Sentence examples for privies from inspiring English sources

"The privies have to be left outside," Beckie shouted.

Michael Olmert is the author of the new book "Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies: Outbuildings and the Architecture of Daily Life in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic" which caught my eye in the Cornell University Press catalog because of its unusual title, and because of the strange-looking hut on the cover (it's an eighteenth-century dovecote).

Mr. Rutsch is hoping to find buried under the debris of the last two centuries, the privies and wells of the early residents, which would have been dug deep.

It's the same with privies.

Let's talk about privies.

One of these was restored — the saloon — including a room where, in the 1870s, German patrons might have gathered for meetings of immigrant fraternal associations, a small kitchen where Caroline prepared the saloon's food, and the couple's bedroom with windows looking out on the privies serving the 83 residents of the five-story tenement.

Identified at ground level by a circle of stones, privies — also known as outhouses — were in common use in Manhattan until the mid-19th century, according to Wall, when households transitioned to indoor plumbing.

The last clear reference to the playhouse dates to 1627, when residents of the area complained to the local authorities that filth from "common privies" was surrounding it.

But the Chilcot group of privy counsellors, which included Lord Howard, Alan Beith, and Shaun Woodward, concluded that the use of phone-tap evidence couldn't be reconciled with the operational requirements of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ "notably that the intercepting agencies should be able to determine how intercept material is transcribed and selected for retention".

In 1960 he became Labour's defence spokesman and during the Wilson premiership he was at Defence and the Board of Trade and became a privy counsellor.

"I'm not privy to the wishes of the trustees," he said.