Being the only bachelor present, I claim the privilege of free speech.

Till then I claim the privilege of giving you a few orders.

In the latter case I shall claim the privilege of choosing the pattern.'

I claim the privilege of old fellowship: give me thy hand.

Since your merriment interrupts my work, I claim the privilege of sharing it.

As her foster mother, I claim the privilege of sending her to Europe.

As a friend I claim the privilege of being disagreeable.

You see I claim the privilege of an old friend.

I claim the privilege of changing the subject, too.

I am no flatterer, and claim the privilege of a friend to speak my mind.

For our Poet we now claim the privilege, at once bright and austere, of death.

We claim the privilege, too, as belonging properly to the party that is now absent.

I claim the privilege of a guest and a word or two with our fair hostess.

They are too remote to share the general government, and, therefore, claim the privilege of governing themselves.

I claim the privilege of being seen before I am condemned, and heard before I am executed.

Mr. Ware has been permitted to taboo camp-meetings, and I claim the privilege to cry off on Greeks.