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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Miriam has been quite upset by a letter from home; and this little episode this evening, which she cannot understand as we do, has so unstrung her that Mrs. Foster offered to send them over home in her sleigh. The side door had been barred, but Mr. Horton pried it open for them, so they had no need to come this way, and face everybody and explain." "You know how sorry I am," said Mrs. Button.
I wanted to be sure of it, so I thought I'd try this apparatus which I smuggled in from Paris last year. I believe the old man happened to be wakeful and heard it." Then he pried off the door of the interior compartment which had been jimmied open. "Perhaps we may learn something by looking at this door and studying the marks left by the jimmy, by means of this new instrument of mine," he said.
It was easy to force an entrance, as the fastening was made of wood, which same he pried off with a piece of iron. The fall of the lock roused us, for we were snoring away, in spite of our unfortunate situation.
Not content with stealing many unequaled works of art of priceless value, they often wantonly destroyed what it was impossible to carry away. In the tomb of Ferdinand and Isabella, at Granada, it will be remembered they pried open the royal coffins in search of treasure. At Seville they broke open the coffin of Murillo, and scattered his ashes to the wind.
One by one the split saplings were pried up and carried out for firewood, until the earth floor lay bare.
Blinky reluctantly pried a nickel loose from his finances and placed it on the counter. Duncan regarded it with disdain. "Ten cents more, please," he suggested tactfully. "What for?" "Plain sody." The explanation was accompanied by a very passable imitation of Blinky's blink.
"Did you notice, Joyce," she presently remarked, "that those two things are exactly the same shape, and almost the same size?" "Why, so they are!" exclaimed Joyce. "Oh, I have an idea, Cynthia! Can we open the locket? Let's try." She picked it up and pried at the catch with her thumb-nail. After a trifling resistance it yielded. The locket fell open and revealed itself empty.
So Umboo knelt down and put one of his big long teeth under a root. Then with a twist of his head he pried the root up from the ground. "There! See how easy it is!" said his mother. Then Umboo chewed the sweet root, but he did not swallow the hard, woody part. That would not have been good for him. "Oh, but this is sweet!" he cried, shutting his eyes as he chewed away.
But Peter signified that he did want it. "You better make sure." Peter was sure. "Now you've asked for it, and I'll give it to you, because there ain't anything mean about me; but if you find you don't like it, you mustn't blame anybody but your own self." Peter was agreeable. So Tom pried his mouth open and poured down the Pain-killer.
The story I am going to tell you is of someone who did disturb them, and pried upon them after laughing at them. The name of the youth was Barker, a great, idle, hulking fellow, who lived in the neighbourhood of the well where these little Buccas dwelt.
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