prayers
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Most recent pryers about the islands have been William K. Vanderbilt II and his wife, trapping sapphire-eyed cormorants, penguins pompous as bartenders, Galapagos tortoises with leathery shells, fish whose pied throats pulsate languidly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shrewd pryers at once thought of many another use for such a device.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the friendship of the discreet lover falls not before the mine of such false and felon pryers as burrow privily into their neighbour's secret love.
From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by France, Marie de
The landlord, recalled to prudence by the warning of his wife, answered dryly: "Stephane is Stephane, pryers are pryers, and sheep are put into the world to be sheared."
From The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels by Hawthorne, Julian
Two geraniums, unpruned and leafy, which stood on the sill, formed a further defence from out-door pryers.
From Mary Barton by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
