Lever (off)

Usage examples of prise.

Rather than pursue the point, he prised one of the newspapers loose, stared for the fifth or sixth time at the article reporting a complete absence of progress in the police investigation of the disappearance of Heather Mallender, then slammed it back onto the table with a grunt of disgust.

Darcy watched a forlorn family prise open a badly contorted marsupium shell with deep scorch marks on the oyster-coloured casing.

Tom Connors store to get some carosene and old Francis was going down town with Perry Molton and they was talking about who was the best fellers in school and who they was going to give the prises.

I prised at the seal with the blade of my penknife as gently as an apothecary slicing the seed pod of a rare plant.

He prised a skep from its stool and held it out, inverted, showing the dirty wreck of combs, with the vile grubs spinning their cocoons.

Napoleon and Vulge prised Bingo up and away from the shoulders of Stonks and stood him on the ground.

Elles ont ete prises pour des images de Marie, et, tenues pour miraculeuses, ont attire des pelerins dans le sanctuaire ou on les avait deposees au sortir de terre.

Daikoff was not out of eye-shot, however, and both Watches Bowen and Ool would have been vastly sur prised had they known that the big man whose dark eyes watched them so intently, was making those eyes serve as ears.

Eventually she will allow one of her flatmates to prise the story from her.

That was when we lived at Peacehaven and I had been on an easy pitch on those same cliffs the week before, prising fossils out of the chalk.

The two Africans came to help, pulling the trunk clear and prising the jaw open with their axe handles.

If Bicky's people hadn't left him anything and he depended on what he could prise out of the old duke, he was in a pretty bad way.

He then adds that these muscles, from their attachment and position, are fitted "à resserrer, à concentrer les principaux traits de la face, comme il convient dans toutes ces passions vraiment oppressives ou profondes, dans ces affections dont le sentiment semble porter l'organisation à revenir sur elle-même, à se contracter et à s'amoindrir, comme pour offrir moins de prise et de surface à des impressions redoutables ou importunes.

There were nine men there altogether, some prising out lumps of limestone with pickaxes and crowbars to add to the heap of rubble at their feet, others loading the rubble on to rubber-tyred wheel-barrows while a gigantic man clad only in denim trousers and singlet closely examined each lump with a powerful torch.

Poised at the break of the quarterdeck he checked the position once more: the Surprise prise had already passed three ships, the Addington, Bombay castle and Camden, moving up in the opposite direction towards their turning-point.