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- verb Present participle of
prison .
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Examples
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The Ancient Mariner's face grew suddenly bleak and fierce, and his right hand flashed out to Daughtry's wrist, prisoning it in withered fingers of steel.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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“But wait,” she resisted him, prisoning his eager hand in hers.
CHAPTER XXVII 2010
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The door swung shut behind them, prisoning them in the half-lit gloom.
Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010
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I read the meaning: life fettering the enemy of life; rendering it impotent; prisoning it with the secret, ancient and holy symbol of that very thing it was bent upon destroying.
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"Who are you, girl?" he demanded, prisoning a small hand in his own hardened fingers.
The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003
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"Who are you, girl?" he demanded, prisoning a small hand in his own hardened fingers.
The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003
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Hydona uttered a wail that was choked off by the brutal grip of the beast prisoning her.
Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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Hydona uttered a wail that was choked off by the brutal grip of the beast prisoning her.
Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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'Who are you, girl?' he demanded, prisoning a small hand in his own hardened fingers.
The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989
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The lesser one who lay in the shade of the prisoning tree does so no longer.
Shadow Games Cook, Glen 1989
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