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  • Then said she, β€œAn thou wilt have it so, O our lord, it will be privier and better in my place than in thine, for here are slave-girls and eunuchs and goers-in and comers-out, and indeed I am a woman who wotteth naught of this fashion; but need compelleth.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Quoth she, An thou wilt have it so, be it in my house, for there it will be privier both for me and for thee.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Then said she, "An thou wilt have it so, O our lord, it will be privier and better in my place than in thine, for here are slave-girls and eunuchs and goers-in and comers-out, and indeed I am a woman who wotteth naught of this fashion; but need compelleth."

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • The jangling of Ronnie's keys as he powers through the mall's privier and more depressing halls, as we vicariously experience the dismal lows and literal, orgasmic

    /Film 2009

  • And to observe her Majesty's commands for the ten thousand pounds, we agreed he should take it out of the portion that was landed secretly, and to remove the same out of the place before my son Henry and I should come to the weighing and registering of what was left; and so it was done, and no creature living by me made privy to it but himself; and myself no privier to it than as you may perceive by this.

    English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 James Anthony Froude 1856

  • Quoth she, "An thou wilt have it so, be it in my house, for there it will be privier both for me and for thee.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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