What is "pris"

Usage examples of "pris".

It was in old French, and ran somewhat in this way: Or avant, entre nous tous freres Battons nos charognes bien fort En remembrant la grant misere De Dieu et sa piteuse mort Qui fut pris en la gent amere Et vendus et trais a tort Et bastu sa chair, vierge et dere Au nom de ce battons plus fort.

Ayant pris des renseignements, ils surent bientot, par des espions, que les Francais occupaient la foret.

The blast-pit where Nobu had held off the orts jangled with the lunatic colors of prisming superlight.

Il avait pris le bras de sa fille: --Et ca ne peut se dire que devant ta mere, votre affaire?

I kepe noght of armes for to yelpe, Ne I ne axe nat tomorwe to have victorie, Ne renoun in this cas, ne veyne glorie Of pris of armes blowen up and doun, But I wolde have fully possessioun Of Emelye, and dye in thy servyse.

For Barrows, for the entire gang of them, Barrows and Blunk and Colleen Nild and Bob Bundy and Pris.

Pris buries herself into his hug, smiling, then steps back with sparkling eyes.

Pris offered to drive me to my motel in my Chevvy, taking it home herself and picking me up the next morning.

And then from every s now and glacier-crowned peak, from minaret and pinnacle and towering turret, le aped for t h a confusion of soft peacock fla m es, a host of irised pris m atic gleamings, an ordered chaos of rainbows.

Last night in the dark, she hadn't noticed the engagement ring that Pris was wearing.

Because these tiny glimpses of the real Pris have become more valuable to me than all the fugues put together.

Maybe Pris had managed to convince other human beings that she was a replicant, and had served time along with a Rachael model in a sanctioned military brothel.

When Pris, on the run with the escaped replicants she had thought she was one of, had disguised herself as one of Sebastian’s mechanical creations, a leotarded bridal doll with a veil draped over her strawlike hair, she had finally achieved the nonhuman apotheosis her cracked brain had been seeking all along.

After eliminating Cleaver I had a parti pris, so to speak, in regard to Mannix.