A period of domestic privacy in association with literary occupation and study followed.

Exactly reversing Terrestrial practice, a Martial wife reserves for strictest domestic privacy that undressed full-dress, that frank revelation of her beauty, which the matrons of London, Paris, or New York think exclusively appropriate to the most public occasions.

Madam, I have occasions of importance Wishes a little privacy with you.

Let us go, my friends, and leave them to forgive one another as they will desire to do in decent privacy.

It was a question of negotiating with the utmost privacy for the purchase of a small strip of land between two large plots already acquired by purchasers cautiously designated by Moffatt as his "parties."

There is indeed scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets; nor any man eminent for extent of capacity, or greatness of exploits, that has not left behind him some memorials of lonely wisdom, and silent dignity.

There was no cruel tearing of the veil from those sacred privacies of the human affectionthere was no forensic shouting out of those fond confidences meant only for one.

Add too, the sweetness Of thy honied voice; the neatness Of thine ankle lightly turn'd: With those beauties, scarce discerned, Kept with such sweet privacy, That they seldom meet the eye Of the little loves that fly Round about with eager pry.

" Of every great and eminent character, part breaks forth into publick view, and part lies hid in domestick privacy.

It is the living ecstacy of joy when it mounts up into its "glorious privacy of light."

Happy as the sisters were in their home, it must not be supposed that they had settled down to a life of ease and contented privacy, abandoning altogether the great work of their lives.

" In Aubrey's posthumous work on Surrey, published in 1718, the northern part of the hill is described as thickly covered with yew-trees, and the southern part with "thick boscages of box-trees," which "yielded a convenient privacy for lovers, who frequently meet here, so that it is an English Daphne."

Add to this and much else the loss of the sweet unconscious cool privacy among the 'reeds' ... which I for one care so much forthe loss of the privilege of being glad or sorry, ill or well, without a 'notice.'

The death of her mother soon followed, so that she spent the summer of 1807 in extreme privacy, until persuaded by her constant friend Madame de Staël to pay her a visit at her country-seat near Geneva, where she met Prince Frederick of Prussia, nephew of the great Frederic, who became so enamored of her that he sought her hand in marriage.

"The highest stations cannot, therefore, hope to be the abodes of happiness, which I would willingly believe to have fled from thrones and palaces to seats of humble privacy, and placid obscurity.

It was in vain we called and sought him, and only after two days was he discovered, in the remotest corner of a great rocky cellar, determined apparently to die alone in an almost inaccessible privacy of wood and coal.

There was no sound in the glade to disturb Peter's thoughts except a murmur of human voices from some of the innumerable privacies of the place, and the occasional chirp of a waxwing busy over clusters of cedar-balls.

Keith had become Wellander, and the first time he heard himself called by that name he blushed as deeply as if his most intimate privacy had suddenly been violated.

Few people disturbed the leafy privacy; a policeman sauntering southward noted him, perhaps for future identification.

Compare Daniel's 'Hymens Triumph', ii. 4: 'And where no sun could see him, where no eye Might overlook his lonely privacy; There in a path of his own making, trod Rare as a common way, yet led no way Beyond the turns he made.' Ed.]

The nobleman appeared surprised that a stranger, in the plain Quaker costume, should thus intrude upon his luxurious privacy.

"She seems to be a very good-hearted sort of a person," Niafer conceded, in matrimonial privacy, "though certainly she is rather queer.

And even my wrongs are not such as to justify my forcing myself upon the painful privacy of a sick-headache.

I traversed the very rooms in which she had sat, and conversed, and passed her hours of peaceful privacy.

Each movement is so quiet, yet so decided, so living, so human, that the radiant creature seems a Musidora of the water, and you almost blush with a sense of guilt, in gazing on that peerless privacy.