Told her friend privily that she was planning to be married. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Damnable heresies are commonly brought in privily, under the cloak and colour of truth. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference
(In Ga 2: 4 the same word is rendered, "came in privily."). From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Then Gawaine called privily in council all his brethren, and to them said thus: Fair brethren, here may ye see, whom that we hate. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
Dermod mac Ae delighted in these solitary adventures, and when he could steal a day from policy and affairs he would send word privily to. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Fairy Tales] Reference
Look in a garden-croft when a flower privily growing. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference
Si'Wren and Nelatha both loved to privily mock the moneymakers. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
In the way wherein I walked, have they privily laid a snare for me. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge] Reference
The mother of the bride regarded her also, and praised her privily. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
"I shall require some part of each day cloistered with you privily.". From Wordnik.com. [In the Garden of Iden] Reference
Wherefore she willed me privily to prepare my selfe to see the same. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Asse] Reference
You got a paper title out of Marquette's executors, privily, years ago. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
But Shelby had privily told her of the project and begged her to accept. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
Him she tempted to shoot privily at Menelaus to gain the favour of Paris. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
Ay, so as to pain thee, having unfolded the ills thou hast wrought privily. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.] Reference
But Tyndarus was privily making up such sort of speeches for him who wished your death to speak. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.] Reference
All that night he commanded thirty men privily to watch Fair-hands for to keep him from all treason. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference
If you confess your counsel privily to me, you cannot think that I shall show the matter to any man. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
Sir Ector told him, then, all about his royal birth, and how he had been taken privily away by Merlin. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
According to Matthew, when Mary told Joseph about the Annunciation, he was "minded to put her away privily.". From Wordnik.com. [Chris Kelly: National Sanctity of Human Life Day: The Musical] Reference
But when Galahad saw there would none turn again he stole away privily so that none wist where he was become. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, inquired of them diligently what time the star appeared. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls] Reference
Often she asked him privily, if she had come short or offended in any measure, whilst he was without the realm. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
So Ferdinand set about making his own peace privily with France, and trying to draw off Maximilian so as to isolate. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
The prince spoke privily to the boy as they ascended the great staircase leading to the presence chambers of Didion. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
Each prayed her privily for her love, and strove all that he could to make him worthy of the gift, above his fellows. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
In the meane season Philesiterus hearing the noise at the doore, slipt on his coat and privily ran out of the Chamber. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Asse] Reference
Already often have they been privily watched, but one may not interrupt them, only let them, come and go at their listing. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily. From Wordnik.com. [HISTORICAL TEXT: THE BIRTH OF JESUS] Reference
And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
Meanwhile the ancient city of Albany privily assorted its impressions of Shelby's wife, and awaited the dictum of Mrs. Teunis Van Dam. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
Sir Lancelot got them lodgings with a rich burgess, and so privily and closely did they keep the house that none knew that they were there. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
I observed that a certain player hit very much behind the leg, so there, "in the mad pride of intellectuality," I privily stationed myself. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 27, 1892] Reference
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