Someone to whom private matters are confided

Usage examples of intimate.

You needed the joining of flesh and magic in a major intimate way to be beyond the point of safety.

It would be awkward, perhaps ruinous, if Anglesey learned of this most intimate peering.

The lecture hall was a classic seventeenth-century aula resembling the theatres and opera houses of that period: , 136 chaste, intimate, and with perfect acoustics.

In 1892 he was appointed agent to the governor-general in Baluchistan, in succession to Sir Robert Sandeman, his intimate experience of the Baluchis, gained during his railway work, having specially fitted him for this post.

In the course of his trade to India, he had formed very intimate connections with the Saracens and the Blemmyes, whose situation on either coast of the Red Sea gave them an easy introduction into the Upper Egypt.

In the early spring of 1919, when Hungary was being invaded by Czecho-Slovak troops, Italians and Rumanians, and was threatened with an invasion from the Allies Count Karolyi fled and the government fell into the hands of the radical Socialist, Bela Kun, who soon established intimate relations with the Bolshevist government at Moscow.

The baring of the five beautiful bottoms followed by intimate inspection of the naked cheeks.

He knew, by a little reflection, that this must be cattle country, for the brakie had intimated as much in their talk just before dusk.

Despite her suffering, poor Maude, recognizing the shameless display she had just made of herself, clapped her left palm over the intimate hollow to hide it from him, and was promptly rewarded with another magisterial stroke of the rod, this one switching fiercely across the broadest, most resilient curves of both her bottomcheeks.

Mr Wharton had declared calumniously more than once to an intimate friend,--had not an H in his vocabulary.

Only William Cecil, her longtime advisor, was sure enough of his welcome to interrupt the intimate talk between the two childhood friends.

Familiar faces hove into view, some known personally, some known at the intimate remove of modern celebrityhood, local media types tanned and satisfied, a sprinkling of higher-magnitude stars down from the mountain in Aspen, the socialite grouper fish, the trolling politicos, and the renowned and endowed from the glamorous world of adult entertainment, all the well-connected folk you could ever hope to rig a hot wire to.

Chemistry and Physics only deal with them as exhibiting statistical complexes of the effects of their more intimate laws.

Conde, which, however, upon Anglo-Saxon tongues, had been promptly modified to Condy, or even, among his familiar and intimate friends, to Conny.

With his sister alone had he remained intimate, and it was a secret plan of his that she, who loved music, unlike himself, and could play movingly on the violin, should be sent next year to study at the Conservatorium, despite the great expense that would entail, which must be made up in some other way.