How To Use Privy In A Sentence

Only three people, including a policeman, will be privy to the facts.
No one is privy to her despair, her chaos, and her shame. Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model
The son having sent his father a messenger to know how he might bring the Gabii under a close subjection, the king, mistrusting the messenger, made him no answer, and only took him into his privy garden, and in his presence with his sword lopped off the heads of the tall poppies that were there. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
I can understand a responsible Liberal minister deciding, ATC, not to open this can, but not without first tipping off the PM and probably not without tipping off the priviest part of the privy council the part that handles national security issues. Kory Teneycke, meet my tire iron.
Heidi has become quite a little "porker" ... privy to complimentary special search and rescue operations, Pop Tarts, Mocha coffee beans, as well as a free trip back to the glorious Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local

Joe had never been privy to her thoughts and fears and dreams and giggling drunken confessions in the same unguarded way Chrissie had. FALLEN WOMEN
Earl, a classmate of North's from the Naval Academy, was privy to quite a lot, including the diversion.
For the unconscionable fellow, owing to this coheirship which he pretends to disesteem, has been made privy to experiences which must not only have been extraordinary to so plain and humdrum a person, but which have been, as I happen to know, of great importance to him, and which -- to put the thing at its highest -- have lifted him, dull dog as he is, into regions where the very dogs have wings. Lore of Proserpine
The secretary of Elizabeth I's Privy Council is supposed to have submitted the warrant for the execution of Mary Stuart several times, concealed in a pile of lesser bumf, to help the Queen get over the hump. Discourse.net: Pardon Update (Updated)
As a mere backbencher I'm not privy to negotiations that go on.
The Privy Council wrote to Henry that they had visited Mary often recently "whoe god be thanked is in prosperous health and convalescence. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
While toilet and lavatory have discarded their original meanings, terms such as bog retained their original meanings (` a marshy place ') as well as being understood in Britain as a slang synonym for a toilet; it achieved an entry in Hotten's dictionary as early as 1864 as "a privy as distinguished from a water-closet. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4
Security services and intelligence agencies should be accountable to a committee of senior Privy Councillors.
Ascham, in his elegant description of those whom, in modern language, we term wits, says, that they are "open flatterers, and privy mockers. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
a privy place to rest and think
Are you two anonymous riders privy to the knowledge of the Midnight Rider's name?
Even the timorous Lord Mayor, who was summoned that night before the Privy Council to answer for his conduct, came back contented; observing to all his friends that he had got off very well with a reprimand, and repeating with huge satisfaction his memorable defence before the Council, ‘that such was his temerity, he thought death would have been his portion.’ Barnaby Rudge
In fact, it seems that the only people privy to the scheming duplicity of most of the contestants are the camera operators.
Security services and intelligence agencies should be accountable to a committee of senior Privy Councillors.
He was Lord Privy Seal in 1919-21, but then resigned, owing to ill health and a general weariness of office.
Soon after we arrived, when Joe had gone below stairs to chivvy the porters about our bags, and Annette and I were alone, I excused myself to visit the privy along the way. THE NUMBERS
And to observe her Majesty's commands for the ten thousand pounds, we agreed he should take it out of the portion that was landed secretly, and to remove the same out of the place before my son Henry and I should come to the weighing and registering of what was left; and so it was done, and no creature living by me made privy to it but himself; and myself no privier to it than as you may perceive by this. English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4
This was certainly good food by Tudor standards but it paled compared to the sumptuous meals served to the more senior courtiers, such as the gentlemen of the privy chamber.
From the coal fire in the parlour to the outside privy, it was like stepping into a different universe. Times, Sunday Times
That minister had himself gone the length of petitioning the Scotch Privy Council for a birth-brieve, or certificate, to attest his descent from the Castlehill family, and the petition was refused through the influence of the Duke of Lauderdale. Life of Adam Smith
Any gang of politicos is like the eighth circle of Hell, but the American breed is specially awful because they take it seriously and believe it matters; wherever you went, to dinner or an excursion or to pay a call, or even take a stroll, you were deafened with their infernal prosing-I daren't go to the privy without making sure some seedy heeler wasn't lying in wait to get me to join a caucus. Isabelle
Dropping the appeal to the privy council was a matter of petty nationalist self aggrandisement.
They were accused of being privy to the plot against the king.
Tenent, as head of the CIA, was a "supervisor" of interrogators and was privy to ALL the puzzle pieces -- who knows, he may have been physically present at some as well -- we know that McCain WAS present as an interrogatee (sp?) and gave up accurate and classified info too. Balkinization
There is a large fountaine or bason which is to resemble that in the privy garden at Whitehall, which will ffront the house. Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
Volumes have been written about Nazarbayev and about the so called Kazakh-Gate, mostly by the people who were privy to all this information from the very beginning but played mum's the word while they themselves were close to the president in the capacities of ministers, deputy premiers, governors, or in-laws. Ferghana.Ru news agency
The committee was also privy to Cabinet papers that had traversed the issue with a lot of scrutiny.
These proposals have been approved by special general meetings of both institutes, and now only await Privy Council approval.
journalists have been sent to Pyongyang and are undergoing a direct investigation '' by the North's spy agency and military, Yonhap quoted a source in China it described as privy to North Korean affairs. Undefined
Inherently distrustful of the situation and the number of witnesses privy to the scene, Ed finally rushed forward and grabbed his friend's arm, leading him towards the door.
In the boarding house he had lived in there was a privy in the backyard.
Amid the rambling dialogue and semi-lucid metaphors we become privy to a sense of the director's desperation to conjure up some kind of meaning.
They were accused of being privy to the plot against the king.
The search group was not privy to the coin toss and placement of the target, and the placement group was not present for the actual search.
Now that the Privy Council has confirmed the right of vindicatory damages, there will likely be many more.
I've been told by several people privy to Russian space primate studies that indicate that without at least 1/4 gee and 0.2 gauss magnetic field levels, the human body will NOT survive more than a year and that human conception may be impossible without these minimum stimuli. Dennis Wingo - Why Space? Why Now? - NASA Watch
Those privy to sensitive information about mergers or acquisitions of companies worth millions or billions of pounds must not abuse that privilege.
You have, for in stance, the military manner, which consists in well-squared shoulders, a well-belted waist, a regulation spine, an angular elbow, a click of the keels, a salute that is meant to be at once fascinating and haughty, and a pronounced contempt for everything civilian beneath the grade of a Privy Councilor or a First Secretary.
The privy is a straight "Parson's bench" style with 40 holes; ten on each side wall and twenty back to back in the middle of the building. S./Sgt. Vitold Krushas, Engineer-Top turret (Offenstein crew 576th Sq., 392nd BG) Interviews 6/11/85 & 4/29/86
They are accused of being privy to the plot against the king.
Does that make him a privy counsellor? Times, Sunday Times
Seasoned fairgoer Dennis Scholl said the echo chamber of the Internet allowed complaints about the virtual fair to resonate louder than they might at a physical fair, where a massive online audience isn't privy to world-weary collectors rolling their eyes and griping in the aisles. An Art Fair's Tangled Web
Just recently, it dawned on me that the privy was a one-holer. Dear God, am I bored
As it is a basic principle of contract law that a contract cannot be enforced against someone who is not privy to the contract, one might foresee difficulties arising.
Only three people, including a policeman, will be privy to the facts.
The house achieves a perfect balance of original features - heavy stone lintels, alcoves, shelves and apertures, as well as an antiquated privy - with vital modern additions.
We are never privy to their motivations, or to the reasons they abandon principle, or to how the baddies can live without it.
The privy had its little stand in the corner with a blue curtain and a small wash stand and porcelain sink with a mirror.
My Mesdames communicated with each other in cryptic ways, but after all my years in their company I was privy to their keys. Excerpt: The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
We are not privy to his innermost thoughts here, but to what he chose to record.
Office of the City of Montreal, of the said notice of such election or amotion, shall be final and conclusive, unless the same by any order or orders to be by Us, Our Heirs or Successors made in Our or Their Privy McGill and its Story, 1821-1921
First, the novel makes the reader privy to all the secret plotting and machinations, so that the tension of the plot cannot hinge on unrevealed secrets or hidden motives and actions.
Clearly in many situations there are dynamics that hold people together that outsiders are just not privy to.
Stipulate at the outset — as most folks seem to — that barring extraordinary circumstances (unambiguous libel, incitement to harrassment) Americans have a clear constitutional right to anonymous speech and that, again barring exceptional circumstances, other Americans have an equal First Amendment right to name them if they happen to be privy to that information. Pseudonymity & Accountability Redux
Suddenly the student becomes convinced that he is among the elect, the wise, the few who are privy to a secret, dark but terrible truth.
The names of these privy individuals are known, since this is all done by the book.
When it did not abate, she stumbled into the privy chamber. HERE BE DRAGONS
I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit. Christopher Hitchens
He told the Privy Council, sitting at the Supreme Court, there had been an abuse of process through a variety of "devilry". BBC News - Home
The privy council agreed with his judgment. Times, Sunday Times
And like as they were inobedient to their superior, right so their members began to move against their superior, which is reason, and they felt their first moving in their privy members, and thereof they were ashamed. The Golden Legend, vol. 1
Male animals differ from one another, as has been said, in this particular, but all female animals are retromingent: even the female elephant like other animals, though she has the privy part below the thighs. The History of Animals
In 1593 he was summoned to appear before the Privy Council, accused of heresy, and released on bail while evidence was gathered against him.
Where privy pits, soakage pits, or sewage absorption systems penetrate 'he water table of an aquifer located near the surface and shallow wells and springs whose water comes from the aquifer are contaminated. Chapter 6
The threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism, say the few experts privy to its contents.
On May 28, the Privy Council authorized a Mr. Smith to visit Elizabeth to discuss one of her properties because it "doth moche importe hym to speke wth the ladye Elizabeth. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
The man behind him rode up beside him and leaned close, a miasma rising around Abasio like that of an untended privy. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
A boiler house, added in wartime and used as an outside privy, took the likely place of the original front door. Times, Sunday Times
Can you forgive these borish letters; can you excuse my leaving you to go and sup with Sir Ch [arle] s in Privy Garden? George Selwyn His Letters and His Life
Terms such as toilet and lavatory have, like privy, undergone pejoration over the years (that is, their meanings have acquired depreciatory connotations). VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4
A brass outside privy with a top-hatted gentleman seated within was bid to 88. Times, Sunday Times
Counsel shall not perish from the wise; the administration of public affairs shall always be lodged with the privy-counsellors and ministers of state, to whom it belongs; nor shall the word perish from the prophets -- they mean those of their own choosing, who prophesied to them smooth things, and flattered them with visions of peace. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Anno 1270, at [6602] Magdeburg in Germany, a Jew fell into a privy upon a Saturday, and without help could not possibly get out; he called to his fellows for succour, but they denied it, because it was their Sabbath, non licebat opus manuum exercere; the bishop hearing of it, the next day forbade him to be pulled out, because it was our Sunday. Anatomy of Melancholy
They can provide people with the feeling that they are privy to secret knowledge. Times, Sunday Times
The Privy Council wrote to Henry that they had visited Mary often recently "whoe god be thanked is in prosperous health and convalescence. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
To ensure he still had a roof over his head, he would have needed to have a sound idea of how his lord felt about others, and to enable him to avoid any clangers, he would have been privy to much gossip and tittle-tattle.
I'm fairly confident that the vast majority of my fellow Americans know the word, if at all, only as a part of some weird British institutions; "privy to" is a highfaluting phrase over here and would be used only as a show of erudition, and even those who know the phrase would I suspect be unable to tell you what exactly "privy" means. Languagehat.com: TRANSLATION PROBLEMS.
There you can be a fly on the wall and listen in on the conversations that men are rarely privy to.
She had to share her cousin's bed on a verandah and use an outside privy across a cowfield.
Thus returning towards the camp, with their bare swords in their hands, they saluted him as Caesar; whereupon Martialis, the tribune in charge of the watch, who was, they say, noways privy to it, but was simply surprised at the unexpectedness of the thing, and afraid to refuse, permitted him entrance. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
‘I will delate you for a warlock to the Privy Council!’ said Sir John. Redgauntlet
Anne, whom he had courted in 1682, made him lord privy seal and promoted him in 1703 to the dukedom made available by the death of the second Villiers duke.
William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, was currently serving as a privy councilor, captain-general of English contingent at St. Quentin, and lord president of the council in Marches of Wales. 120 From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
And under these rooms, a fair and large cellar sunk under ground; and likewise some privy kitchens, with butteries and pantries, and the like. XLV. Of Building
My doctoral dissertation was a study of his privy chamber and its staff. Times, Sunday Times
The government has determined to replace appeals to the Privy Council with a new two tier Supreme Court above the current Court of Appeal.
I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit. Christopher Hitchens
Hacking also becomes useful in tapping into intranet networks, making you privy to who is talking about what.
And in 1598 the Privy Council confirmed this arrangement by granting them a joint monopoly.
Despite its being known as the Authorized Version, it was never publicly authorized by parliament, convocation, privy council, or king.
Proceedings in our possession, that he was concerned in the misconduct of the braminees, complained of by the Nabob in the year 1770, which rendered it necessary for his Highness to take the jaghire into his own hands, or that he was privy to or could have prevented those disturbances. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
Only those who were privy in estate with the person to whom the warranty was originally given, could vouch the original warrantor. The Common Law
The best he could find was a place near the anchor's chains on the forecastle, near the cathead the crew uses as a privy.
And if he had made that boast, would it have remained privy to the colleagues?
The fact that all the acts were performed in pursuance of an antecedent plan, and death ensued from the execution of that plan, appeared to be crucial to the decision of the Privy Council.
Add to that a bus tour of the quarry where political prisoners excavated limestone and dug themselves a privy, and the beach where those who are now the country's leaders gathered kelp, and the value is beyond question.
But the Prime Minister might have been a little hasty in serving notice to the Privy Council that "we are moving out."
a public and solemn execution, he does justice upon himself, and, after his reputation for wisdom, by this last act puts a far greater disgrace upon himself than Absalom's privy-council had put upon him, and answers his name Ahithophel, which signifies, the brother of a fool. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)
The confusion with pornography arises because Greenblatt equates eroticism with spirituality, and compels us to witness sexual intimacies to which we are not normally privy.
They argued that the later Privy Council decision R v HM Advocate had held that it was ultra vires for the procurator fiscal to bring proceedings before a temporary sheriff.
I was replacing a Framus flat-top, built like a brick privy.
These kind of dodgy deals and payments happen at every club, and practically every transfer, but most people privy to the information know that it is in their best interests to keep schtum.
The king and his consort had privy kitchens to serve them.
Merlin was not privy to the contents of the message.
Privy and closet are examples of euphemism by metonymy, which is the substitution of the name of an attribute of a thing for the thing itself: a toilet is a private place, therefore a privy. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4
They argued that the royal privy council was the sole repository of good government.
The ancient practice of "pricking" a name on a piece of parchment presented to Her Majesty at a meeting of the Privy Council is how she gives her assent to that individual becoming a High Sheriff. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
privy to inner knowledge
Were they prevailed on to call a privy meeting tomorrow, with a loaded quorum, Hauksberg would depart with the authority he needed. Ensign Flandry
She came to a stop outside the outer door to the king's privy chamber, swallowing hard.
But, as has been said, the Privy Councillorship was an office, not a title, although with a title attaching to the office; and in theory, at least, a scientific Privy Councillor might some day play an important part as an accredited representative of science, to be consulted officially by the Government, should occasion arise. The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
The candlestick to light the way to the old outside privy at Exeter cottage is still upstairs.
I didn't use actual slang words, per se, except for "necessary" (which is what ladies called the privy or outhouse). Slayground: Interview: Kirby Larson
The bones, shells, and fruit pits found in the privy suggest a household well supplied with food and drink.
Sundays were further elevated as the principal court day with new regulations governing behaviour at chapel, and the privacy and dignity of Charles's privy lodgings were reinforced.
For a century, they bestrode court and country, privy to the innermost controversy.
The oil ran down inside his clothes to his privy parts and he cried out, O my privities! The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The museum is filled with trivia about the world of the toilet, otherwise known as the commode, bog, loo, dunny, convenience, privy, hiding hall, john, private chapel and necessary room.
She was then leader of the Commons, lord privy seal and minister for women and equality. Times, Sunday Times
It is her courtiers who seem not to grasp that the privy purse is filled by the public's increasingly tatty wallet. Times, Sunday Times
We also pointed out that the introduction of the outside privy in the late 19th century was a major step forward for sanitation, and that these modest buildings were therefore part of the social history of the area.
After moving in, I built a raised platform and installed a toilet seat, converting the privy from a squatter to a sitter.
And when such persons make water, the stone forced down by the urine falls into the neck of the bladder and stops the urine, and occasions intense pain; so that calculous children rub their privy parts and tear at them, as supposing that the obstruction to the urine is situated there. On Airs, Waters, And Places
I am of opinion, and so I believe will Mr. Crossmyloof and the Privy Council, that this rising in effeir of war, to take away the life of a reprieved man, will prove little better than perduellion. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete
The team watches the success of its efforts from another room, not privy to reaping the benefits firsthand.
For example, one by-law informs householders they must make sure they clean their outside privy at least once a week or face the stiff penalty of a £2 fine.
The United States also has been privy to increased chatter regarding possible terror attacks.
From what I've - from what my attorneys have told me, all of the attorneys, actually involved it this on the defense side, feel very confident about the privy counsel.
I am of opinion, and so I believe will Mr. Crossmyloof and the Privy Council, that this rising in effeir of war, to take away the life of a reprieved man, will prove little better than perduellion. '' The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Calgary has been privy to teases of his product at shops such as Oxygen in Bankers Hall, and in Kensington at both Brooklyn for men and Splash for women.
Then she jumped off the step, raced to the only private place she knew - the outside privy - and sobbed her heart out.
After all, his first act had been to be sealed in a privy. Times, Sunday Times
I am of opinion, and so I believe will Mr. Crossmyloof and the Privy Council, that this rising in effeir of war, to take away the life of a reprieved man, will prove little better than perduellion. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1
Which is healthier: the Prince, as privy councillor, getting out his fountain pen, or a billionaire lushing up Peter Mandelson on a yacht? Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
She was not privy to any information contained in the letters.
Some Church leaders have already been privy to advanced showings of the film.
Since Thanjavur became a British residency in 1885 and the rulers were not granted a privy purse, the palace has nothing of the sweep and dimensions of the other grander princely houses in the country.
The privy council originally consisted of senior courtiers who advised the sovereign. Times, Sunday Times
Particular care, however, needs to be taken where the plaintiff in the second action is not the same as the plaintiff in the first, but his privy.
Gabii under a close subjection, the king, mistrusting the messenger, made him no answer, and only took him into his privy garden, and in his presence with his sword lopped off the heads of the tall poppies that were there. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4
For this they take for a very evil token, as though the soul being in despair and vexed in conscience, through some privy and secret forefeeling of the punishment now at hand, were afraid to depart. The Second Book. Of the Religions in Utopia
I find that in 1631 our house of burgesses desired of the privy council in England, a coin debased to twenty-five per cent.; that in 1645 they forbid dealing by barter for tobacco, and established the Spanish piece of eight at six shillings, as the standard of their currency; that in 1655 they changed it to five shillings sterling. Notes on the State of Virginia
She justified her request that Lady Tyrwitt be replaced as her governess "bicause ... the people wil say that I deserved throwgh my lewde demenure" to have a new governess. 133 In this same letter, she thanked Somerset for authorizing the Privy Council to issue orders that the "ivel reportes" about her be quelled. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
People drink in their offices, they drink on horseback, they drink on the privy, they drink pretty much wherever and whenever they have a free hand.
It were a pity, Sir Earl, that the citizens, whom you thus deem privy to the thoughts of kings, had not prevised the Archbishop of Narbonne that if he desire to see a fairer show than even the palaces of The Last of the Barons — Volume 04
When it did not abate, she stumbled into the privy chamber. HERE BE DRAGONS
The word privy is one of the earliest euphemisms used in England; an anonymous writer at the turn of the fifteenth century advised VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4
All sorts of rumors had been circulating over the weeks prior, and me being the secretive type, derived a perverse pleasure in being privy to the real story.
She said it was difficult to imagine the derelict state of many of Bradford's old buildings in the 1950s and 1960s, when rents were low, and the properties usually had no water and a shared outside privy.
At the same time, despite the fact that the leakers are presumably privy to some or all of the grand jury testimony so far, they're either unable or unwilling to provide any genuinely juicy leaks.
Hidden away under a large yew tree was the privy or earth closet, our only toilet facilities.
A cataclysmic upheaval was experienced by the other princely families when the privy purses were abolished in 1971.
We treat social security numbers and bank routing numbers as though they were authentication secrets that only the assignee is privy to, then we print them on every form submitted to any organization for any purpose. The Volokh Conspiracy » What TSA is doing
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I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit. Christopher Hitchens
I'm not a judge nor a jury, nor am I privy to any of the evidence.
His eyes seemed to plead with Privy Seal, who paced the gallery in short, pursy strides, his plump hands hidden in the furs behind his back. Privy Seal His Last Venture
Those of us in the industry that are not privy to the details of the propulsion system guess the pearls are the result of a pulse jet type systems.
It is not enough for a few savants to be privy to esoteric mathematical knowledge for that knowledge to be influential in a wider culture.
After all, this was the same woman who, a few weeks later, would yell at privy councilors from a second-story window that it was stupid of them to assume that her servants could influence her in any way. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
Cromwell was lead out to the block and read his sentence, something about treason against the crown and some other things the Privy Council thought up.
Again, I'm not privy to why they fine them, other than I know there was a $5,000 fine.
Peeping through the lowered venetians of yesteryear (recollection as a species of voyeurism is very Ishiguro), the retrovert is privy to a series of partial visions that eventually reveal a life guided by calamitous misapprehension on his part. New Fiction
Monarchies have privy councils composed of titled mediocrities who advise their temporal lords. Archive 2006-10-01
And under these rooms, a fair and large cellar, sunk under ground; and likewise some privy kitchens, with butteries and pantries, and the like. The Essays
Not many people had her com number, not the portable one anyway, they all called her via privy line at the office or at home.
One can only hope our elected leaders, the only ones privy to the facts, truly are acting in the best interests of that pipe-dream they call global ‘peace’.
However, she is unhappy that her application to put a wooden summerhouse in her newly-landscaped garden has been rejected by planning officers on the grounds that it would be in the vicinity of the privy.
Hummelstown brownstone traversed the gamut of the masonry trades from foundation to lintel, mansion to privy, bridge abutment to gravestone, skyscraper to curbstone, and so on for seemingly endless uses.
A cross-party committee of Privy Counsellors has produced a report which heavily criticises this part of the Act.
On the steps to the throne the eldest sons of peers and privy councilors were privileged to stand during the sittings of the House of Lords. Daily Life in the British Parliament: The House of Lords | Edwardian Promenade
After the Boston Tea Party, Franklin was brought before the Privy Council, and denounced by Wedderburn, the solicitor-general, as a mischievous incendiary and a man no one could trust.
The privy - purse never influenced his judgment in law - suits involving money.
Only after two years' delay was her favourite admitted to the Privy Council, and he was not ennobled as Earl of Leicester until 1564.
We are only privy to snippets of information and media speculation, whereas he has all the factors to consider.
The tiny main door like the outfall of a medieval privy -- How long do I get, anyway? THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
He is the second privy counsellor to be ejected in 200 years. Times, Sunday Times
Shivering, he mooched outside to what Uncle Gib called the privy and he the “bog.” Portobello
Before the American experiments in constitutionalism, the most prominent example of a “president” was the presiding officer in the king’s privy council in Stuart times. Matthew Yglesias » Presidential Trouble
That was a decision of the Privy Council on appeal from the Supreme Court of Canada regarding a case governed by the law of Quebec.
Peeping through the lowered venetians of yesteryear (recollection as a species of voyeurism is very Ishiguro), the retrovert is privy to a series of partial visions that eventually reveal a life guided by calamitous misapprehension on his part. New Fiction
Bors, with their fellowship of ten thousand men, were put in a wood here beside, in an ambushment, and keep them privy, and that they be laid or the light of the day come, and that they stir not till ye and your knights have fought with them long. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
I am of opinion, and so I believe will Mr. Crossmyloof and the Privy Council, that this rising in effeir of war, to take away the life of a reprieved man, will prove little better than perduellion. '' The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Fortunately we're able to pass the time walking backwards and forwards to the outside privy at the bottom of the yard and moving the coal in and out of the bath for our annual wash.
There is already a precedent for this because local residents (including my family) all have concessionary tickets to the privy gardens and have had them since they were replanted.
A report by a group of privy counsellors predicts that most calls will be made via the internet within five years. Times, Sunday Times
The man behind him rode up beside him and leaned close, a miasma rising around Abasio like that of an untended privy. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
He was offered the post of clerk to the Privy Council or of Ambassador to Savoy.
When it did not abate, she stumbled into the privy chamber. HERE BE DRAGONS
All the while we're privy to Bridget's innermost thoughts as she discovers the pratfalls and perils of being a single woman in the city.
Bacillus coli inhabits the internal tract of cattle as well as of man, but when in a farmyard the privy is as near to the shallow well as is the dung heap, it is not exactly safe to suppose that these and other contaminating microbes are derived only from harmless cattle. War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps
They were accused of being privy to the plot against the king.
I'm not privy to the inner workings except through the grapevine.
About 40,000 people were privy to the technical rehearsal and yet most of them kept mum. Times, Sunday Times
Why is the public too dumb to understand the Privy Council, too unscientific to understand genetic engineering, but is now an expert on nuclear fission?

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