In due time, however, he gained his sea legs and, being forever curious, even prying, he explored the ship.

Even she herself could not expend any considerable portion of Mr. Osgood's advance without arousing surmise and provoking dangerous prying.

What a mockery of right enjoyment our endless prying and sifting, our hunting of riddles in metaphors, innuendoes in tropes, ciphers in Shakspeare!

Decorated with an old full-dress Lieutenant's coat, white trousers, and a cap with a tall feather, he looked upon himself as a most exalted personage, and for the whole of the first day remained on board, impatiently, but in vain prying into each boat that left the shore for the dusky forms of some of his quondam friends.