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Usage examples of privy.

What becomes, think you, of the braw commission of the Privy Council that Chasehope had the procuring of?

Thomas Cromwell, then lord privy seal, a design for a similar Burse to be erected in London.

Not being privy to the inner workings of the Mandarinate, he could not guess its nature.

I quite forgot the snake in the privy, the pig in the pantry, and the Indian in the corncrib, absorbed in the rush of water past my legs, the wet, cold touch of stems and the breath of aromatic leaves.

Too few are privy to the fact that the greatest danger any good preservationist may face lies within the borders of Britain herself.

Gaunt had made him privy to the unlocked data back on the Absalom, and Mkoll had studied and restudied the schematics carefully.

Lyonette de Trevalion proposed that Solaine draft orders to the Akkadian ambassador, stamped with the Privy Seal, to string along the Khalif with false promises until he ceded rights to the island of Cythera.

His King paid for it from the Privy Purse, but he supplemented his income by giving undergrad lectures.

An unenclosed two-hole privy sat in regal isolation marked by a trail through the high grass and weeds.

The larch trees with their broken backs, the enormous black sky streaked with fistfuls of congealed fat, the abandoned Poor House that looked like a barn, the great brown dripping box of the Lutheran church bereft of sour souls, bereft of the hymn singers with poke bonnets and sunken and accusing horse faces and dreary choruses, a few weather-beaten cottages unlighted and tight to the dawn and filled, I could see at a glance, with the marvelous dry morality of calico and beans and lard, and then a privy, a blackened pile of tin cans, and even a rooster, a single live rooster strutting in a patch of weeds and losing his broken feathers, clutching his wattles, every moment or two trying to crow into the wind, trying to grub up the head of a worm with one of his snubbed-off claws, cankerous little bloodshot rooster pecking away at the dawn in the empty yard of some dead fisherman .

No longer did barnyards offer sites as rich as the ancient gift of the Nile, no longer was the countryside studded with beneficently unscreened privies, no longer did innumerable slums offer their choice piles of garbage and filth.

It was on the 29th of January that the subject of the Bostonian petition was brought before the privy council.

Then we wait, and when Bragg comes down to use the privy, we move in close and take him.

He glanced at Euler, and the latter nodded back, as if the two shared a secret to which I was not yet privy.

The very fact that the Renunciates had arrived, and that Domenic had not been told to return to Comyn Castle after his night away suggested that there was something going on to which Herm was not privy.