Privileged

Examples

• The doors of Skuytercliff were rarely and grudgingly opened to visitors, and a chilly week-end was the most ever offered to the few thus privileged. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Each watch had its own individuality as a separate creation, and only the privileged few were able to carry them. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Our modern idea, that any one in the state is a citizen, would have shocked the privileged democrats of Athens profoundly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Those privileged to enter it shivered there, and spoke of it as handsome. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The reader is privileged to remain, and try what he can make of the discourse. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This is considered as a privileged place, and stands like the land of Goshen amid the plagues of Egypt. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• We are privileged to enter that front door, and to penetrate to the domestic sanctum. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Why should he be so anxious to know the time at which a borrower of money is usually privileged to pay the money back? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• To be privileged to put my arms round what I value--to press my lips to what I love--to repose on what I trust: is that to make a sacrifice? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Edison showed to a few privileged friends a modest looking little machine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Volumnia, as one of the more privileged cousins, in a luxurious chair between them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It is a sort of thing, cried Mrs. Elton emphatically, which _I_ should not have thought myself privileged to inquire into. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Cos a coachman's a privileged indiwidual,' replied Mr. Weller, looking fixedly at his son. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Why can she not influence him more, when she is privileged to draw so near to him? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She calls you our privileged patient. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• These are conditions which, considering everything, I had no hesitation in complying with, as far as I thought myself privileged, for you. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• We invalids think we are privileged people. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It was sacrilege--the intrusion of a man into that spot, at that hourbut he knew himself privileged, and perhaps he trusted to the friendly night. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He had sought this office with eagerness, under the idea of turning his whole forces to the suppression of the privileged orders of our community. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Cedric darted at the forward damsel a glance of hasty resentment; but Rowena, and whatever belonged to her, were privileged and secure from his anger. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• A young lady's tongue is a privileged member, sir, says the Sergeant to Mr. Franklin. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• We took things much more easily in the Commons than they could be taken anywhere else, he observed, and that set us, as a privileged class, apart. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Mrs. Bennet was privileged to whisper it to Mrs. Phillips, and she ventured, without any permission, to do the same by all her neighbours in Meryton. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• A separation into a privileged and a subject-class prevents social endosmosis. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was desirable, therefore, that correspondents should not be privileged spies of the enemy within our lines. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

Typist: Portia