traps; he could climb the trees like a squirrel, and had quite a magical power of detecting hedgehogs and stoats; and he had courage to do things that were rather naughty, such as making gaps in the hedgerows, throwing stones after the sheep, and killing a cat that was wandering incognito.†   (source)
  • Seeing her thus, it was easy to understand how the once fair widow of the princely Hur had been able to maintain her incognito so well through such a period of years.†   (source)
  • "Then I must trouble you to give him my card," Alexey Alexandrovitch said with dignity, seeing the impossibility of preserving his incognito.†   (source)
  • The black horses of the Musketeers, their martial carriage, with the regimental step of these noble companions of the soldier, would have betrayed the most strict incognito.†   (source)
  • Oh, then he would bear her away at once, as far, far away as possible; to the farthest end of Russia, if not of the earth, then he would marry her, and settle down with her incognito, so that no one would know anything about them, there, here, or anywhere.†   (source)
  • The marshals were perfectly satisfied by this reply; for amidst the frequent and capricious vows by which knights were accustomed to bind themselves in the days of chivalry, there were none more common than those by which they engaged to remain incognito for a certain space, or until some particular adventure was achieved.†   (source)
  • During this time nothing new occurred in the camp at La Rochelle; only the king, who was bored, as always, but perhaps a little more so in camp than elsewhere, resolved to go incognito and spend the festival of St. Louis at St. Germain, and asked the cardinal to order him an escort of only twenty Musketeers.†   (source)
  • "I should avail myself of your offer with pleasure," replied the host, "but, unfortunately, if I go there, it will be, in all probability, incognito."†   (source)
  • The Eastern tale-teller has for his theme the disguised expeditions of Haroun Alraschid with his faithful attendants, Mesrour and Giafar, through the midnight streets of Bagdad; and Scottish tradition dwells upon the similar exploits of James V., distinguished during such excursions by the travelling name of the Goodman of Ballengeigh, as the Commander of the Faithful, when he desired to be incognito, was known by that of Il Bondocani.†   (source)
  • As the romance is imperfect, we are not acquainted how the discovery takes place; but it is probably much in the same manner as in other narratives turning on the same subject, where the host, apprehensive of death for having trespassed on the respect due to his Sovereign, while incognito, is agreeably surprised by receiving honours and reward.†   (source)
  • Have you any objection to meet any persons who may be with madame, or do you desire to preserve a strict incognito?†   (source)
  • Contrary to custom, this gentleman had not been watched, for as the report ran that he was a person of high rank, and one who would allow no impertinent interference, his incognito was strictly respected.†   (source)
  • At night the young Lord was conducted incognito into our apartment, where his father presented him to me.†   (source)
  • But I defy the treasurer, or his two informers (I will name them, and let them make the best of it) Clustril and Drunlo, to prove that any person ever came to me incognito, except the secretary Reldresal, who was sent by express command of his imperial majesty, as I have before related.†   (source)
  • —"Nay, sir," answered Benjamin, "I would not be troublesome; and I hope you don't think me a man of an impertinent curiosity, for that is a vice which nobody can lay to my charge; but I ask pardon; for when a gentleman of your figure travels without his servants, we may suppose him to be, as we say, in casu incognito, and perhaps I ought not to have mentioned your name."†   (source)
  • I dismissed my old man here, and stayed incognito for three or four days in Colchester, and then took a passage in a waggon, because I would not venture being seen in the Harwich coaches.†   (source)
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