I selected you, Monsieur Gerard, because I wanted a man who could handle a sword, and who would not pry more deeply into the affair than I desired.

As to the ineffable Trinity subsisting in this Unity, a mystery discovered only by the Sacred Scriptures, especially in the New Testament, where it is more clearly revealed than in the Old, let others boldly pry into it, if they please, while we receive it with our humble faith, and think it sufficient for us to admire and adore.

Her husband was continually prying about to detect her secret hoards, and many and fierce were the conflicts that took place about what ought to have been common property.

We feel like thieves, like desecrators, impiously prying.

Whilst I was waiting for Babet, I pried indiscreetly into a tuft which was really a whole world.

She stood still in a halo of authority, while over the rim of her spectacles her eyes pried nervously about the room.

What they did upon descending to the sidewalk comes under the head of direct action, and as such was the concern of the authorities which pried them asunder and led them away.

In the end, the panel had to be just prosaically pried out.