privily

Example Sentences

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Who knows not Fortune, glutted on easy thrones, Stealing from feasts as rare to coney-catch Privily in the hedgerows for a clown.

From Songs from Books by Kipling, Rudyard

The pottës that were worth pence five, He sold them for pence three; Privily said man and wife, ‘Yonder potter shall never thee.’

From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Sidgwick, Frank

Privily she conferred with a clerk she knew in Pierce's hardware store and made the purchase.

From The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack

Boarders! the worst I have not told to ye: She hath stolen my trousers, that I may not flee Privily by the window.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Warner, Charles Dudley