Now let him come prying and spying about, she will have a husband to defend her.

Wilford, a young man who acts as his secretary, was one day caught prying into this chest, and Sir Edward's first impulse was to kill him; but on second thought he swore the young man to secrecy, and told him the story of the murder.

Or into matter's hidden causes pry? To describe every city, stream, or hill I' th'world, our fancy with vain arts to fill?

But here our discoveries ended; there was nothing to account for all the labor and privacy that had been going on for the last two or three weeks,and quite in despair, we returned to the house before the boys discovered our prying.

No doubt he would not encourage any prying into it, and neither cared to remember it himself nor wished others to do so.

The lack of curb gave him no pry on the jaw of the chestnut and sheer strength against strength he was a child on a giant.

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

"Take a seat, Mr. Steward," says I, when Simon entered, cap in hand, and casting a very prying, curious look around.

There are the long fingers of the cable and telegraph that pry through earth's hidden places, gathering choice bits of international gossip and handing them out to all the breakfast tables of the Great Neighborhood.