No one dormitory is entitled to plume itself, in the pride of its heart, on being peculiarly Ours; nor is any one suffered to sink into despondency from being debarred the privilege of contributing to Our repose.
At that hour, even the poet would grant them the privilege of the arbour where he sits when inspired, and writing for immortality.
Next moment I may drop from thought, from sense, The privilege of angels and of worms, An outcast from existence!
But the privilege of falling in love is not given to everybody, and the inestimable privilege of falling deeply in love is given to few.
He also had the privilege of celebrating the first Holy Communion in America.
He gave me the privilege of using his berth and his blankets during my watch below; he loaned me a monkey jacket in stormy weather, and shared with me his "small stores," of which he had a good supply.
As I eyed him with admiration and envy I wondered if the time would ever arrive when, clad with authority, I should exercise the privilege of wielding the harpoon and striking a porpoise!
An officer stepped on deck, and politely asked the privilege of examining the ship's papers.
All men were originally equal; and in no country therefore, could any privilege of birth give one family a right to monopolise the executive power for ever: neither can one generation bind that which is as yet to come.
What privilegehas this to continue particularly in my house?
Privilege had been so shorn that those who desired to make that the foundation were necessarily not conservatives, but reactionists.
I had the privilege of being present at one lecture on the training of children, and among all the good things which I heard on the occasion I will quote the following, which may be of great use, even to my English readers.
About 1231 a breach took place between Frederick and his elder son Henry, who appears to have opposed the Privilege of Worms and to have favoured the towns against the princes.
In like manner, the privilege of working as a mason was not conferred before candidates had been "made free.
Dalny, adjoining Port Arthur, was a free port during the Russian occupation; and Japan after the war decided to renew this privilege as soon as practicable.
Ah, I lived right with her for three months, and it was a great privilege for me.
The latter has brought his guitar, and he assumes the privilege of singing a serenade to Marguerite, while Faust stands to one side in melancholy meditation.
If the standard bearer sees any child's feet move after he cries "halt," he has the privilege of tagging that child, who is then an ally of the standard bearer and helps tag the other children he sees moving.
Each victim has the privilege of remaining near enough to see the next one caught.
Tithes, pluralities, and every sort of ecclesiastical privilege were sacrificed.
Figaro is Beaumarchais, is the lower or middle class man, with nothing but his wits with which to force his way through the barriers which privilege has erected across every path along which he attempts to advance.
It was the emphatic and right declaration that privilege and class distinction was the root of all the evils of the old system and had been {80} condemned by the French nation.
As the valet of Count Almaviva he has seen the man of privilege at close quarters and has sounded his rottenness and incapacity.
It was the privilege of James to witness, in his dying hours, his firm and unshaken confidence in the Redeemer.
After exercising as a prayer-leader as well as a teacher for some time, he became impressed with the conviction that it was his duty and privilege to preach the gospel.
Why should not Wagner be allowed the privilege of the sun?
Deputies had an immunity from arrest while the house was sitting, a privilege similarly enjoyed by English members of Parliament.
Such a sunrise has seldom been the privilege of man to see, and once seen can never be forgotten.
This was followed, in 1733, by another at Bain in Lorraine, which obtained its privilege from Duke Francis III.
I do not mean in this article to give a complete catalogue of all the books printed under a privilege in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, for such a list would be attended with very little utility.
A privilege from the duke of Saxony to the edition of the New Testament by Emser.
In 1677, the inventor obtained an exclusive privilege to make these engines during the period of twenty-five years.
This privilegewas first noticed by Panzer, in his History of the Nuremberg editions of the Bible, and afterwards by Mr. Am Ende, in Meusel’s Collection for enlarging Historical Knowledge.
The oldest Papal privilege hitherto known is of the year 1505, to Hervei Britonis in IV Petri Lombardi Sententiarum volumina, scripta subtilissima.
Hœnnen, that indigo should be entirely banished from the empire, and that an exclusive privilege should be granted to those who dyed with woad.
The oldest Venetian privilege at present known, is of the year 1491, found by M.
There is a Venetian privilege also of the year 1492, to Senecæ Tragediæ cum commento.
It was felt by these honest-hearted people, more a privilege than a duty, thus to share their temporal blessings with the men of God who ministered to them in holy things.
Then I can see no reason why you should be denied the social privilege of a glass with your friends," urged one of the company.
Five years of life it was worth paying down for the privilege of an outside place on a mail-coach, when carrying down the first tidings of any such event.
But the one critical test in determining whether or not our immigration should be limited for political reasons is the character of the people whom we are admitting to the privilege of citizenship in the United States.
The same man has a right of passage over land used as a highway, but his town or county can take that privilege away from him without his consent and without compensation.
A high-sounding official title, carrying with it a merely nominal duty and some privilege that might be turned into coin, was the elegant way of overcoming financial difficulty.
Being desperately in need of trained officers, Congress had given some of them commissions, though their demands for rank and privilege were beyond all reason.
Maubourg asked permission, in case the illness proved fatal, to be with him at the last, but was told that no such privilege could be granted.
Lameth had been set at liberty; his two other friends, Latour Maubourg and Bureaux de Pusy, were in full sympathy with the plan, and to make it easier had refrained from asking the privilege of driving out themselves.
Popularity has been defined as the privilege of being cheered by the kind of people you would never allow to bow to you.
Fame may be said to be the privilege of being slandered at once by the people who do bow to you, as well as by the people who do not.
Liberty of thought should be the privilege of every human creature, but we must never mistake it for Liberty of action.
He had been one of the guests at a small and early dinner-party given by the Comtesse that evening,--and with the privilege of an old acquaintance, he had lingered thus long after all the others had gone to their respective homes.
For the Premier has received education, culture, training, and the choice of the people, and to him is given the privilege of voicing the beggar's thought.
Comtesse Hermenstein looked him full in the eyes, "Why I think it an honour to know her--a privilege to touch her hand!
There is no body of officials, from the highest to the lowest, among whom the exercise of this ancient privilege would not conduce to the highest ends of justice and the furtherance of human welfare.
To feel otherwise has merely been the unhappy privilege of men intoxicated by the stifling and unwholesome air of modern artificiality.
Privilege has been curtailed, liberty has widened its borders.
Judge Hughes thanked the County Council for the privilege of opening the new Court House.
We can watch our very rulers, and have the means in our hands of curbing usurpation of power or infringements of rights by the privilege we can exercise of approving or disapproving of the advisers of the crown.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "privilege" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
