Pry's

“You can't expect to do anything great with Macbeth, if you first come on flourishing Paul Pry's umbrella.”

Mark Twain Henderson, Archibald 1910

Sharpsburg from the ridge near Pry's house was an example of this.

Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 April 1861-November 1863 Jacob Dolson Cox 1864

From Pry's house, where McClellan's headquarters were that day, to Burnside's, was over two miles as the crow flies.

Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 April 1861-November 1863 Jacob Dolson Cox 1864

What then? take old Pry's advice, and never mind it.

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays Charles Lamb 1804

Lamb analysed the prying nature again in _The New Times_ early in 1825, in two papers on "Tom Pry" and "Tom Pry's Wife" which will be found in Vol.I. of this edition.

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays Charles Lamb 1804

But being come into Spreyton parish, or rather a little before, he seemed to carry an old gentlewoman behind him, that often threw him off his horse, and hurried him with such violence, as astonished all that saw him, or heard how horridly the ground was beaten; and being come into his master's yard, Pry's horse (a mean beast) sprung at once twenty-five feet.

Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects John Aubrey 1661

… On the morning of September 18th, I was sent by the Medical Director of the Army of the Potomac [Dr. Letterman] to attend General Hooker, then lying in a farmhouse [probably Pry's]

behind AotW Brian 2010

I'm sure that Pry's familiar with it, but for others,

Wired Campus 2010

I'm sure that Pry's familiar with it, but for others,

Wired Campus 2010

… On the morning of September 18th, I was sent by the Medical Director of the Army of the Potomac [Dr. Letterman] to attend General Hooker, then lying in a farmhouse [probably Pry's]

behind AotW Brian 2010