A terrible shell fire was directed against our artillery under General Findley, temporarily situated in a valley by the village of Prise.

exclaimed Mrs, Bloomfield, in sur prise.

What doe we Princes differ from the durt And basenesse of the common Multitude If to the scorne of each malicious tongue We subiect are: For that I had no skill, Not he that his farre famed daughter set A prise to Victoria and had bin Crown'd

I would have thee more familiar, good Cornutus; Nero doth prise desert and more esteemes Them that in knowledge second him, then power.

All that which Athens ever brought forth wise, All that which Afrike ever brought forth strange, All that which Asie ever had of prise, Was here to see.

Nay, call me what you will, she is my prise, And I will keepe her.

Soon I had the mortar out of the joints, and the brick loose enough to prise it forward, by putting the edge of the hammer in the crack.

She gla-red up-on the lit-tle-man who she sup-po-sed had giv-en that great knock, with sur-prise and as-to-nish-ment; and then, in a voice like a ve-ry hoarse ra-ven, she cri-ed "How dar-ed you to knock like that at my door, you lit-tle var-let?

" "Zat Very afternoon, to my sur-r-r-prise and gr-r-reat astonishment, I see him again.

More Ladies Terentias, I crie still, That prise a saint before a Silken foole.

I have another that I prise derer then the rest, a most sweete youth, and if the wind stand with him I can smell him half a mile ere hee come at me, indeede hee weares a Musk-catwhat call ye it?about him.

"Monsieur Claudius," said the actor to me, "there is not a single scene here that would suit the Prise de Pékin!"

[Footnote 30: 'Toute énormité dans les esprits d'un certain ordre n'est souvent qu'une grande vue prise hors du temps et du lieu, et ne gardant aucun rapport réel avec les objets environnants.

One who "fights for prizes" would have been better; but we suspect that the word is more nearly akin with the French prise (in the sense of venir aux prises) than with prix.

2. Prise, a thing taken, and prize, to esteem; apprise, to inform, and apprize, to value, or appraise, are often written either way, without this distinction of meaning, which some wish to establish.

Fox, à la prise de la Bastille, s'exclamait: "C'est le plus grand événement qui se soit passé au monde, et c'en est le meilleur."

" A un autre moment le gouvernement méditait une expédition en Birmanie pour la prise de Rangoon, et l'on se demandait à quel général la tâche serait confiée.

"L'on m'a dit (answered he) que c'est pour quelque ville que quelque general de la republique a prise.

Ces douves-là nous font parfois si grise mine Qu'il faut recommencer à l'heure où l'on termine, Et que, la ville prise, on échoue au donjon.

Le preux, en délaçant sa cuirasse, a posé Sur un banc son épée, et Sigismond l'a prise.

Cette lettre que j'ai prise sur lui.

A propos, cette robe brune qui me déplaît, l'as-tu prise?

lheureuse passion que j'ai prise pour elle, et dont je ne guérirai jamais.

[106] AVOIR PRISE ...

PRISE, 'Quarrel,' 'dispute' (Littré, 6°, also Dict. de l'Acad., 1878).