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confidentially or in secret

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The dandy's toe strayed privily to feel out the butts of the Sniders under the green leaves, and Ishikola was loth to depart.
Placed in these circumstances then, with no prospect of matters mending if I remained aboard the Dolly, I at once made up my mind to leave her: to be sure it was rather an inglorious thing to steal away privily from those at whose hands I had received wrongs and outrages that I could not resent; but how was such a course to be avoided when it was the only alternative left me?
Daughtry did not savvee, and shook his head, while Ah Moy's slant eyes betrayed none of the anxiety and fear with which he privily gazed on Kwaque's two permanently bent fingers of the left hand and on Kwaque's forehead, between the eyes, where the skin appeared a shade darker, a trifle thicker, and was marked by the first beginning of three short vertical lines or creases that were already giving him the lion-like appearance, the leonine face so named by the experts and technicians of the fell disease.
Then he privily took a dose of active poison, imagining that it would not fail to kill either himself or the devil that possessed him, or both together.
The Alta-Pacific had suggested that his resignation be kept a private matter, and then had privily informed the newspapers.
He was keenly sensitive, hopelessly self-conscious, and the amused glance that the other stole privily at him over the top of the letter burned into him like a dagger- thrust.
Privily, I had made up to him an additional hundred and fifty sticks, and he had come to regard me with a respect that was almost veneration, which was curious, seeing that he was an old man, twice my age at least.
(10) And clients unquestionably have a right to converse privily with their counsel and spouses--separately.
At the core of States' concerns in allowing subdivisions to be respondents was the privily of contract doctrine.
the green knight commanded thirty knights privily to watch Beaumains, for to keep him from all treason."