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Prie

Prie \Prie\, v. i. To pry. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.

Prie

Prie \Prie\, n. (Bot.) The plant privet. [Obs.]
--Tusser.

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prie

n. The plant privet.

Usage examples of "prie".

Quant au binocle, que tu appelles, je crois, Rouxpainsel ou Ratpainsel, ou je ne sais comment, quel homme est-ce, je te prie?

I gave her twelve, and went home, where I slept till morn, without thinking of breakfasting with the Marquis de Prie, but I think I should have given him some notice of my inability to come.

She scowled at me at table, and when the meal was over the Marquis de Prie told me that they had some new cards, and that everybody was longing to see me make a bank.

Roman The idea of the sorry plight in which I had left the Marquis de Prie, his mistress, and perhaps all the company, who had undoubtedly coveted the contents of my cash-box, amused me till I reached Chamberi, where I only stopped to change horses.

Marchioness de Prie, who made a vigorous attack on me after we had danced together.

Parcalier, Marquis de Prie since the death of his father, whom you may have known as ambassador at Venice.

Once into Aqua Prieta, he tied his horse in front of a cantina and got a beer and began in his poor Spanish, asking about the ranchero of el pistolero gringo.

They would meet in a little while in public, conduct their public business, then drift casually away to a small cabin the man leased and used in the borderland south of Agua Prieta, Mexico, primarily for hunting quail.

Douglas, a border town across from Agua Prieta, and they would reach the cabin the next morning.

They would have dinner in a fine restaurant he knew in Agua Prieta, then make the small cabin near Colonia Marelas by nightfall.

He would return to Albuquerque on a big loop, around the Mesa Prieta, skirting Jemez Pueblo, and down the western side of the Rio Grande to home.

I gave her twelve, and went home, where I slept till morn, without thinking of breakfasting with the Marquis de Prie, but I think I should have given him some notice of my inability to come.

Just after supper the Marquis de Prie made a bank of about three hundred sequins.

When dinner was over the Marquis the Prie made a bank, but as he only put down a hundred louis I guessed that he wanted to win a lot and lose a little.

The inn-keeper came and told me that there were no horses, and that it would take all the morning to find some, as the Marquis de Prie, who was leaving at one o'clock in the morning, had emptied his stables.