"Personal business" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that. He's lost a good government job and with it all his pension and retirement rights. And how? By simply having an accident with a government helicopter when he was using it on a combination of government and personal business. ...
— Take the Reason Prisoner • John Joseph McGuire
... George his brother, and a certain James Douglas of Parkhead, who was the captain of the guard. When Angus had been gone a day or two, the elder of these guardians asked leave of the King, according to the formula, to go to Dundee upon personal business of his own; and George Douglas rode off to St. Andrews to see the Bishop on a question of taxes, leaving only the captain and his hundred guardsmen to be accounted for. Who can doubt that young James was well ...
— Royal Edinburgh - Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets • Margaret Oliphant |
