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This yere fuss ain't your fault, an' yer never shot the man either." "No. I didn't, Dan. I never fired a gun." "I know it; that's why all hell can't pry me loose. I saw most ov the row, an' I reckon I ain't so dumb that I can't catch onto the game what Lacy is tryin' ter play.
Lanyard gathered them into a sheaf and scanned them cursorily, even with distaste. True enough, it might be argued that he had bought and paid for the right to pry into the secrets they betrayed; but it was not a right he enjoyed exercising.
He felt very relieved that at last he had an opportunity to relieve the anxiety of the people at home. The best part of the two hours was spent in "franking" that is censoring his men's letters. It was a very unwelcome task, and although he thoroughly appreciated the military necessity, he cordially hated being forced, as it were, to pry into their private affairs.
"Maybe the bear will go down quicker than we anticipate," said Snap. "But I reckon your suggestion is as good as anything." It took the best part of the morning to make a drag that was satisfactory and pry the big bear on it then the carcass was bound down with vines and cords. "Now, everybody be careful," cautioned Snap.
But as for these new-come horses, whereof, old man, thou askest me, they are Thracian, but their lord did brave Diomedes slay, and beside him all the twelve best men of his company. The thirteenth man was a spy we took near the ships, one that Hector and the other haughty Trojans sent forth to pry upon our camp."
The man is suspicious, does no trading, and Phormio’s wife told Sicinnus an odd tale.” “What tale?” Democrates glanced at a passing chariot, avoiding Themistocles’s gaze. “Why, twice the Barbarian, she swears, has had an evening visitor—and he our dear Glaucon.” “Impossible.” “Of course. The good woman is mistaken. Still, question her. Pry into this Babylonian’s doings.
I am not generally quarrelsome, as he is, nor do I care to pry into others' misdeeds, as he continually gives himself airs for doing. Now I will tell you what advice I have to give, not favoring Antony at all nor calumniating Caesar or Brutus, but planning for the common advantage, as is proper.
Some people are naturally Bohemian, however. It seemed to delight Jarvis to hear us tell about our team, and our college, and our prospects, and how lucky we had been up to date, not getting stepped on by any financial magnate or other tall city monument. He wasn't a talkative man himself. It was especially hard to pry any football talk out of him, probably because he was so modest.
I am perfectly satisfied that you will never be at rest until you learn the antecedents of my cook, my valet, my secretary " T. X. held up his hand with a laugh. "Spare me," he said. "It is one of my failings, I admit, but I have never gone much farther into your domestic affairs than to pry into the antecedents of your very interesting chauffeur."
But he is so thoroughly base that if I were you I would not trust her with him again." Henrietta wondered what he meant by that "not many more opportunities," but forebore to ask him lest she might unintentionally pry into some matter of which he did not wish to speak. Another enigmatical fragment from his secret thought came out when she asked his advice about her own relations with Brand.
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