"Privity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... parties examined by the committee, were Mr. James and Mr. Burns, of Nashville, Tenn., and Senator Fowler, of that State, and also the Secretary of war, Mr. Stanton. No facts whatever were elicited showing a privity to corruption in these matters on the ...
— History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, • Edumud G. Ross
... others. Why dwell upon it? Of course it was the deed for which he was searching. Nina, when from her station by the wall she saw that there was something in her lover's hands of which she had no knowledge—something which had been in her own desk without her privity—came forward a step or two, looking with all her eyes. But she did not speak till he had spoken; nor did he speak at once. He slowly unfolded the document, and perused the heading of it; then he refolded it, and placed it on the table, and ...
— Nina Balatka • Anthony Trollope
... thy love That thou so oft hast sworn to me, To leave me in this lonely grove, Immured in shameful privity? ...
— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 - Sorrow and Consolation • Various
... treasury of the Company, without yielding one advantage or possible resource, even of remote benefits, in return," the said Warren Hastings did nevertheless, on or about the month of March, 1783, with the privity and consent of the members of the board, but by no authoritative act, dispatch, as agents of him, the Governor-General only, and not as agents of the Governor-General and Council, as they ought to have been, certain persons, among whom were Major Browne and Major ...
— The Works Of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. IX. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
... was resolved on; so they drew Joseph up out of the pit, and sold him to the merchants for twenty pounds [2] He was now seventeen years old. But Reubel, coming in the night-time to the pit, resolved to save Joseph, without the privity of his brethren; and when, upon his calling to him, he made no answer, he was afraid that they had destroyed him after he was gone; of which he complained to his brethren; but when they had told him what they had done, ...
— The Antiquities of the Jews • Flavius Josephus
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