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  • noun Plural form of prier.

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Examples

  • Uploaded on April 28, 2009 pleasure island still is damage if you didnt have a boat your out of luck all the priers are gone ghostboats are just seating on side of the road its bad to say the least

    fishing spots gone bad 2009

  • Once they've got it, their selling might drive priers down, especially on the stocks that gained the most this year.

    Some Guesses For 1996 2008

  • It was put in the newses what he did, nicies and priers, the King fierceas Humphrey, with illysus dis-tilling, exploits and all.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • There are everywhere firebrands, mischief-makers, or, at least, malicious priers, who take a mad delight in seeing the nobility and the religious orders at variance; they observe it immediately, report it, and enlarge upon it …

    Chapter XIX 1909

  • The mere fact that your presence is known will warn off priers.

    The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley Louis Tracy 1895

  • "In answering this question, he cannot forbear one of those touches of rhetoric for which he was so celebrated:" I will not answer this question by saying that he was preparing hell for priers into his mysteries.

    History of the Conflict between Religion and Science 1881

  • PAPISTS observe (such are curious priers into Protestants 'carriage) that charity in England lay in a swoon from the dissolution of abbeys, in the reign of King Henry the Eighth, till about the tenth of Queen

    Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863

  • Clarks fork through priers gape to to the yellow Stone River Returned to wind river in

    Robert Newell's Travels in the Teritory of Missourie 1829

  • Against robbers and priers and -- "She caught Will's eye.

    Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999

  • In answering this question, he cannot forbear one of those touches of rhetoric for which he was so celebrated: "I will not answer this question by saying that he was preparing hell for priers into his mysteries.

    History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science John William Draper 1846

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