prvately

Updated: May 25, 2025

His lips then moved for a little, and he was observed to mark his breast prvately with the sign of the cross; but in such a manner as to prove that the act was dictated by the unsettled incoherency of terror, and not by the promptings of piety or religion.

William Carleton - Fardorougha, The Miser: The Works of William Carleton, Volume One