Prying

Examples

• That prying scoundrel, Hartright, may come back without my knowing it, and may make use of her to-morrow---- Not he, Percival! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• If we are to be prying and spying into all the dismals of life, we should have no heart to anything. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Prying, and peeping, and listening are the natural occupations of people situated as we are. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• An unutterable suspicion that his mind is prying into mine overcomes me at these times, and it overcame me now. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I am sick of all this poking and prying. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I caught it, and prying its bill open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger could reach. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• You have been prying into my private affairs. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The man pushes down with a force of 100 pounds, but with that amount succeeds in prying up the 600-pound bowlder. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Had he been as acute as he was meddling, as profound as he was prying, he might have found that in Sir Philip's face whereby to correct his inference. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Are we to suppose from this curiosity and prying into dictionaries, could our heroine suppose that Mr. Crawley was interested in her? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He put some eggs in a frying pan, and stood pensively prying slabs of meat from between his teeth with a fork. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But thou hast a hundred zecchins with thee in that bag, said Isaac, prying under Gurth's cloak, it is a heavy one. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• After luncheon, when Grace Stepney's prying eyes had been removed, Lily asked for a word with her aunt. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

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