For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
Neither she accused herself, but laid the sin on the serpent, andprivily she laid the fault on the maker of him.
Meanwhile, he and Dorothy privily appointed their nuptials for the first of June, taking Bess into the secret.
This was fiction; she wanted Bess to see Richard, of whom she was privily proud.
Being satisfied of Richard's seriousness, and concluding privily that he was only a dullard whom the honor of her notice had confused, she said: "Umph!
Richard offered no objection, although he privily condemned cigarettes as implying the effeminate.
And when Abeniaf saw that the people were thus at a stand, he took counsel privily with the Cid, and with the knights, and the good men who were on his side, how he might take them.
And hadst thou departed privily thou couldest not have escaped being slain or taken.
And Abeniaf was in great trouble at this which was said openly concerning him, and he sent privily to the Cid, telling him to come as soon as might be.
There were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies,” 2 Pet.
Peter declares that “there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
And Adelina, who from the upper landing was privily assisting auricularly at this scene, was for once, inclined to agree with the submissive one.
He had as yet not gauged the extent of his niece's knowledge of natural history, and would have given much to have had a real live bat in his possession at that moment, that he might privily have set it loose when they gained the room.
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.
It is one of the most unnatural actions; for here a man seeks his own ruin, and privily lurks for his own life.
So a little before thou didst leave the camp, we, the Queen and I, went privilyinto a place of the woods but a little way hence.
You are a liar,' says I, and forthwith I breaks his head with the stick which I holds behind me, and which my coko has conveyed privily into my hand.
Perhaps it was not entirely the devil's fault, for Captain Dettmar, privily cherishing a quart of whisky for many weeks, had selected Christmas Eve for broaching it.
So well did he make it a point to see Lilian in the afternoons, that the time came when she accepted him for better or worse, and when he prayed privily and fervently that it was not for worse.
I will see that all her household are forth from the castle, so may you come privily to her chamber, and have your desire of her, whether she cry yea or whether she cry nay.
Thereat King Florus marvelled much, and said privily to the knight that very gladly would he become the husband of such a wife.
By this path he rode privily on his palfrey, without gossip or noise, to visit the maiden, many a time.
So when her letter was finished she hastened to the garden, she and her playmate together, and finding Constant yet asleep, placed privily the letter beneath his girdle.
Sir, tell me his name," answered Robert, "and I will find means to speak to him so privily that the marriage shall be made.
Whilst they went to seek dry cones and brushwood for the fire, Travers crept privily to the oak beneath which it was burning.
As he stood one night privily at the door of their chamber, he saw them spread out the gold before them and play with it and heard one of them say, 'Out on us!
Moreover, he told him that he was going about in quest of him and informed him that he was come privily from the king his mother's husband and that his mother would be content [to know] that he was alive and well, though she saw him not.
Then Herod privily called the wise men, and diligently enquired of them, the time of the star that appeared.
And in my master's hands I laid my newly gotten gear, and heard privily from him that, with his goodwill, I and his daughter might wed so soon as she would.
But when Lugh heard that they were on their way he put on his cloak of invisibility and withdrew privily to Tara.
And his mind misgave him that some treachery had been wrought; and he sent messengers privily northwards to the Hill of the White Field.
He thus repented and regretted the thing he had done and attempted privily to gather in his printed confessions, plotted darkly with the Center of Sedition against me and informed him daily of all the happenings within my household.
In the day-time they afflicted me with the arrows of hate and in the night-season they privily conspired to hurt me.
It is evident and indisputable that they are privily and with the utmost subtlety engaged in conspiring against me.
I had planned to steal away privily by Wells on the sea, and there take ship for Denmark,' De Guader said.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "privily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: apart; aside; privately; secretly
