The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity.
They will respect= 15 =more each other's privacy than their communion, for therein is the fulfilment of our high aims and the conclusion of our arguments.
Mats at night were let down to afford such privacy and shelter as the habits of the people and the genial climate required.
The great chiefs, however, had houses in which privacy could be enjoyed; and there were guest-houses for the reception of visitors, or for the accommodation of the people of a whole district.
As a result, many of the passengers, not being able to adjust themselves to this unfamiliar change of motion, became suddenly pale, and prudently retired to the privacy of their staterooms.
May we not hope for some development of home life by which we may outgrow forever these coarse old customs, and learn a true refinement which keeps inviolate the privacy of both soul and body in the home?
In the one hundredth case, where some artist, author, or clergyman has to do his work at home--what is his opinion then of the privacy of that sacred place?
The young man setting up in "chambers," the young woman in college room or studio, at last they realise what privacy is, at last they have the right to be alone.
With great wealth, and a highly cultivated taste, we find the members of the family lodged in as much privacy and freedom as possible in a home, and agreeing to disagree where they are not in accord.
With the poor there is such crowding as renders it impossible; and with the rich there is another factor so absolutely prohibitive of privacy that the phrase becomes a laughing-stock.
The home does provide some privacy for the family as a lump--but it remains a lump--there is no privacy for the individual.
Does not this prove that our ideas of privacy are somewhat crude--and that they are kept crude--must remain crude so long as the home is thus vulgarly invaded by low-class strangers?
A whole series of revelations as to privacycomes here; a list so long and deep as to tempt a whole new chapter on that one theme.
The home, as we know it, does not furnish privacy to the individual, rich or poor.
The happy privacy of married love is at once lost.
We have seen that the privacy of the mother is at the mercy of four sets of invaders: children, servants, tradesmen, and callers.
Let us begin with one especially dominant domestic myth, that fondly cherished popular idea--"the privacy of the home.
Here the privacy of their conversation was interrupted by an exclamation from a young lady to the effect that Charlie Fairstairs was becoming sick.
When her aunt crept away with it after breakfast she had suspected nothing, and had never imagined that Lady Macleod, in the privacy of her own room looking out upon the stables, had addressed a letter to Nethercoats.
In the privacy of her imagination she had worked the thing out in half a dozen ways, all equally distressing.
The life of the king at Versailles had little of privacy in it.
There was more privacy there, and it formed an admirable retreat for such moments when the king did not wish to bask in publicity, and these moments were many, though one might not at first think so when reading of his affairs of state.
His sense of possession and privacy in possession of the beauties of nature exceeds Traherne's, whose ecstasy in the belief that he owned the world's treasuries was trebled by the thought that everybody else owned them too.
In the privacy of Wallingford's own room, Wallingford's dear Italian friend threw himself upon the bed and kicked up his heels like a boy, stuffing the corner of a pillow in his mouth to suppress his shrieks of laughter.
The mother, the sisters, and the nearest female friends remained in privacy together at the house of mourning.
He exchanges his privacy for the interest of the masses.
It seemed as if theprivacy of the marital chamber had been revealed to the world and discussed in the market-place.
But he cut away the bushes, and thus destroyed the privacy of my favorite haunt.
In the comparative privacy of his house, he will "walk with a perfect heart," ever seeking to translate his convictions of right into practice, and regulating his activities by conscience.
The custom of having chambers on the roof, for privacy and freshness, suggests the image.
In the privacy of her own bedroom she took the skirts of two or three of her frocks off the band, inserted a piece of lining for lengthening purposes, and then added a frill to the waists of her bodices to hide the join.
In its privacy she trimmed and retrimmed her hats, altered her dresses, read her novels, and sat in front of the looking-glass with her hair down, dreaming of being quite grown up and in love.
But, while Vara had been gone to the well for the water, momentous things had been happening in the privacy of the chamber shared by Mistress McWalter and her husband.
I would no more be daring than superstitious, but none of our proceedings have prospered, and since their privacy has always been contrary both to my judgment and my principles, I know not how to repine at a failure I cannot think unmerited.
It looks solitary in the midst of the crowd of waters, coming out of its privacy in the wood to take its leap by itself.
A round projection of rock, without trace of anything that I could call a foothold, barred us out from the privacy of the upper ravine.
Queen Yolande placed her suite within the castle precincts, but she herself, putting on an oblate’s habit, occupied for some time a house in the Faubourg des Ponts, where her privacy could be less easily disturbed.
Last of all they reach the sacred privacy of Trixy's own room, and there she displays her ball dress.
A young and lovely lady, wedded little better than a year, holding the very highest position in society, in the sacred privacy of her own household, surrounded by faithful servants, is struck down by the dagger of the assassin.
In the privacy of the president's office Bobby read the briefest note of the many that his forethoughted father had left behind him in Johnson's charge: "You're a blithering idiot!
