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Sentences ending with privilege

We all feel your deep trouble with you; and we would hope, if we might, but your words deny us that privilege. [5]
And, if the world will no longer tolerate the old theories, a tribute may at least be paid to those who from conviction upheld them; who ruled, perhaps in affluence, yet were also willing to toil and, if need be, to die for the privilege. [9]
Don't be angry with me for exercising an old woman's privilege. [2]
Here, he said, was the paradise of his home, the long-sought-for opportunity; he felt as though he could send a million supplications to the throne of Heaven for such an exalted privilege. [5]
Everybody knows I want to be governor, everybody knows I've got twenty thousand dollars in the bank to pay for that privilege. [9]
How she coveted the many Union families, whose sons and brothers were at the front, this privilege! [9]
It is my right and my privilege. [5]
She had that privilege. [5]
There is, however, one condition in particular attached to this privilege. [10]
We could do nothing till then, and I lost no time in getting out of the office, and was grateful indeed for the privilege. [5]

Short sentences using privilege

What a privilege! [8]

Sentences containing privilege two or more times

But it was in the morning, and the Senator was using a privilege of his office which I had not heard of--the privilege of intruding upon the Chief Magistrate's working hours. [5]
The privilege had been used but once in the present Seigneur's day, because the criminal must be put upon the road from the chapel by the Seigneur himself, and he had used his privilege modestly. [11]

More example sentences with the word privilege in them

They trust that you will receive it as an expression of sincere regard and affection from friends, who will, one and all, esteem it a great privilege to be permitted to assist in the restoration of your home. [6]
I understood that you were a man of letters, and I hoped I might have the privilege of hearing from your own lips some account of your literary experiences. [6]
And this, if you like, is practical,--so practical that the men like you, who have gained unexampled privilege, fear it more and more. [9]
The privilege of working such a mine one week would be sufficient for a man of reasonable desires. [5]
He shall fight with his own weapons; it was his privilege to choose them and bring them. [5]
Ursula started homeward, with Agnes in her arms, and I said I wished I had her privilege of seeing Marget. [5]
The things for which her mother had striven she took for granted, and thought of them not at all, and she had by nature that simplicity and astonishing frankness of manner and speech which was once believed to be an exclusive privilege of duchesses. [9]
What a privilege, what a happiness, to be so fortunate as to see it! [10]
Here all were welcome, even the light-fingered gentlemen who enjoyed the privilege of police protection; and who sometimes, through fortuitous circumstances, were hauled before the very magistrates with whom they had rubbed elbows on the polished rail. [9]
And still the Uraeus snake--the asp whose bite caused almost instant death, reared its head as the time-honored emblem of this privilege, by the side of St. George the Dragon-slayer, over the palaces of the Mukaukas at Memphis, and at Lykopolis in Upper Egypt. [10]
At noon we took a swim in the Sea of Galilee--a blessed privilege in this roasting climate--and then lunched under a neglected old fig-tree at the fountain they call Ain-et-Tin, a hundred yards from ruined Capernaum. [5]
Let me talk to you with an old man's privilege, as an adviser. [6]
Pudd'nhead Wilson advanced to meet them, and said anxiously: "I must say a word in behalf of my principal's proxy, Count Luigi, to whom you have kindly granted the privilege of fighting my principal's battle for him. [5]
Moses had seemed to lay the utmost stress upon this privilege, and according to the existing law, no one was permitted to cross the narrow fortified frontier on the east without the permission of the government. [10]
Would you like to grant me the privilege of placing the whole jacquard business of the world in the grip of a single Company? [5]
The law ought to extend the privilege to all of us. [5]
I was going to answer it for her right away, and said so; but she reserved the privilege to herself. [5]
If at any time there was any idea that it could be controlled only by those who represented names honored for a hundred years, or conspicuous by any social privilege, the idea was swamped in popular feeling. [4]
Here and there, through the history of these centuries, there have been those who have entered into this belief of their own privilege and duty, and have used the gift which they recognized. [5]
The privilege of this sort of secret is, however, an inheritance of Eve. [4]
I formally declare this reading-room open, and I think that the legislature should not compel a community to provide itself with intelligent food, but give it the privilege of providing it if the community so desires. [5]
He had done things which one might laugh at, but the privilege of laughing was limited always to the thing itself; you could not laugh at the motive back of it--that was high, that was noble. [5]
Presently one of them stepped out of the rank and said: "You don't know me, Mr. Twichell; but I know your daughter, and that gives me the privilege of shaking hands with you. [5]
I have seen them more than once for a moment, but have not had the privilege of knowing them personally as intimately as I wanted to. [5]
The satire of the remark is essentially true of Boston,--and of all other considerable--and inconsiderable--places with which I have had the privilege of being acquainted. [6]
If I had the privilege, which unfortunately I have not got, of suggesting things to the legislators in my individual capacity, I would so enjoy the opportunity that I would not charge anything for it at all. [5]
Judge Douglas had the privilege of replying to me at Galesburgh, and again he gave me no direct answer as to whether he would or would not sustain such a decision if made. [7]
The party had the privilege of idling through this ancient quarter of New Orleans with the South's finest literary genius, the author of 'the Grandissimes. [5]
I have had the privilege of examining and of showing some of you a number of Dr. Dean's skilful preparations. [3]
I have had the privilege of examining a manuscript of Cotton Mather's relating to medicine, by the kindness of the librarian of the American Antiquarian Society, to which society it belongs. [3]
And I maintain the privilege of an American citizen to set my own standards, within the law, and to be the sole arbitrar of those standards. [9]
Her feeling for the poor shows that she has a standard of benevolence; there she has conceded the millionaire's privilege of having a standard; since she evidently requires him to adopt her standard, she is by that act requiring herself to adopt his. [5]
Some time ago the people were granted the privilege of a free wash-up. [5]
If he made the more noise, it was the privilege of his bulk. [5]
The privilege of the floor--a seat, as it is called--in this temple of the god Chance to be Rich is worth more than a seat in the Cabinet. [4]
Pollux will be the first among his fellow-artists, and it has been my privilege to discover this new star--the eighth artist whose merit I have detected while he was still unknown. [10]
They show that the duel has a singular fascination about it somewhere, for these free men, so far from resting upon the privilege of the badge, are always volunteering. [5]
Myrtle had exercised the customary privilege of young ladies at parties, and had turned from talking with one to talking with another,--that was all. [6]
During its course the apples and pears were gathered, and an old privilege allowed the pupils "to glean"--that is, to claim the fruit left on the trees. [10]
You tell him that you'll build a quartz mill on his property, and make him a fourth or a third, or half owner in said mill in consideration of the privilege of using said property--and that will bring him to his milk in a jiffy. [5]
It was decided that we have a case of rebellion, and that the public safety does require the qualified suspension of the privilege of the writ which was authorized to be made. [7]
To satisfy himself that this spot was really the centre of the earth, a sceptic once paid well for the privilege of ascending to the dome of the church to see if the sun gave him a shadow at noon. [5]
I see clearly that such a privilege would be more available now than it was then. [7]
Is nobody allowed that high privilege but himself? [7]
To you, more than to any others, the privilege is given to assure that happiness and swell that grandeur, and to link your own names therewith forever. [7]
His name was Tarautas, and he was known throughout the empire as the most brutal of gladiators, for he had also earned the further privilege of never fighting but for life or death, and never under any circumstances either granting or asking quarter. [10]
Another privilege of talking is to misquote.--Of course it wasn't Proserpina that actually cut the yellow hair,--but Iris. [6]
She had seen such people as these hurrying in automobiles through the ugliness of Faber Street in Hampton toward just such delectable spots as this village of Kingsbury--people of that world of freedom and privilege from which she was excluded; Ditmar's world. [9]
Massachusetts is a sovereign and independent State; and it is no privilege of mine to scold her for what she does. [7]
No one has so well earned the privilege of abolishing this pestilent limb of Satan. [5]
Military experts?--since what she had come to apply for was an army and the privilege of leading it to battle against the enemies of France. [5]
He sat from seven every evening until two in the morning, listening to the fond foolishness of the two lovers, and to the concussion of hundreds of squandered kisses--for the privilege of sharing only one of which he would have given his right hand. [5]
That is to say, a company had bought the privilege of taking from the mine 5,000,000 carloads of blue-rock, for a sum down and a royalty. [5]
Col. Selby, he said, belonged, gentlemen; to what is called the "upper classes:" It is the privilege of the "upper classes" to prey upon the sons and daughters of the people. [5]
In it she said she had come a hundred and fifty leagues to bring him good news, and begged the privilege of delivering it in person. [5]
Any violations of said conditions will involve the forfeiture and condemnation of the vessel and cargo, and the exclusion of all parties concerned from any further privilege of entering the United States during the war for any purpose whatever. [7]
There were disagreeable results, several times, and so we very seldom ask or grant the privilege, nowadays, and we never even think of such a thing unless the case is extremely urgent. [5]
St. Paul's letters render it certain that these gifts were not a privilege of the original twelve, merely, but that they were the heritage into which all the disciples entered. [5]
There is no reason why an author should pay for the privilege of a long life by the loss of his copyrights, and that his old age should be embittered by poverty because he cannot have the results of the labor of his vigorous years. [4]
How much better reason he had to use the privilege in which man possesses an advantage over the immortals, of putting himself to death with his own hand when he deems the fitting time has come! [10]
It is the reader's privilege to determine for himself how the thing came out. [5]
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. [6]
It was a--a privilege to see your mother every day--oh, how he would talk of you! [9]
It was his privilege to say how the elections should go. [5]
It is a privilege to meet such a person now and then, and let him have his full swing. [6]
It is my privilege to compliment him in return. [5]
It is the privilege of the novelist, without introducing into such a career what is called disaster, to satisfy our innate love of justice by letting us see the true nature of such prosperity. [4]
It is the privilege of the law to prove the crime against me. [11]
I had the privilege of meeting Alexander von Humboldt at a small dinner party, and his image is vividly imprinted on my memory. [10]
He enjoyed the privilege of constant companionship with one of the warmest hearts and finest intellects which I have ever known in a woman,--the 'ame d'elite' which has passed beyond this earth. [6]
America, whose precious privilege it is to call herself the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. [5]
The persistence of privilege is an unexplained thing in human affairs, and the consent of mankind to be led in government and in fashion by those to whom none of the original conditions of leadership attach is a philosophical anomaly. [4]
How much of privilege had been gathered and perpetuated in a century? [4]
I would always prefer to have the privilege of printing a serious and sensible remark, in case one occurred to me, without the reader's feeling obliged to consider himself outraged. [5]
If his mental posture were further analyzed, it might be made out to contain an intimation that the rector, by some act, had forfeited the right to the unique privilege of the old relationship. [9]
For color, and picturesqueness, and novelty, and outlandishness, and sustained interest and fascination, it was the most satisfying show I had ever seen, and I suppose I shall not have the privilege of looking upon its like again. [5]
By a hardy perversion of privilege on the part of the lawmaking power the Bible has perpetual copyright in Great Britain. [5]
Likewise in review passed the lonely months when Timothy was fighting behind his rugged General Stark for that privilege more desirable to his kind than life--self government. [9]
He had his own especial table in the dining-room, called all the waiters by their first names, and they fought for the privilege of attending him. [9]
When you start out to "do" the Falls you first drive down about a mile, and pay a small sum for the privilege of looking down from a precipice into the narrowest part of the Niagara River. [5]
Just at nightfall our party of three contracted with a waterman for the privilege of using his boat as a bridge--its stern was at our companion ladder and its bow touched the pier. [5]
They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. [7]
Parents were more or less in the situation of the candidates who desired the honour and privilege of whitewashing Tom Sawyer's fence. [9]
Such is my opinion, and none that had the privilege to see them would say otherwise than this which I have said concerning them. [5]
For their sakes only he desired to go to his death, sword in hand, like a valiant knight in league with those who were risking their lives in defence of the ancient privilege of their class. [10]
By the laws of war she could not be denied the privilege of ransom. [5]
The last Earl of the line fell in the wars of the Commonwealth fighting for the King, and the odd privilege ended with him. [5]
Barnum offers rate of $4,000 a year for exclusive privilege of using elephant as traveling advertising medium from now till detectives find him. [5]
Upon a certain occasion, nine years ago, I had said, with strong feeling, 'If ever I see St. Louis again, I will seek out Mr. Brown, the great grain merchant, and ask of him the privilege of shaking him by the hand. [5]
Old Sarum is now best remembered by its long-surviving privilege, as a borough, of sending two members to Parliament. [6]
Well, there was nothing to do but just submit and forego the privilege of voyaging on Genessaret, after coming half around the globe to taste that pleasure. [5]
I'll take care not to tell you next time, when I think I am looking specially old and ugly; as if people could not have that privilege, without being supposed to be at the last gasp! [14]
Dame Joanna would not forego the privilege of giving him a resting-place and taking care of him till the end. [10]
The hotels are not always as good as they might be, and the stranger who has access to the Club is grateful for his privilege and knows how to value it. [5]
At any rate, nobody could find fault with the points of Miss Marilla Van Deusen, to whom he offered the privilege of becoming Mrs. Rowens. [6]
Vishnu has 108 names which he does not use in business, and no doubt it is a custom of gods and a privilege sacred to their order to keep 108 extra ones in stock. [5]
I considered it my lawful privilege to paint much that was pure invention, but nothing that was not possible at the period I was representing. [10]
There was a moment's absolute silence, and then she said, with cold condescension: "By what privilege do you seek our presence? [11]
After a few minutes the gentlemen stood erect, and the ladies rose again, but even the oldest duchesses were not allowed the privilege of sitting in their sovereign's presence. [10]
Now, can we, mindful of the blessings of liberty which the early men of Illinois left to us, refuse a like privilege to the free men who seek to plant Freedom's banner on our Western outposts? [7]

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