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  • Dodd being kicked out is the best thing to happen to congress since the MASTER ABORTIONIST Kennedy had his cold dead hands pryed from the throats of the millions of dead children.

    Biden: Dodd is 'getting the living hell beat out of him' 2009

  • Or how about an explaination and press conference by clinton explaining in detail what papers she pryed from vince foster's cold dead fingers?

    Obama Camp, Getting Down To Business, Slams Hillary On Tax Returns 2009

  • My generation opened a lot of doors for women, but with this current administration, many doors are inches away from being slammed shut and there are so many more that need to be pryed open.

    Christine Lahti: My Daughter, My Sister 2008

  • I think there's something nicolette din tell me, either that, or she din even bother emptying her slides, cause the only one that can move are the 3rd and tuning slide (which i pryed out after much difficulty)

    yanxious Diary Entry yanxious 2005

  • I peered and pryed about the Devil-dam; from her, hopped over to the Tit-bit; and finally, going on board the Pequod, looked around her for a moment, and then decided that this was the very ship for us.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • I have forgotten to show up and I have pryed and gambled for things i couldnt find on my own.

    i-claudius Diary Entry i-claudius 2001

  • There was that in her life which made her afraid of the world, which would, had it guessed the truth, have pryed with curious eyes into her sorrow, and found an interest in seeing her suffer.

    Ideala Sarah Grand

  • The secrets of his business are not to be too curiously pryed into.

    The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison

  • But hee returning against them with furious force, pryed with his eyes, on whom hee might first assayle with his tuskes: Lepolemus strooke the beast first on the backe with his hunting staffe.

    The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

  • Joe was pryed off the slot machines and a solemn compact entered into that the part of the electioneering tour over the Franklin County line be forever held and guarded as a sealed book.

    Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden

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