`Do you have a boyfriend,' she asked her prospective tenant pryingly. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
She said pryingly, “Is that why Master Iah was at your house?”. From Wordnik.com. [The Pilgrimage] Reference
Sometimes I could see him sitting on an impending bough, with his tail over his back, looking down pryingly upon me. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
As soon therefore as we had spread open the mantle, the woman that stood muffled by the country-man, having pryingly taken notice of some tokens about it, forceably laid both hands on't, and setting up her throat, cryed out, "Thieves, thieves!". From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter] Reference
“Are these yours, really and really?” she asked, looking pryingly. From Wordnik.com. [Fun-jottings, or, Laughs I have taken a pen to] Reference
Instead, he began to prowl about my room, pryingly, nosingly, touching things here and there. From Wordnik.com. [Widdershins] Reference
He looked down pryingly into her arms, and at the first glance thought that it was his umbrella. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Clerks] Reference
Sometimes I could see him sitting on an impending bough, with his tail over his hack, looking down pryingly upon me. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.] Reference
"What a strange character he is," rejoined Thornton; "I also have known him for some years," and again Thornton looked pryingly into my countenance. From Wordnik.com. [Pelham — Complete] Reference
Graham, while he thus said, naturally looked Lebeau in the face, -- not pryingly, not significantly, but as a man generally does look in the face the other man whom he accosts seriously. From Wordnik.com. [The Parisians — Complete] Reference
As she thus sat and looked, she shudderingly saw the man, tired perhaps of repeating a summons so ineffectual, come to the window and look pryingly within: their eyes met; Madeline had not the power to shriek. From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Aram — Complete] Reference
One evening, after the sun went down, rays of blue and rose came from it in a half-wheel shape, so ineffably delicate that if we looked too pryingly they were not there, but if we glanced unawares there they were. From Wordnik.com. [Memories of Hawthorne] Reference
Small, spare, and prematurely bent, the Eretrian supported himself by a staff, upon which now leaning, he glanced, quickly and pryingly, around, till his eyes rested upon the Athenians, with the young Chian standing in their rear. From Wordnik.com. [Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance] Reference
Wolfe paused for a few moments, looked curiously and pryingly round, and then rising went forth into the passage to see that no loiterer or listener was near; returned, and drawing his chair close to Glendower, fixed his dark eye upon him, and said. From Wordnik.com. [The Disowned — Complete] Reference
While the old man was thus bending over the fire and conning his evening contemplations, a figure stole from the copse I have mentioned, and, approaching the window, looked pryingly into the apartment; then with a noiseless hand it opened the spring of the casement, which was framed on. From Wordnik.com. [The Disowned — Complete] Reference
She raises her double gold eyeglasses, and, contracting her forehead, stares pryingly about her; and so fashionable is she, and her modernity is so picturesque, that for a moment you think of the entrance of a duchess in the first act of a piece by Augier played on the stage of the Français. From Wordnik.com. [A Mere Accident] Reference
Look pryingly or curiously. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Lake] Reference
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