| 1. | Here, she must be leading a life of privation and penance there it would have been all enjoyment. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 2. | No one knows all that certain feeble creatures, who have grown old in privation and honesty, can get out of a sou. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | retired shortly after his arrival, doubtless to plunge into all the joys of venery after his long absence, and his wife's supposed privation of them. - from The Romance of Lust by Anonymous |
| 4. | As generally happens, Pierre did not feel the full effects of the physical privation and strain he had suffered as prisoner until after they were over. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 5. | Oh, my child, my pretty little mistress, if you only knew how much I suffer from the excessive heat, and the privation in which I live Without exaggeration, my testicles are enormous. - from The Romance of Lust by Anonymous |
| 6. | I would not now have exchanged Lowood with all its privations for Gateshead and its daily luxuries. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 7. | I mean to say, ever since then I've been able to appreciate the frightful privations the poor have to stick. - from My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse |
| 8. | THIS is not the place to commemorate the trials and privations endured by the immigrant Mormons before they came to their final haven. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 9. | "She is a riddle, quite a riddle" said she.--"To chuse to remain here month after month, under privations of every sort And now to chuse the mortification of Mrs. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 10. | For not only would they meet with all the sympathies of sailors, but likewise with all the peculiar congenialities arising from a common pursuit and mutually shared privations and perils. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 11. | Used only to a large house himself, and without ever thinking how many advantages and accommodations were attached to its size, he could be no judge of the privations inevitably belonging to a small one. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 12. | The picture which she had then drawn of the privations of the approaching winter, had proved erroneous no friends had deserted them, no pleasures had been lost.--But her present forebodings she feared would experience no similar contradiction. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 13. | All enjoyments for some, all privations for the rest, that is to say, for the people privilege, exception, monopoly, feudalism, born from toil itself. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 14. | He had borne with the public prison, and with privations of all sorts still, by degrees nature, or rather custom, had prevailed, and he suffered from being naked, dirty, and hungry. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |