279 Verbs to Use for the Word privileges

They are perishing for lack of knowledge, while I enjoy the glorious privileges of a Christian land.

The text of the document granting the privilege is obscurely worded.

To say that he is presumptuous makes him an inferior (or at least not a superior) who claims privileges or takes liberties improperly.

"No, Acton," answered Mr. Welsby; "as long as the school continues to be disgraced by these repeated theftsas, for example, this recent instance of Morris's watch and chainI do not feel inclined to allow the same privileges as before.

They were not at all rough with him, but gave him the privilege of leaving the place within twenty-four hours, after which he was informed that he was liable to be shot if seen by them in the locality.

Brooding on this, brooding on the unhappiness of his own disposition, which denied him the privilege of enjoying the best at the moment, indifferent to what might be behind, Wesley had come to hate the Atterburys for the burden of an obligation that he could never lift.

See "ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF PRINTING," viii, i. Venice by a treaty with Turkey secures trade privileges in Greece.

"You are strangers, I see, or you would have understood that I am exercising my baronial privilege of doing myself justice.

Inspector Chippenfield did not regard his principal witness in the forthcoming murder trial as the sort of man likely to bolt, but if he permitted him for politic reasons to retain his liberty, he took every precaution to ensure that Hill should not abuse his privilege.

The distinction itself was merely a nominal one and conferred no privilege upon a person except that of holding certain priestly offices, which could be filled by none but patricians, and for which their number was scarcely sufficient.

It was a fanatical uprising of the lower classes to obtain still greater political privileges, led by extreme radicals, of whom Mr. Feargus O'Connor was the most prominent leader, and Mr. Henry Vincent was the most popular speaker.

But as the ignorance of the age encouraged the ecclesiastics daily to extend their privileges, and even to advance maxims totally incompatible with civil government

They sat by a double title: by prescription, as having always possessed that privilege, through the whole Saxon period, from the first establishment of Christianity; and by their right of baronage, as holding of the king IN CAPITE, by military service.

The old man with the bald pate was seating himself at the head of the board, and Johnnie asked the privilege of helping wait on table.

A rage for adopting English fashionsAnglomanie, as it was calledbegan to prevail; and, among the different modes in which it exhibited itself, it is especially noticed that tea was now introduced, and began to share with coffee the privileges of affording sober refreshment to those who aspired in their different ways to give the tone to French society.

In the smaller crises of life it is usually the woman who takes this privilege upon herself; but the larger situations need a man's steadier grasp.

Not that the Quebec Act was a dead letterfar from itbut simply that it could not go beyond restoring the privileges of the French-Canadian priests and seigneurs within the area then effectively occupied by the French-Canadian race.

No, gentlemen, you are going to lose your trading privileges, I think.

Phillips, on his first arrival in this country, entered into a diplomatic contest with the Moorish authorities, demanding the privileges of a native British-born Jew, and he determined to ride a horse, in order to vindicate the rights of British Jews, before the awful presence of the Shereefian Court!

The Federalist leaders saw in the ascendency of the people the triumphs of demagogy, the ignoring of experience in government, the reign of passions, unenlightened measures leading to financial and political ruin, and would therefore restrict the privilege, or, as some would say, the right, of suffrage.

I count it a privilege to hold the hand of a brave man.

But apparently it told how Admetus, King of Pherae in Thessaly, received from Apollo a special privilege which the God had obtained, in true Satyric style, by making the Three Fates drunk and cajoling them.

Her Majesty the Queen-Regent of Holland has graciously accorded special permission to the writer of the following article to visit the Royal Palaces of Amsterdam and The Hague to obtain photographs for publication in this Magazine: a privilege of the greatest value, which is now accorded for the first time, the palaces never before having been photographed.

The Alexandrians called him Cæsarion, and she never swerved from asserting for him royal privileges.

As there was a male branch association about to be organized, he begged the privilege of enrolling his name as an honorary member, and promised to be a constant contributor to its funds.

279 Verbs to Use for the Word  privileges