I would n 'be s'prise' ef you'd fin 'her dere now. ". From Wordnik.com. [The House Behind the Cedars] Reference
We'll have to foot it, anyway, for quite some distance, if we want to s'prise 'em. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters The Lost Treasure of Buffalo Hollow] Reference
'prise' control in a situation where few have it in greater proportional share than ever before?. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
And prise their crowns adrift of me and let me die. From Wordnik.com. [Upwards, Into the White Eye Rising] Reference
Mais une fois Rome prise, seigneur, où irons-nous?. From Wordnik.com. [French Conversation and Composition] Reference
Rain influence, and judge the prise, until at length. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
La prise de Boston, la prise de Serapis, bataille de. From Wordnik.com. [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference
Come, force the gates with crowbars, prise them apart!. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
An 'dat whut all dat s'prise-party' lows: dey ain't no ghosts. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
Using the leverage thus obtained, I attempted to prise it open. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Cromwell mena les hommes par la prise qu'ils lui donnaient sur eux. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
The thieves exerted their own third hands, trying to prise it back. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
Hier, sortant d'une crise de tétanie qui m'a prise en pleine nuit. From Wordnik.com. [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference
“Stop, stop!” shouted Dalmatica, struggling to prise those fingers away. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
G pu qu'a l'foutre avec mes CV si j'suis pas prise la j'sais pas c'qui faut!!. From Wordnik.com. [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference
Louisa was trying to prise a small ivory-hilted pistol from its snug-fitting case. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
He assumed it was in one of the files in the general office and managed to prise those open. From Wordnik.com. [A Mind to Murder]
He gave over the effort to prise the teeth apart, and put all his might into a frenzied pull. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
Il n'y a encore aucune mesure prise en Maryland pour l'affranchissement progressif des esclaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916] Reference
ÂGE, temps écoulé depuis la chute de l'empire romain (395) jusqu'à la prise de Constantinople. From Wordnik.com. [French Conversation and Composition] Reference
And why would he strain at the bit to help a kid who has managed to prise identical imperium out of the Senate?. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
The other end of the chain buried itself deeply in the rock-hard earth and no amount of pulling would prise it free. From Wordnik.com. [Frost at Christmas]
I was saved from this small but final humiliation when the ties slid loose, allowing me to prise the boots from my feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Moor]
She thought I was an undeclared journalist, using an unknowing acquaintance to get in and prise at The Real Margery Childe. From Wordnik.com. [A Monstrous Regiment of Women]
If he was clever enough, thought Phagites, he might be able to prise that money out of the old woman by pitching her a tale. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
When I attempted to prise open the doors on the off-chance of a bookplate or inscription I found them locked against me, top and bottom. From Wordnik.com. [the mission song]
"Hush!" whispered the elder man, fiercely, "this passage window 'll do: it won't take much to prise it open: you'll look after the women.". From Wordnik.com. [Nearly Lost but Dearly Won] Reference
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