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  • At that mysterious colored church, the one with the two towers and the two privies to the rear, that stood all in darkness, a new friend sat straight up on the top church step.†   (source)
  • You think none but your sheets are privy to your wishes.   (source)
  • It is difficult to vote wisely when I am not privy to all of the intelligence reports.
  • privy to the details of the conspiracy
  • Come, let us go somewhere we can speak more privily.†   (source)
  • I will hear Ser Brynden privily, in the audience chamber.†   (source)
  • Said he didn't mind going to Egypt, which was what everybody in town called privies.†   (source)
  • Perhaps we should speak more privily, Your Grace?†   (source)
  • Building more barracks, more privies.†   (source)
  • Mayhaps we could consult privily?†   (source)
  • I have tidings I know you will be anxious to hear, sweet sister, but they are best spoken of privily.†   (source)
  • Besides how she felt about Miss Love, there was how she felt about kerosene lamps, well water, and privies.†   (source)
  • Hurrying by the factory, I came to where the mill hands lived in close-together little shotgun houses — three rooms in a row, like long boxes, with public wells and privies that served two or three houses each.†   (source)
  • Sears, Roebuck catalogues perform their classic function in the crudely built privies, which sit, half-hidden, in the tall grasses behind the shacks.†   (source)
  • …Beaumains, and then she called unto her Sir Gringamore her brother, and prayed him in all manner, as he loved her heartily, that he would ride after Sir Beaumains: And ever have ye wait upon him till ye may find him sleeping, for I am sure in his heaviness he will alight down in some place, and lie him down to sleep; and therefore have ye your wait upon him, and in the priviest manner ye can, take his dwarf, and go ye your way with him as fast as ever ye may or Sir Beaumains awake.†   (source)
  • And when he came to the sea he sent home the footmen again, and took no more with him but ten thousand men on horseback, the most part men of arms, and so shipped and passed the sea into England, and landed at Dover; and through the wit of Merlin, he had the host northward, the priviest way that could be thought, unto the forest of Bedegraine, and there in a valley he lodged them secretly.†   (source)
  • They paste stickers on parked windshields and in public privies.†   (source)
  • The king consulted with his wazir, and the minister advised: 0 king, wait another year and, if after that thou be minded to speak to him on the matter of marriage, speak not to him privily, but address him on a day of state, when all the emirs and wazirs are present with the whole of the army standing before thee.†   (source)
  • There was a chill wind blowing, and as she passed there came to her nose the mingled smells of wood smoke, frying pork and untended privies.†   (source)
  • At last a white policeman was stationed behind the privies to keep the children away and our course in human anatomy was postponed.†   (source)
  • Of a summer morning, when my mother had gone to work, Iwould follow a crowd of black children—abandoned for the day by their working parents—to the bottom of a sloping hill whose top held a long row of ramshackle, wooden outdoor privies whose opened rear ends provided a raw and startling view.†   (source)
  • Privily Clif complained to Martin, "Darn him, he acts like I was a worm.†   (source)
  • It made him feel superior; it enabled him to sneer privily at the Martin Lumsen development, Avonlea, which had a cesspool; and it provided a chorus for the full-page advertisements in which he announced the beauty, convenience, cheapness, and supererogatory healthfulness of Glen Oriole.†   (source)
  • But for me to turn to the friend who certainly loved me, and say to him: "You are in great danger, I am in but little; your friendship is a burden; go, take your risks and bear your hardships alone——" no, that was impossible; and even to think of it privily to myself, made my cheeks to burn.†   (source)
  • A few minutes later the mate came fumbling about in search of it, but I returned it privily to Leach next day.†   (source)
  • Rest assured that His Majesty will be delighted to know that in a time when his hard tack is not sought for by sailors with such avidity as should be; a time also when some shipmasters privily resent the borrowing from them a tar or two for the service; His Majesty, I say, will be delighted to learn that one shipmaster at least cheerfully surrenders to the King, the flower of his flock, a sailor who with equal loyalty makes no dissent.†   (source)
  • One evening when Tanis was at the theater, Babbitt found himself being lively with the Doppelbraus, pledging friendship with men whom he had for years privily denounced to Mrs. Babbitt as a "rotten bunch of tin-horns that I wouldn't go out with, rot if they were the last people on earth."†   (source)
  • George William Vertigan insisted in debate, and afterward privily to Sir Robert Fairlamb, that rats destroy food and perhaps spread disease, and His Excellency must veto the bill.†   (source)
  • …of the sort called "practical"; not once did he cease warring on the post hoc propter hoc conclusions which still make up most medical lore; not once did he fail to be hated by his colleagues, who were respectful to his face, uncomfortable in feeling his ironic power, but privily joyous to call him Mephisto, Diabolist, Killjoy, Pessimist, Destructive Critic, Flippant Cynic, Scientific Bounder Lacking in Dignity and Seriousness, Intellectual Snob, Pacifist, Anarchist, Atheist, Jew.†   (source)
  • …the treacherous wall of Hougomont, to the sunken road of Ohain, to Grouchy's delay, to Blucher's arrival, to be Irony itself in the tomb, to act so as to stand upright though fallen, to drown in two syllables the European coalition, to offer kings privies which the Caesars once knew, to make the lowest of words the most lofty by entwining with it the glory of France, insolently to end Waterloo with Mardigras, to finish Leonidas with Rabellais, to set the crown on this victory by a word…†   (source)
  • On being excluded, the old ladies changed their tone, and cried through the keyhole that old Sally was drunk; which, indeed, was not unlikely; since, in addition to a moderate dose of opium prescribed by the apothecary, she was labouring under the effects of a final taste of gin-and-water which had been privily administered, in the openness of their hearts, by the worthy old ladies themselves.†   (source)
  • And so privily she sent the letter unto Sir Launcelot.†   (source)
  • But Anglides privily gat her husband's doublet and his shirt, and that she kept secretly.†   (source)
  • I may never believe, said Palomides, that King Arthur will ride so privily as a poor errant knight.†   (source)
  • And then anon that damosel picked her away privily, that no man wist where she was become.†   (source)
  • And then the good Prince Boudwin, at the landing, he raised the country privily and hastily.†   (source)
  • And when mass was done the king and the queen opened the letters privily by themself.†   (source)
  • King Arthur was warned privily, and sent his people to Sessoine, and took up the towns and castles from the Romans.†   (source)
  • But when Galahad saw there would none turn again he stole away privily, so that none wist where he was become.†   (source)
  • And the queen sent privily on her part spies to know what deeds he had done, for great love was between them twain.†   (source)
  • When La Beale Isoud heard how he was missed, privily she went unto Sir Sadok, and prayed him to espy where was Sir Tristram.†   (source)
  • And then he let ordain privily a little vessel, and therein they went, Sir Tristram, Kehydius, Dame Bragwaine, and Gouvernail, Sir Tristram's squire.†   (source)
  • Then said Sir Dinadan privily unto Sir Tristram: Sir, that is Sir Launcelot du Lake that spake unto you first, and the other is my lord King Arthur.†   (source)
  • But there Sir Launcelot was lodged privily by the means of Sir Lavaine with a rich burgess, that no man in that town was ware what they were.†   (source)
  • And when Sir Palamides had received this fall, wit ye well that he was sore ashamed, and as privily as he might he withdrew him out of the field.†   (source)
  • And then privily he wrote unto her letters and ballads of the most goodliest that were used in those days.†   (source)
  • And privily about midnight Sir Percivale came to Aglovale's squire and said: Arise and make thee ready, for ye and I will ride away secretly.†   (source)
  • Then privily and secretly he sent letters unto King Arthur, and unto Queen Guenever, and unto Sir Launcelot.†   (source)
  • This counsel was not so privily kept but it was understood; for they were but young both, and tender of age, and had not used none such crafts to-fore.†   (source)
  • And so I hear the people privily say, for of all women I saw none so fair; and therefore, an thou wilt slay my lady, I doubt not but I shall slay thee and have thy lady.†   (source)
  • And so that night they yede unto rest, and all that night the Green Knight commanded thirty knights privily to watch Beaumains, for to keep him from all treason.†   (source)
  • And so upon a day La Beale Isoud gat a sword privily and bare it to her garden, and there she pight the sword through a plum tree up to the hilt, so that it stuck fast, and it stood breast high.†   (source)
  • When Sir Lionel saw him do thus, he thought to assay him, and made him ready, and stilly and privily he took his horse, and thought not for to awake Sir Launcelot.†   (source)
  • Then Gawaine called privily in council all his brethren, and to them said thus: Fair brethren, here may ye see, whom that we hate King Arthur loveth, and whom that we love he hateth.†   (source)
  • And ofttimes Merlin would have had her privily away by his subtle crafts; then she made him to swear that he should never do none enchantment upon her if he would have his will.†   (source)
  • And then Sir Tristram rode privily unto the postern, where kept him La Beale Isoud, and there she made him good cheer, and thanked God of his good speed.†   (source)
  • And Sir Palomides might not sleep for anguish; and in the dawning of the day he took his horse privily, and rode his way unto Sir Gaheris and unto Sir Sagramore le Desirous, where they were in their pavilions; for they three were fellows at the beginning of the tournament.†   (source)
  • And so he went privily into the court, and saw this adventure, whereof it raised his heart, and he would assay it as other knights did, but for he was poor and poorly arrayed he put him not far in press.†   (source)
  • As the king and Sir Launcelot thus spake, Sir Tristram rode privily out of the press, that none espied him but La Beale Isoud and Sir Palomides, for they two would not let off their eyes upon Sir Tristram.†   (source)
  • But when the lady heard tell of the duke her husband, and by all record he was dead or ever King Uther came to her, then she marvelled who that might be that lay with her in likeness of her lord; so she mourned privily and held her peace.†   (source)
  • So wot I never with what engine the fiend enchafed him, for yesterday he took me from my father privily; for I, nor none of my father's men, mistrusted him not, and if he had had my maidenhead he should have died for the sin, and his body shamed and dishonoured for ever.†   (source)
  • Then Sir Launcelot took his sword in his hand, and privily went to a place where he had espied a ladder to-forehand, and that he took under his arm, and bare it through the garden, and set it up to the window, and there anon the queen was ready to meet him.†   (source)
  • Then Sir Dinas and Dame Bragwaine brought Sir Tristram and Kehydius privily unto the court, unto a chamber whereas La Beale Isoud had assigned it; and to tell the joys that were betwixt La Beale Isoud and Sir Tristram, there is no tongue can tell it, nor heart think it, nor pen write it.†   (source)
  • And in the meanwhile Sir Palomides walked privily out to rest him under the leaves, and there beside he saw a knight come riding with a shield that he had seen Sir Ector de Maris bear beforehand; and there came after him a ten knights, and so these ten knights hoved under the leaves for heat.†   (source)
  • All the barons were privily wroth that the king would depart so suddenly; but the king by no mean would abide, but made writing unto them that were not there, and bade them hie after him, such as were not at that time in the court.†   (source)
  • So Sir Persant's daughter did as her father bade her, and so she went unto Sir Beaumains' bed, and privily she dispoiled her, and laid her down by him, and then he awoke and saw her, and asked her what she was.†   (source)
  • Then Sir Mordred sought on Queen Guenever by letters and sonds, and by fair means and foul means, for to have her to come out of the Tower of London; but all this availed not, for she answered him shortly, openly and privily, that she had liefer slay herself than to be married with him.†   (source)
  • That is the more pity, said Dinadan, for Sir Gawaine and his brethren, except you Sir Gareth, hate all the good knights of the Round Table for the most part; for well I wot an they might privily, they hate my lord Sir Launcelot and all his kin, and great privy despite they have at him; and that is my lord Sir Launcelot well ware of, and that causeth him to have the good knights of his kin about him.†   (source)
  • Then Sir Launcelot made him ready, and put the red sleeve upon his head, and fastened it fast; and so Sir Launcelot and Sir Lavaine departed out of Winchester privily, and rode until a little leaved wood behind the party that held against King Arthur's party, and there they held them still till the parties smote together.†   (source)
  • And peradventure my lady, the queen, sent for him to that intent that Sir Launcelot should come to her good grace privily and secretly, weening to her that it was best so to do, in eschewing and dreading of slander; for ofttimes we do many things that we ween it be for the best, and yet peradventure it turneth to the worst.†   (source)
  • All this espied the queen, and privily she called unto her a child of her chamber that was swiftly horsed, to whom she said: Go thou, when thou seest thy time, and bear this ring unto Sir Launcelot du Lake, and pray him as he loveth me that he will see me and rescue me, if ever he will have joy of me; and spare not thy horse, said the queen, neither for water, neither for land.†   (source)
  • For, as the book saith, had not Sir Launcelot been in his privy thoughts and in his mind so set inwardly to the queen as he was in seeming outward to God, there had no knight passed him in the quest of the Sangreal; but ever his thoughts were privily on the queen, and so they loved together more hotter than they did to-forehand, and had such privy draughts together, that many in the court spake of it, and in especial Sir Agravaine, Sir Gawaine's brother, for he was ever open-mouthed.†   (source)
  • ... and to the marriage Her nurse is privy:   (source)
    privy = informed about something secret
  • And when he came to the sea he sent home the footmen again, and took no more with him but ten thousand men on horseback, the most part men of arms, and so shipped and passed the sea into England, and landed at Dover; and through the wit of Merlin, he had the host northward, the priviest way that could be thought, unto the forest of Bedegraine, and there in a valley he lodged them secretly.†   (source)
  • …Beaumains, and then she called unto her Sir Gringamore her brother, and prayed him in all manner, as he loved her heartily, that he would ride after Sir Beaumains: And ever have ye wait upon him till ye may find him sleeping, for I am sure in his heaviness he will alight down in some place, and lie him down to sleep; and therefore have ye your wait upon him, and in the priviest manner ye can, take his dwarf, and go ye your way with him as fast as ever ye may or Sir Beaumains awake.†   (source)
  • And childe Leopold did up his beaver for to pleasure him and took apertly somewhat in amity for he never drank no manner of mead which he then put by and anon full privily he voided the more part in his neighbour glass and his neighbour nist not of this wile.†   (source)
  • To cotton-field drudge or cleaner of privies I lean, On his right cheek I put the family kiss, And in my soul I swear I never will deny him.†   (source)
  • In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.†   (source)
  • 1:18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.†   (source)
  • And so privily she sent the letter unto Sir Launcelot.†   (source)
  • And then anon that damosel picked her away privily, that no man wist where she was become.†   (source)
  • Full privily a *finch eke could he pull*.†   (source)
  • 31:4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.†   (source)
  • But Anglides privily gat her husband's doublet and his shirt, and that she kept secretly.†   (source)
  • And then the good Prince Boudwin, at the landing, he raised the country privily and hastily.†   (source)
  • For, God it wot, I have wept many a tear Full privily, since I have had a wife.†   (source)
  • And when mass was done the king and the queen opened the letters privily by themself.†   (source)
  • Out at the door he went full privily, When that he saw his time, softely.†   (source)
  • I may never believe, said Palomides, that King Arthur will ride so privily as a poor errant knight.†   (source)
  • Give me your hand; I'll privily away: I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes: Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause and 'aves' vehement: Nor do I think the man of safe discretion That does affect it.†   (source)
  • I will seek him, and privily relieve him: go you and maintain talk with the duke, that my charity be not of him perceived: if he ask for me, I am ill, and gone to bed.†   (source)
  • Hither we came, and thence, down in the ditch, I saw people plunged in an excrement that seemed as if it proceeded from human privies.†   (source)
  • Aye, And men that erst for wisdom were held high, Feel thee a thorn to fret them, privily Held higher than they.†   (source)
  • He privily Deals with our Cardinal; and, as I trow,— Which I do well, for I am sure the Emperor Paid ere he promis'd; whereby his suit was granted Ere it was ask'd—but when the way was made, And pav'd with gold, the Emperor thus desir'd, That he would please to alter the King's course, And break the foresaid peace.†   (source)
  • So privily without their leave I went To Delphi, and Apollo sent me back Baulked of the knowledge that I came to seek.†   (source)
  • This letter he sealed, privily weeping.†   (source)
  • 1:11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 1:12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 1:13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 1:14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 1:15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.†   (source)
  • 64:5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?†   (source)
  • 101:5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.†   (source)
  • And then privily he wrote unto her letters and ballads of the most goodliest that were used in those days.†   (source)
  • 10:8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.†   (source)
  • King Arthur was warned privily, and sent his people to Sessoine, and took up the towns and castles from the Romans.†   (source)
  • Soon after this, a furlong way or two,<8> He privily hath told all his intent Unto a man, and to his wife him sent.†   (source)
  • 11:2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.†   (source)
  • This Soudaness, whom I thus blame and warray*, *oppose, censure Let privily her council go their way: Why should I in this tale longer tarry?†   (source)
  • And then he let ordain privily a little vessel, and therein they went, Sir Tristram, Kehydius, Dame Bragwaine, and Gouvernail, Sir Tristram's squire.†   (source)
  • Then said Sir Dinadan privily unto Sir Tristram: Sir, that is Sir Launcelot du Lake that spake unto you first, and the other is my lord King Arthur.†   (source)
  • And privily about midnight Sir Percivale came to Aglovale's squire and said: Arise and make thee ready, for ye and I will ride away secretly.†   (source)
  • And while we seeke that Divinity That is y-hid in heaven privily, Algate* burnt in this world should we be.†   (source)
  • And when Sir Palamides had received this fall, wit ye well that he was sore ashamed, and as privily as he might he withdrew him out of the field.†   (source)
  • The death he feeleth through his hearte smite; He weepeth, waileth, crieth piteously; To slay himself he waiteth privily.†   (source)
  • This counsel was not so privily kept but it was understood; for they were but young both, and tender of age, and had not used none such crafts to-fore.†   (source)
  • But there Sir Launcelot was lodged privily by the means of Sir Lavaine with a rich burgess, that no man in that town was ware what they were.†   (source)
  • And ofttimes Merlin would have had her privily away by his subtle crafts; then she made him to swear that he should never do none enchantment upon her if he would have his will.†   (source)
  • But when Galahad saw there would none turn again he stole away privily, so that none wist where he was become.†   (source)
  • For which these woeful maidens, full of dread, Rather than they would lose their maidenhead, They privily *be start* into a well, *suddenly leaped And drowned themselves, as the bookes tell.†   (source)
  • Then privily and secretly he sent letters unto King Arthur, and unto Queen Guenever, and unto Sir Launcelot.†   (source)
  • * *complain in my hearing* "I woulde live in peace, if that I might; Wherefore I am disposed utterly, As I his sister served ere* by night, *before Right so think I to serve him privily.†   (source)
  • When Sir Lionel saw him do thus, he thought to assay him, and made him ready, and stilly and privily he took his horse, and thought not for to awake Sir Launcelot.†   (source)
  • Arise up early, in the morning, tide, And at the west gate of the town,' quoth he, 'A carte full of dung there shalt: thou see, In which my body is hid privily.†   (source)
  • And then Sir Tristram rode privily unto the postern, where kept him La Beale Isoud, and there she made him good cheer, and thanked God of his good speed.†   (source)
  • And the queen sent privily on her part spies to know what deeds he had done, for great love was between them twain.†   (source)
  • And so I hear the people privily say, for of all women I saw none so fair; and therefore, an thou wilt slay my lady, I doubt not but I shall slay thee and have thy lady.†   (source)
  • When La Beale Isoud heard how he was missed, privily she went unto Sir Sadok, and prayed him to espy where was Sir Tristram.†   (source)
  • * *groan He go'th, and getteth him a kneading trough, And after that a tub, and a kemelin, And privily he sent them to his inn: And hung them in the roof full privily.†   (source)
  • Then Gawaine called privily in council all his brethren, and to them said thus: Fair brethren, here may ye see, whom that we hate King Arthur loveth, and whom that we love he hateth.†   (source)
  • And so that night they yede unto rest, and all that night the Green Knight commanded thirty knights privily to watch Beaumains, for to keep him from all treason.†   (source)
  • Yet [besides, further] had this Meliboeus in his council many folk, that privily in his ear counselled him certain thing, and counselled him the contrary in general audience.†   (source)
  • *unless* What I may get in counsel privily, No manner conscience of that have I. N'ere* mine extortion, I might not live, *were it not for For of such japes* will I not be shrive.†   (source)
  • And so upon a day La Beale Isoud gat a sword privily and bare it to her garden, and there she pight the sword through a plum tree up to the hilt, so that it stuck fast, and it stood breast high.†   (source)
  • And in the meanwhile Sir Palomides walked privily out to rest him under the leaves, and there beside he saw a knight come riding with a shield that he had seen Sir Ector de Maris bear beforehand; and there came after him a ten knights, and so these ten knights hoved under the leaves for heat.†   (source)
  • But when the lady heard tell of the duke her husband, and by all record he was dead or ever King Uther came to her, then she marvelled who that might be that lay with her in likeness of her lord; so she mourned privily and held her peace.†   (source)
  • He coulde better than his lord purchase Full rich he was y-stored privily His lord well could he please subtilly, To give and lend him of his owen good, And have a thank, and yet* a coat and hood.†   (source)
  • Then Sir Mordred sought on Queen Guenever by letters and sonds, and by fair means and foul means, for to have her to come out of the Tower of London; but all this availed not, for she answered him shortly, openly and privily, that she had liefer slay herself than to be married with him.†   (source)
  • And so he went privily into the court, and saw this adventure, whereof it raised his heart, and he would assay it as other knights did, but for he was poor and poorly arrayed he put him not far in press.†   (source)
  • The sland'r of Walter wondrous wide sprad, That of a cruel heart he wickedly, For* he a poore woman wedded had, *because Had murder'd both his children privily: Such murmur was among them commonly.†   (source)
  • As the king and Sir Launcelot thus spake, Sir Tristram rode privily out of the press, that none espied him but La Beale Isoud and Sir Palomides, for they two would not let off their eyes upon Sir Tristram.†   (source)
  • Then Sir Dinas and Dame Bragwaine brought Sir Tristram and Kehydius privily unto the court, unto a chamber whereas La Beale Isoud had assigned it; and to tell the joys that were betwixt La Beale Isoud and Sir Tristram, there is no tongue can tell it, nor heart think it, nor pen write it.†   (source)
  • So wot I never with what engine the fiend enchafed him, for yesterday he took me from my father privily; for I, nor none of my father's men, mistrusted him not, and if he had had my maidenhead he should have died for the sin, and his body shamed and dishonoured for ever.†   (source)
  • And after dinner Dan John soberly This chapman took apart, and privily He said him thus: "Cousin, it standeth so, That, well I see, to Bruges ye will go; God and Saint Austin speede you and guide.†   (source)
  • And Sir Palomides might not sleep for anguish; and in the dawning of the day he took his horse privily, and rode his way unto Sir Gaheris and unto Sir Sagramore le Desirous, where they were in their pavilions; for they three were fellows at the beginning of the tournament.†   (source)
  • These hundred frankes set he forth anon, And privily he took them to Dan John; No wight in all this world wist of this loan, Saving the merchant and Dan John alone.†   (source)
  • Then Sir Launcelot took his sword in his hand, and privily went to a place where he had espied a ladder to-forehand, and that he took under his arm, and bare it through the garden, and set it up to the window, and there anon the queen was ready to meet him.†   (source)
  • All the barons were privily wroth that the king would depart so suddenly; but the king by no mean would abide, but made writing unto them that were not there, and bade them hie after him, such as were not at that time in the court.†   (source)
  • Lordings, the time wasteth night and day, And steals from us, what privily sleeping, And what through negligence in our waking, As doth the stream, that turneth never again, Descending from the mountain to the plain.†   (source)
  • For, as the book saith, had not Sir Launcelot been in his privy thoughts and in his mind so set inwardly to the queen as he was in seeming outward to God, there had no knight passed him in the quest of the Sangreal; but ever his thoughts were privily on the queen, and so they loved together more hotter than they did to-forehand, and had such privy draughts together, that many in the court spake of it, and in especial Sir Agravaine, Sir Gawaine's brother, for he was ever open-mouthed.†   (source)
  • And peradventure my lady, the queen, sent for him to that intent that Sir Launcelot should come to her good grace privily and secretly, weening to her that it was best so to do, in eschewing and dreading of slander; for ofttimes we do many things that we ween it be for the best, and yet peradventure it turneth to the worst.†   (source)
  • *unless He wooed her, but it availed nought; She woulde do no sinne by no way: And for despite, he compassed his thought To make her a shameful death to dey;* *die He waiteth when the Constable is away, And privily upon a night he crept In Hermegilda's chamber while she slept.†   (source)
  • So Sir Persant's daughter did as her father bade her, and so she went unto Sir Beaumains' bed, and privily she dispoiled her, and laid her down by him, and then he awoke and saw her, and asked her what she was.†   (source)
  • Arcite is ridd anon unto the town, And on the morrow, ere it were daylight, Full privily two harness hath he dight*, *prepared Both suffisant and meete to darraine* *contest The battle in the field betwixt them twain.†   (source)
  • All this espied the queen, and privily she called unto her a child of her chamber that was swiftly horsed, to whom she said: Go thou, when thou seest thy time, and bear this ring unto Sir Launcelot du Lake, and pray him as he loveth me that he will see me and rescue me, if ever he will have joy of me; and spare not thy horse, said the queen, neither for water, neither for land.†   (source)
  • That is the more pity, said Dinadan, for Sir Gawaine and his brethren, except you Sir Gareth, hate all the good knights of the Round Table for the most part; for well I wot an they might privily, they hate my lord Sir Launcelot and all his kin, and great privy despite they have at him; and that is my lord Sir Launcelot well ware of, and that causeth him to have the good knights of his kin about him.†   (source)
  • "This is thy daughter, which thou hast suppos'd To be my wife; that other faithfully Shall be mine heir, as I have aye dispos'd; Thou bare them of thy body truely: At Bologna kept I them privily: Take them again, for now may'st thou not say That thou hast lorn* none of thy children tway.†   (source)
  • Then Sir Launcelot made him ready, and put the red sleeve upon his head, and fastened it fast; and so Sir Launcelot and Sir Lavaine departed out of Winchester privily, and rode until a little leaved wood behind the party that held against King Arthur's party, and there they held them still till the parties smote together.†   (source)
  • He took his coal, of which I spake above, And in his hand he bare it privily, And while the prieste couched busily The coales, as I tolde you ere this, This canon saide, "Friend, ye do amiss; This is not couched as it ought to be, But soon I shall amenden it," quoth he.†   (source)
  • Saint Urban, with his deacons, privily The body fetch'd, and buried it by night Among his other saintes honestly; Her house the church of Saint Cecilie hight;* *is called Saint Urban hallow'd it, as he well might; In which unto this day, in noble wise, Men do to Christ and to his saint service.†   (source)
  • This false thief, the Sompnour (quoth the Frere), Had always bawdes ready to his hand, As any hawk to lure in Engleland, That told him all the secrets that they knew, — For their acquaintance was not come of new; They were his approvers* privily.†   (source)
  • And if a man will ask them privily, Why they be clothed so unthriftily,* *shabbily They right anon will rownen* in his ear, *whisper And sayen, if that they espied were, Men would them slay, because of their science: Lo, thus these folk betrayen innocence!†   (source)
  • *lost "And folk, that otherwise have said of me, I warn them well, that I have done this deed For no malice, nor for no cruelty, But to assay in thee thy womanhead: And not to slay my children (God forbid), But for to keep them privily and still, Till I thy purpose knew, and all thy will."†   (source)
  • *" *pleases This messenger drank sadly* ale and wine, *steadily And stolen were his letters privily Out of his box, while he slept as a swine; And counterfeited was full subtilly Another letter, wrote full sinfully, Unto the king, direct of this mattere From his Constable, as ye shall after hear.†   (source)
  • The Sompnour said, "Here shall we have a prey," And near the fiend he drew, *as nought ne were,* *as if nothing Full privily, and rowned* in his ear: were the matter* "Hearken, my brother, hearken, by thy faith, *whispered Hearest thou not, how that the carter saith?†   (source)
  • And thus within a while his name sprung Both of his deedes, and of his good tongue, That Theseus hath taken him so near, That of his chamber he hath made him squire, And gave him gold to maintain his degree; And eke men brought him out of his country From year to year full privily his rent.†   (source)
  • He told me eke, for what occasion Amphiorax at Thebes lost his life: My husband had a legend of his wife Eryphile, that for an ouche* of gold *clasp, collar Had privily unto the Greekes told, Where that her husband hid him in a place, For which he had at Thebes sorry grace.†   (source)
  • The good wife came walking full privily Into the garden, where he walked soft, And him saluted, as she had done oft; A maiden child came in her company, Which as her list she might govern and gie,* *guide For yet under the yarde* was the maid.†   (source)
  • And when this book was in his remembrance Anon for joy his heart began to dance, And to himself he saide privily; "My brother shall be warish'd* hastily *cured For I am sicker* that there be sciences, *certain By which men make divers apparences, Such as these subtle tregetoures play.†   (source)
  • His fellow taught him homeward* privily *on the way home From day to day, till he coud* it by rote, *knew And then he sang it well and boldely From word to word according with the note; Twice in a day it passed through his throat; To schoole-ward, and homeward when he went; On Christ's mother was set all his intent.†   (source)
  • But take keep* of the death of Holofern; *notice Amid his host he drunken lay at night Within his tente, large as is a bern;* *barn And yet, for all his pomp and all his might, Judith, a woman, as he lay upright Sleeping, his head off smote, and from his tent Full privily she stole from every wight, And with his head unto her town she went.†   (source)
  • *praying The night came, and to bedde must she gon With her husband, as it is the mannere; And privily she said to him anon; "O sweet and well-beloved spouse dear, There is a counsel,* an'** ye will it hear, *secret **if Which that right fain I would unto you say, So that ye swear ye will it not bewray.†   (source)
  • This sicke Damian in Venus' fire So burned that he died for desire; For which he put his life *in aventure,* *at risk* No longer might he in this wise endure; But privily a penner* gan he borrow, *writing-case And in a letter wrote he all his sorrow, In manner of a complaint or a lay, Unto his faire freshe lady May.†   (source)
  • Warmly approving the counsel that in all this business Meliboeus should proceed with great diligence and deliberation, Prudence goes on to examine the advice given by his neighbours that do him reverence without love, his old enemies reconciled, his flatterers that counselled him certain things privily and openly counselled him the contrary, and the young folk that counselled him to avenge himself and make war at once.†   (source)
  • …he had a silver teine;* *small piece He silly took it out, this cursed heine* *wretch (Unweeting* this priest of his false craft), *unsuspecting And in the panne's bottom he it laft* *left And in the water rumbleth to and fro, And wondrous privily took up also The copper teine (not knowing thilke priest), And hid it, and him hente* by the breast, *took And to him spake, and thus said in his game; "Stoop now adown; by God, ye be to blame; Helpe me now, as I did you whilere;* *before…†   (source)
  • This parish clerk, this amorous Absolon, That is for love alway so woebegone, Upon the Monday was at Oseney With company, him to disport and play; And asked upon cas* a cloisterer** *occasion **monk Full privily after John the carpenter; And he drew him apart out of the church, And said, "I n'ot;* I saw him not here wirch** *know not **work Since Saturday; I trow that he be went For timber, where our abbot hath him sent.†   (source)
  • *end To Rome again repaired Julius, With his triumphe laureate full high; But on a time Brutus and Cassius, That ever had of his estate envy, Full privily have made conspiracy Against this Julius in subtle wise And cast* the place in which he shoulde die, *arranged With bodekins,* as I shall you devise.†   (source)
  • Then he must eschew the counselling of fools, of flatterers, of his old enemies that be reconciled, of servants who bear him great reverence and fear, of folk that be drunken and can hide no counsel, of such as counsel one thing privily and the contrary openly; and of young folk, for their counselling is not ripe.†   (source)
  • *same To which thing shortly answeren I shall: I say there was no joy nor feast at all, There was but heaviness and muche sorrow: For privily he wed her on the morrow; And all day after hid him as an owl, So woe was him, his wife look'd so foul Great was the woe the knight had in his thought When he was with his wife to bed y-brought; He wallow'd, and he turned to and fro.†   (source)
  • …<13> Particular sciences for to learn,— He him remember'd, that upon a day At Orleans in study a book he say* *saw Of magic natural, which his fellaw, That was that time a bachelor of law All* were he there to learn another craft, *though Had privily upon his desk y-laft; Which book spake much of operations Touching the eight and-twenty mansions That longe to the Moon, and such folly As in our dayes is not worth a fly; For holy church's faith, in our believe,* *belief, creed Us…†   (source)
  • This alms shouldest thou do of thine own proper things, and hastily [promptly], and privily [secretly] if thou mayest; but nevertheless, if thou mayest not do it privily, thou shalt not forbear to do alms, though men see it, so that it be not done for thank of the world, but only for thank of Jesus Christ.†   (source)
  • Somewhat this lord had ruth in his mannere, But natheless his purpose held he still, As lordes do, when they will have their will; And bade this sergeant that he privily Shoulde the child full softly wind and wrap, With alle circumstances tenderly, And carry it in a coffer, or in lap; But, upon pain his head off for to swap,* *strike That no man shoulde know of his intent, Nor whence he came, nor whither that he went; But at Bologna, to his sister dear, That at that time of Panic'* was…†   (source)
  • *except His brother wept and wailed privily, Till at the last him fell in remembrance, That while he was at Orleans <12> in France, — As younge clerkes, that be likerous* — *eager To readen artes that be curious, Seeken in every *halk and every hern* *nook and corner* <13> Particular sciences for to learn,— He him remember'd, that upon a day At Orleans in study a book he say* *saw Of magic natural, which his fellaw, That was that time a bachelor of law All* were he there to learn…†   (source)
  • Wherefore I rede,* that cut** among us all *advise **lots We draw, and let see where the cut will fall: And he that hath the cut, with hearte blithe Shall run unto the town, and that full swithe,* *quickly And bring us bread and wine full privily: And two of us shall keepe subtilly This treasure well: and if he will not tarry, When it is night, we will this treasure carry, By one assent, where as us thinketh best.†   (source)
  • * *point Now was this child as like unto Constance As possible is a creature to be: This Alla had the face in remembrance Of Dame Constance, and thereon mused he, If that the childe's mother *were aught she* *could be she* That was his wife; and privily he sight,* *sighed And sped him from the table *that he might.†   (source)
  • This freshe May, of which I spake yore,* *previously In warm wax hath *imprinted the cliket* *taken an impression That January bare of the small wicket of the key* By which into his garden oft he went; And Damian, that knew all her intent, The cliket counterfeited privily; There is no more to say, but hastily Some wonder by this cliket shall betide, Which ye shall hearen, if ye will abide.†   (source)
  • When Dame Prudence had heard the answer of these men, she bade them go again privily, and she returned to her lord Meliboeus, and told him how she found his adversaries full repentant, acknowledging full lowly their sins and trespasses, and how they were ready to suffer all pain, requiring and praying him of mercy and pity.†   (source)
  • Now was there then a justice in that town, That governor was of that regioun: And so befell, this judge his eyen cast Upon this maid, avising* her full fast, *observing As she came forth by where this judge stood; Anon his hearte changed and his mood, So was he caught with beauty of this maid And to himself full privily he said, "This maiden shall be mine *for any man.†   (source)
  • …this knight for dread,* *see note <1>* Tell her his woe, his pain, and his distress But, at the last, she for his worthiness, And namely* for his meek obeisance, *especially Hath such a pity caught of his penance,* *suffering, distress That privily she fell of his accord To take him for her husband and her lord (Of such lordship as men have o'er their wives); And, for to lead the more in bliss their lives, Of his free will he swore her as a knight, That never in all his life he day nor…†   (source)
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  • Sooty brick, two up, two down, privy out back.†   (source)
  • This meant that I was often privy to their real feelings about those "damn I-raynians."†   (source)
  • To the privy ….†   (source)
  • I have never officially been privy to the present location of the Grail.†   (source)
  • "For the newcomers among us," S.Q. said, "let me remind you that you, too, could be privy to the special privileges enjoyed by our Messengers.†   (source)
  • Suppose an unnamed person—an upstanding citizen minding his own business—happened to become privy to inside information about a criminal case.†   (source)
  • Small details I'm privy to now.†   (source)
  • The conversations tend toward legendary occurrences on the island—many of which include acts of bravery or cowardice from the old outhouse or privy period of their lives.†   (source)
  • This is our privy.†   (source)
  • This was news, this was a bulletin—I was suddenly privy to everything.†   (source)
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  • Even the whorehouse was down there, nothing on the surface but a wooden shack no bigger than a privy, with a red lantern hung over the door.†   (source)
  • Not a hole-in-the-ground privy toilet that you had to hold your breath to go into, but a bathroom.†   (source)
  • "She's in the privy.†   (source)
  • She had already discovered, to her horror, that the bathroom was a privy outside the house, and it had no light for night visits.†   (source)
  • He's probably silently gloating at the fact that I admitted I'm attracted to him, while I'm silently cringing that he's now privy to that knowledge.†   (source)
  • He says that's because there's only one privy and it's in the backyard and children don't get down the stairs in time to put their little arses on the bowl, God help us.†   (source)
  • But between the images, we are privy to the real-life action being played out on the set.†   (source)
  • A woman's bicycle was propped against the wall of the privy.†   (source)
  • A few feet beyond is his privy -- a hole with a wooden shanty over it.†   (source)
  • Those privy to the warfare within and between these agencies watched Burnham closely but saw no change in his expression.†   (source)
  • Now she was part of the forty most crucial minds at the company—the Gang of 40—privy to its most secret plans and data.†   (source)
  • She hoped Paul D wouldn't take it upon himself to come looking for her and be obliged to see her squatting in front of her own privy making a mudhole too deep to be witnessed without shame.†   (source)
  • Mom's parents had retired to a farm in Abb's Valley, Virginia, and they had a privy.†   (source)
  • Nor was I privy to the discussions between the Wandatis.†   (source)
  • But her husband's allowing his confessor to be privy to an intimacy that was not only his but hers as well was more than she could bear.†   (source)
  • The Count was privy to all his innermost plans for the revenge war.†   (source)
  • I know you're privy to that information as an angel of death."†   (source)
  • I am privy to all of the agony around me, whether physical or mental.†   (source)
  • It would have been easy to hate Josie, because Matt was the iber-boyfriend-always glancing around at a party to make sure he hadn't gotten too far away from Josie; calling her up to say good night, even when he'd just dropped her off a half hour before (yes, Courtney had been privy to a display of that very thing just last night).†   (source)
  • My sisters remembered this time better than I did, as they were older and therefore privy to more information.†   (source)
  • Ryan and the four Royal Navy officers who were privy to the mission were on the flag bridge, with the fleet ASW officer in the command center below, as the Invincible steamed slowly north, slightly to the left of the direct course to the contacts.†   (source)
  • Take it to the privy when I do my hygiene.†   (source)
  • Things you are not privy to.†   (source)
  • If he was helping to put the briefings together he was privy to some highly classified and potentially valuable information.†   (source)
  • "Adam was like no other kid I ever met," says Roger Buschmann, who was privy to Adam's resolve that day.†   (source)
  • Her head spun at Stephanie's assessment; it was as if the woman had known her all her life and were privy to her darkest secrets.†   (source)
  • It was handsome and regular, with none of the marks and twists which indicate a per-son who has been through awesome times and who has been privy to great and unknown secrets.†   (source)
  • Living with real circus freaks, traveling the world, privy to solemn and magnificent secrets.†   (source)
  • So many times at Missing, Matron had become privy to an unspeakable secret revealed by catastrophic illness.†   (source)
  • But she was also privy to Kara's situation in the histories.†   (source)
  • In my professional opinion, no one who wasn't privy to the first crime, to the stages of it, could have so perfectly mirrored the events in the second two."†   (source)
  • You're shocked about the murders, but you are not privy to the editorial work, so you cannot comment on any speculation.†   (source)
  • Felicia feels as though she were in love again, at the center of the universe, privy to its secrets and inner workings.†   (source)
  • The magus was privy to the reports of his king's ambassador in Eddis and had read them carefully throughout the fall and winter, his personal desires in conflict with his political ones.†   (source)
  • As Director of Rowan, I am privy to all of these missions.†   (source)
  • I said let's move the privy closer to the house.†   (source)
  • We are not privy to our master's plans," said Mr. Archer in a haughty tone.†   (source)
  • "The captain must have his reasons," I said to her, "which I am not privy to and would not speak about if I were.†   (source)
  • "Well, a privy," Helen said with a laugh.†   (source)
  • By treaty, in Great Britain the king, in his privy council, determines them.†   (source)
  • The lieutenant who was their guide was a dapper young man named Pitzer, who liked to gossip, to show that he was privy to great secrets.†   (source)
  • If this is your room, macho boy,' interrupted the girl, swaying in her chair, 'you were privy to private things and we're not like that.†   (source)
  • And what about the stables and the coach house dark as pitch, and the servants' quarters and the six-foot snake I saw with my own eyes curled up on the privy seat last time I was here.†   (source)
  • He consulted with Saladin frequently, about what Natalie was not privy.†   (source)
  • He shouted at the privy door.†   (source)
  • Behind the custard stand stood an old unpainted privy leaning badly to one side.†   (source)
  • Among these was Leonard I, Baron of Taxis, Gentleman of the Emperor's Privy Chamber and Baron of Buysinghen, the hereditary Grand Master of the Post for the Low Countries, and executor of the Thurn and Taxis monopoly.†   (source)
  • Wouldn't the mere fact that he had made her privy to such a sensitive matter indicate …. what?†   (source)
  • (She sniffs) That's all right, I suppose, for them as likes havin' a privy practically in the bedroom!†   (source)
  • Here was luxury almost too rich to be borne by anyone whose idea of fancy toiletry was Uncle Irvey's two-hole privy and a Montgomery Ward catalog.†   (source)
  • If there was a fence to be mended, a privy to be built, an errand to be run, or an itch to be scratched, the islanders knew that all they had to do was ask the California boys.†   (source)
  • I would hold privy counsel with you concerning it.†   (source)
  • That well shouldn't be down-slope from the barn and privy that way — it'll get the seep.†   (source)
  • I believe, as you do, that there is certain information to which the masses should not be privy.†   (source)
  • I reached the privy and emptied the slop pail, and so forth.†   (source)
  • If Madam or Lockton come across me, I'll say I'm on my way to the privy.†   (source)
  • Before going to bed I open the back door and make my way to the privy.†   (source)
  • Really if he does not know what you do in a privy there is no hope for him.†   (source)
  • He got halfway to the little wooden privy under the trees and then stopped, spellbound.†   (source)
  • One of us here was privy to the rebel plans, worked with one of the bosses there.†   (source)
  • As you already know, you are to use the privy in the back.†   (source)
  • Through the window, I watched Ruth leave the privy and walk straight to a bench.†   (source)
  • After we finished our business in the privy each morning, I took her to check our mystery garden.†   (source)
  • I'm on my way to the privy, I reminded myself No harm in that.†   (source)
  • As I folded the blankets, Mr. Robert went out to the privy.†   (source)
  • The Locktons would soon need to dig a new privy hole.†   (source)
  • Why, with so much land available, there was no proper privy, Abigail could not understand.†   (source)
  • He felt a call of nature, and found his lordship in the privy.†   (source)
  • We must assume that Astaroth is privy to any secrets that Augur possessed.†   (source)
  • Still,' I said, 'you have to admit, you're privy to a lot.†   (source)
  • The Twins were privy to the identities of the Varden's collaborators.†   (source)
  • He left a sleeping draught, but Theon poured it down the privy shaft the moment he was gone.†   (source)
  • He claimed that you had put a tax on women's privy purses."†   (source)
  • If it please my lord, I would request a privy audience.†   (source)
  • She lifted her chin and pointed toward the rear of the privy room.†   (source)
  • The White father, Alvin Miller, came out to the privy.†   (source)
  • "He himself grew up with just a privy," Red said.†   (source)
  • Where the wall had fallen away, they could see right into the rooms, even into the privy.†   (source)
  • A lady need not announce her need for the privy, need she?†   (source)
  • As the warden to the vestry, my mother had been privy to his pain that spring.†   (source)
  • After introductions all around, the old lady apologized again for the kerosene lamps and the privy.†   (source)
  • He found a privy and sighed gratefully as he relieved himself of the morning's wine.†   (source)
  • Eragon was privy to Rhunon's every thought and feeling, by reason of their closeness.†   (source)
  • My friends of Frey will not question a lengthy visit to the privy, we hope.†   (source)
  • She had a featherbed to sleep in, and a privy with a marble seat, sweetened by a basketful of herbs.†   (source)
  • The man pushed open the side door and escorted her into a narrow privy chamber.†   (source)
  • While we took turns at the privy, she got out a soft white nightgown for Miss Love.†   (source)
  • If I showed him the contents of my privy, he would declare that admirable as well.†   (source)
  • Then the father must have walked away, because little Alvin went into the privy.†   (source)
  • Roose Bolton murmured some words too soft to hear and went off in search of a privy.†   (source)
  • I feel as if I am back in the privy again, watching my father die.†   (source)
  • The man grunted, grabbed her other arm, and marched her to the privy room.†   (source)
  • He'll be needing you to help him to the privy."†   (source)
  • I could tell he'd already forgot about her wanting the privy moved and maybe hoping for a bathroom.†   (source)
  • The only time he does that is when he seeks the privy for one of his hourlong squats.†   (source)
  • Several men had drunk themselves to sleep, and one was in the privy, being noisily sick.†   (source)
  • These days, he took guards with him everywhere he went, even to the privy.†   (source)
  • The man was waiting for her when she opened the door to the privy room.†   (source)
  • My nephew is not fit to sit a privy, let alone the Iron Throne.†   (source)
  • He had started to undo her manacles in preparation for escorting her to the privy room.†   (source)
  • They started toward the privy room, she in the front and heslightly to the rear.†   (source)
  • Against the other wall was a privy seat, and above it, hanging like doom, was a water tank.†   (source)
  • There was no reason to think so: they did not know each other, they had never met, and Fermina Daza had nothing to do with the decision of the judges even though she was privy to their secrets.†   (source)
  • There's always been conspiratorial conjecture that a select few within this highest echelon of Masonry are made privy to some great mystical secret.†   (source)
  • Her eyes locked onto mine in the mirror and lingered there awhile, waiting, and I understood that I had been made privy to a secret.†   (source)
  • Reenie and her husband were living in one of the small limestone row-house cottages originally built for the factory workmen — two floors, pointed roof, privy at the back of the narrow garden — not so very far from where I live now They had no telephone, so we could not alert Reenie to the fact that we were coming.†   (source)
  • Valentine, in the class ahead of me, had a figure that was usually described by boys watching her sashay by as "stacked like a brick privy.†   (source)
  • The actual surveillance had been carried out by his manservant, Rémy—the lone person privy to Teabing's true identity—now conveniently dead of an allergic reaction.†   (source)
  • I was six years old and I knew that I had just been made privy to something very big and important, something far larger than the jewels in the Shah's crown, something larger than my little life in Abadan.†   (source)
  • It could have been a tale from Gogol with Shalamov playing the part of a well-fed privy councillor impressed by his own rank.†   (source)
  • I have heard, many times, the story of Uncle Bulwer Ormsby who was attacked by an owl in the privy—which had no door, "the better to air it out!" the Keelings and the Gibsons and the Ormsbys all claimed.†   (source)
  • There was only one door to the house and to get to it from the back you had to walk all the way around to the front of 124, past the storeroom, past the cold house, the privy, the shed, on around to the porch.†   (source)
  • He had not uttered a word to anyone about his experiences in Paris several years earlier, but Grail fanatics had followed the media coverage closely, some connecting the dots and believing Langdon was now privy to secret information regarding the Holy Grail—perhaps even its location.†   (source)
  • Collet was not yet privy to the evidence that had cemented Fache's certainty of their suspect's guilt, but he knew better than to question the instincts of the Bull.†   (source)
  • I would not have wanted to visit the Keelings—or the Gibsons, or the Ormsbys—on their island before the septic system was installed; but that period of unlighted encounters with spiders in outhouses, and various late-night frights in the privy-world, is another favorite topic of discussion among the families who share the island each summer.†   (source)
  • I cleaned out the ashes from the day before and saved them for sprinkling into the privy, or else for the kitchen garden, where they help to keep off the snails and slugs.†   (source)
  • "Whyn't you take it back in the privy."†   (source)
  • I had been using the chamber pot, as I was already in my nightdress and ready to go to bed, so did not want to go outside to the privy in the dark; and when I happened to look down, there was blood, and some on my nightdress also.†   (source)
  • Uncle Bulwer was pecked on top of his head during a fortunate hiatus in what should have been a most private action, and he was so fearful of the attacking owl that he fled the privy with his pants down at his ankles, and did even greater injury to himself-L-greater than the owl's injury—by running headfirst into a pine tree.†   (source)
  • I remember the privy behind our cottage in Kinvara, so the smell doesn't shock me, though the seat is cold.†   (source)
  • I set down my basket and followed her, just as I was, without my shawl; and I found her on her knees in the wet snow near the privy, which she had not had time to reach, as she had been overcome by a violent sickness.†   (source)
  • They told about how the boys pushed over the privy at the back of the school while one of the girls was in it, and they hadn't warned the girl, but watched along with all of the others, and then they felt wrong about it afterwards.†   (source)
  • I put the packet in my pocket and wade through knee-deep snow to the privy, where I open it in the semidarkness, wind slicing through the cracks in the walls and the slit in the door.†   (source)
  • After that we saw the henhouse and the henyard, which had a woven willow fence around it to keep the chickens in, although it was not much good at keeping the foxes and the weasels out, and the raccoons too, which were known to be great stealers of eggs; and the kitchen garden, which was well planted but needed hoeing; and quite far back along a path was the privy.†   (source)
  • …not to go to this doctor, whoever he might be; but she said she must, and I was not to carry on, but I must put the pen and ink back secretly on the writing desk in the library, and go about my duties; and tomorrow she would steal away after the midday meal, and I was to say if asked that she'd just gone out to the privy, or that she was up in the drying room, or any excuse that came into my head; and then I was to slip away and join her, as she might be in difficulties coming home.†   (source)
  • I threw them down the privy and baked cornbread deep in the night for that was one thing my hands knew how to bake.†   (source)
  • The worst ones are the gentlemen, who think they are entitled to anything they want; and when you go out to the privy at night, they're drunk then, they lie in wait for you and then it is snatch and grab, there's no reasoning with them, and if you must, you should give them a kick between the legs where they'll feel it; and it is always better to lock your door, and to use the chamber pot.†   (source)
  • …lashes; rawhide Threatening to knock convict's brains out: 24 lashes; cat-o'-nine-tails Talking to Keepers on matters not related to their work: 6 lashes; cat-o'-nine-tails Finding fault with rations when required by guards to sit down: 6 lashes; rawhide, and bread and water Staring about and inattentive at breakfast table: Bread and water Leaving work and going to privy when other convict there: 36 hours in dark cell, and bread and water — PUNISHMENT BOOK, Kingston Penitentiary, 1843.†   (source)
  • Scraps here were dumped down the privy.†   (source)
  • I tiptoed down the back steps and flew past the privy and around the side of the house to the gate, which hid in shadows.†   (source)
  • It was fanciful notion, but I uncorked the jar, snatched a handful, and buried it deep in my pocket just as the privy door creaked open.†   (source)
  • I was not privy to the details, but I heard Madam talking about jewels made of paste that would sit in her curls.†   (source)
  • A large plot stretched behind it with a cistern, a privy, a poor excuse for a garden, and at the far end, a carriage house and small stable.†   (source)
  • She was gone to the privy, no doubt.†   (source)
  • I quickly carried the scraps bowl out into the yard, walking past the privy, all the way back to the stable wall where straggly holly bushes grew.†   (source)
  • I was privy to many things.†   (source)
  • I was never privy to the details.†   (source)
  • Finally, about an hour ago, I received word, through surreptitious means that I dare not go into, not even in your trusted pages, Dear Diary (except to say that one of the staff is close friends with a young woman whose brother serves on the police department, and that through this connection I have been privy to information that otherwise should have never reached my ear).†   (source)
  • And Lou had been privy to the results of such observations, as she had been enthralled by the read-ings and musings of some of the most skillful writers of the day, many in the privacy of the Cardinals' modest two-bedroom walkup in Brooklyn.†   (source)
  • I sat on the side of my tub, toothbrush in hand, and wished the house had been designed differently so I wouldn't have been privy to this most painful of moments.†   (source)
  • I am no longer privy to their secrets.†   (source)
  • Bram's quarters comprised several old classrooms that had been modified into an apartment with a large common area, two small bedrooms, a snug study, and an old-fashioned privy.†   (source)
  • I knew at the time that he had never been with a real woman, but he seemed to know their intimacies, as if in going through his photos he had become privy to the secrets of lovemaking, the positions and special methods and the favored styles of the moment.†   (source)
  • Being privy to the reproductive drama was one thing, but specific details, in all honesty, made me kind of queasy.†   (source)
  • "If his head were any larger, 'e couldn't fit in the privy," muttered Loring out the side of his mouth.†   (source)
  • At night, if she wanted to visit the privy, Genet had to step out into the elements, passing the open shed where we stacked firewood.†   (source)
  • "I'm sure he'll come," the Count said; he was privy to all the Prince's plans, and Buttercup was well aware of this.†   (source)
  • Mallory, the music, and, of course, the fact that I was privy to either of these things were shockers in the biggest sense of the word.†   (source)
  • Every question is discussed with moderation, and an acuteness and minuteness equal to that of Queen Elizabeth's privy council.†   (source)
  • And lest you think that you children will be the only ones privy to such terrible secrets, we will be sharing this information with the rest of the school.†   (source)
  • But they could not have informed him of Brom's involvement, for there was no one among the Varden who was privy to that information.†   (source)
  • I slipped beneath the netting of the mess tent and slowly made my way across the dusty red clay of the yard, past the officers' quarters and privy, then past the narrow comfort house, its walls rough-hewn and unpainted and smelling of fresh-cut wood, to where the canopy rose up again and the shade cooled the air.†   (source)
  • I see Felicity dancing with Pippa in the castle, the two of them laughing as if at a joke only they are privy to, and then I see Pippa sitting on the throne, eyes blazing.†   (source)
  • Eragon was also privy to the dragon lore Glaedr imparted to Saphira, details about the dragons' lives and history that complemented her instinctual knowledge.†   (source)
  • However, since it was impractical for everyone privy to potentially damaging information to master that skill, one of Du Vrangr Gata's many responsibilities was to hunt for anyone who was siphoning off facts as they appeared in people's minds.†   (source)
  • There is a privy, when nature calls.†   (source)
  • A far cry from the way the U.S. Marshalls treated him back in Suskwahenny, acting like he was scum they just scraped off the privy seat.†   (source)
  • Continuing the strand of conversation he had been privy to, Roran said, "This magic is a tricky business."†   (source)
  • Out of gratitude we give them a place beneath our roof and make them privy to all our shames and secrets, a part of every council.†   (source)
  • I'd find a place in some dark corner below the salt, but whenever you got up to go to the privy I could slip out and meet you."†   (source)
  • They brought her meals, changed her bed, and emptied the chamber pot beneath her privy, but none would speak with her.†   (source)
  • I'd noticed a big hornet's nest in the privy, just under the tin roof, so I bided my time behind a tree till I saw him go in there.†   (source)
  • It is so much easier to obtain someone's cooperation when you are privy to all of their secret hurts.†   (source)
  • " "It's a good thing Thrower's out at the privy right now, or I reckon he'd wet his pants over that doctrine.†   (source)
  • She stared at him, confused, as he muttered about a privy and a crossbow, and said her father's name.†   (source)
  • Tyrion closed his eyes to bring her face to mind, but instead he saw his father, squatting on a privy with his bedrobe hiked up about his waist.†   (source)
  • Even among the Varden, only a handful of people were privy to her name, and most of them are moldering in graves now.†   (source)
  • Someone had dug a privy trench in the very spot where he'd once knelt before the king to say his vows.†   (source)
  • B., I know now isn't the time or place to be talking about this, but don't you think it would be nice if the privy was nearer the house?†   (source)
  • That young man had a way of looking as though he knew some secret jest that only he was privy to; Catelyn had never liked it.†   (source)
  • The brothel was a shed no bigger than a privy, its red lantern creaking in the wind, a bloodshot eye peering through the blackness.†   (source)
  • Murtagh said something with his thoughts, but Eragon did not know what it was, for it was directed to Glaedr alone, and Eragon was privy only to Glaedr's reaction.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, with Arya and Nasuada privy to their conversation, Eragon was reluctant to address topics of a more personal nature, such as whether Saphira had forgiven him for forcing her to leave him in Helgrind.†   (source)
  • But she didn't once in the whole time we were there admit she had a privy, too, or mention her well water and lamplight.†   (source)
  • Like some sagging slattern who has drenched her privy parts in perfume to drown the stench between her legs.†   (source)
  • She had a dressing room and a privy of her own now, and a balcony of carved white stone that looked off across the Vale.†   (source)
  • Not able to leave her privy, more like.†   (source)
  • Lord Rodrik was seldom seen without a book in hand, be it in the privy, on the deck of his Sea Song, or whilst holding audience.†   (source)
  • But the stink that filled the privy gave ample evidence that the oft-repeated jape about his father was just another lie.†   (source)
  • When he released her from the restraints so that she could visit the privy room, she found she was too weak to make any attempt to grab the knife on the tray of food.†   (source)
  • It was a few days after Alebelly's bath that Ser Rodrik returned to Winterfell with his prisoner, a fleshy young man with fat moist lips and long hair who smelled like a privy, even worse than Alebelly had.†   (source)
  • He put in a nice new privy, and had a new well dug right by the back porch so you didn't have to go in the yard to draw water.†   (source)
  • Meryn Trant claimed that Strong took neither food nor drink, and Boros Blount went so far as to say he had never seen the man use the privy.†   (source)
  • If the tales coming up the kingsroad could be believed, the King's Hand had been murdered by his dwarf son whilst sitting on a privy.†   (source)
  • She swept out the old rushes and scattered fresh sweet-smelling ones, laid a fresh fire in the hearth, changed the linens and fluffed the featherbed, emptied the chamber pots down the privy shaft and scrubbed them out, carried an armload of soiled clothing to the washerwomen, and brought up a bowl of crisp autumn pears from the kitchen.†   (source)
  • The man had, as always, placed the food tray by the base of the far wall, close to where Murtagh had been sitting and perhaps ten feet from the door to the privy room.†   (source)
  • Grandpa must of been twenty-five at least when he turned over the privy at the depot with a Yankee railroad bigwig in it.†   (source)
  • Mostly it was wine and damp and mildew, her nose told her, but there was a little of the privy too, and something of the lichyard.†   (source)
  • He found his father where he knew he'd find him, seated in the dimness of the privy tower, bedrobe hiked up around his hips.†   (source)
  • Also, I knew I'd be embarrassed if she was sweaty and lintheaded from the factory or if, Lord forbid, I saw her coming out of a privy.†   (source)
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