public

We have so much money that we will not be allowed to disappoint the public.

From the palace you could see the rows and rows of roofless houses that made up the city looking like empty honeycombs filled with blackness; the shapeless block of stone that had been an idol in the square where four roads met; the pits and dimples at street corners where the public wells once stood, and the shattered domes of temples with wild figs sprouting on their sides.

I’ve recited so often in public I don’t mind at all now.

Often as she had recited in public, she had never before faced such an audience as this, and the sight of it paralyzed her energies completely.