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"No," said the King, "but you can stay with me as privy councilor."

From Time Magazine Archive

As a member of the Supreme Soviet, he has impressed no one with his debating, but his record as a privy councilor is brilliant.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Chamberlain, Sir Kunz, who in his capacity of privy councilor, attended to the private correspondence of his master and had the right to use his name and seal, was the first to speak.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

But what privy councilor in the whole world could have advised Walter to let that porcelain spoon tilt over the edge of the saucer and fall into Sietske’s lap!

From Walter Pieterse A Story of Holland by Multatuli

De La Warr was a man of note and worth, old privy councilor of Elizabeth and of James, soldier in the Low Countries, strong Protestant and believer in England-in-America.

From Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings by Johnston, Mary