pries

• He didn't have any picks or pries, like the blacksmith, and all I'm sure of is that I think he was singing to the horse. —  FSF,October2005
• We rigged pries, and, first singing out, "stand from under," hove one half of the roof into the street, and the other into the garden. —  Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast
• He felt like one who meddles with something forbidden -- who pries, shamefaced, into the secrets of an odious vice. —  The Whirlpool
• The words came from Eleanor's lips before she thought; or she could never have asked the question Calamity, who was it took your little baby away The suit case fell from the Indian woman's hand D' pries'," she said, "Father Moran Eleanor thought a moment, racking her memory in vain for that name in her convent life of Quebec. —  The Freebooters of the Wilderness
• M' babee, dey take it away, d' pries' he sing--sing an' wave candle an' bury it in snow. —  The Freebooters of the Wilderness

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