"Say, those are some tools, Billie," said Chet jubilantly, as he pried away at the lock.

They upset everything and pried everywhere.

When Jimville was having the time of its life the Silver Dollar had those same coins let into the bar top for a border, but the proprietor pried them out when the glory departed.

The lad took out his pocket knife, opened its big blade, and in a few minutes had pried off the strip lining the sash.

So then Russell rode over, six miles, to a neighbor's, and got two men, and betwixt 'em all they pried up the beams of the barn, that had blowed on to the roof and pinned it down over me, and then lifted up the boards and got me out; and I wa'n't hurt, except a few bruises: but after that day I begun to get gray hairs.

She tried one of the windows without encouragement, but at the other found a board with a loose end, which she pried aside, till through begrimed glass she could see a ghastly, weeping sky of daybreak and, by craning her neck, peer down into the dark gully of the street.

Pride (of such simple things as stone steps) had died out of the Hamilton stock in the course of years, and the house had been so long vacant that no one but Lemuel, the Consul, remembered any of its charming features; but Ossian Popham, when he pried up and straightened the ancient landmarks, had much to say of the wonderful steps.

"There's so much goin' on now-a-days," he complained, as he puffed and pried and strained, and rested in between, "that young ones won't amount to nothin', fust thing you know.

Boswell was "horribly shocked," but he still stuck to his victim like a leech, and pried into the minutest details of his life and manners.

The man who has had a slight or moderate blow comes to himself when the immediate shock passes off and the organs begin to work again, or when a bit of the skull is pried up, if that happens to be broken.

Mrs. Clayton's conviction that "something had happened" became distressing, and in the end Hewitt pried open the door with a small poker.

A jimmy had been pushed between the frame and the door near the bolt, and the door had been pried open, the bolt being torn away from the screws in the operation.

He rummaged old cuddies, closets, vaults, and cocklofts, and pried into every recess of the Chancery, the Land Office, the Committee-Rooms, and the Council-Chamber, searching up-stairs and down-stairs, wherever a truant paper was supposed to lurk.

He moved the log by means of an iron bar with a sharp point, which he struck into the end of the log, and thus pried it over, one end at a time.

The lawyer Mr. Medler had pried into everything, the shopman told Percival Nowell; had declared himself empowered to do this, as the legal adviser of the deceased; and had seemed as suspicious as if he, Luke Tulliver, meant to rob his dead master.

He went and pried open the door into the entry.

Then the men harnessed themselves two by two on the drag-rope, while one of their number pried behind with a lever, and the canoe, bumping and sliding, was twitched through the woods.

He inserted his pick under the lid, and pried it off and laid it on one side.

" Stephen knocked up the end of the board with the mallet, and then he got the wedge under and pried.

The blaze was quenched in a moment, the canvas door pried open and the three men passed beyond, carefully closing the door behind them.

" It was hours, however, before the lumbering equipages were pried out and started on.

All at once Dr. Lombardo inserted the blade of the pick under the golden spout, pried hard, bent it upward.

After that, I remember that somebody came up behind me and pried my hands loose from the mast.

He was rather a tight fit, which interested Jimmie more than young Bashforth, so he left the boy and came around and pried the doctor back into the companion-way.

When I went into the church for my early service I found that some one had ripped off the wainscoting in a half a dozen places and even pried up the altar.