prigg

Updated: June 25, 2025

Whatever doubt may have rested on any honest mind, respecting the meaning of the clause in relation to persons held to service or labor, must have been removed by the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Prigg versus The State of Pennsylvania.

American Anti-Slavery Society - The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4

Justice STORY, in the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Prigg vs. The State of Pennsylvania, tell us, I know not on what evidence, that without this "compromise," this security for Southern slaveholders, "the Union could not have been formed."

American Anti-Slavery Society - The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4

Prigg, my most upright lord, And these, what name or title e'er they bear, Jarkman, or Patrico, Cranke or Clapper-dudgeon, Frater or Abram-man I speak of all. Beggar's Bush.

Sir Walter Scott - Guy Mannering

Whatever doubt may have rested on any honest mind, respecting the meaning of the clause in relation to persons held to service or labor, must have been removed by the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Prigg versus the State of Pennsylvania.

American Anti-Slavery Society - The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4

They have time for big undertakings like Burns and Shakespeare and Blackstone." "I've noticed that facts get kind o' slippery when they come in a bunch, as they did on our journey," said Samson. "Seems so they wore each other smooth and got hard to hold." "Ransom Prigg used to say it was easy enough to ketch eels, but it was powerful hard to hold 'em," Abe remarked.

Irving Bacheller - A Man for the Ages: A Story of the Builders of Democracy

I wonder what Captain Prigg would have said, if he had seen such a turn-out as you, Mr Smith, on his quarter-deck." "I should have had one turn-out more," drawled Smith. "With your out-at-elbows jacket, there, heh!" continued Mr Appleboy. Smith turned up his elbows, looked at one and then at the other: after so fatiguing an operation, he was silent.

Frederick Marryat - Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2

I wonder what Captain Prigg would have said if he had seen such a turn-out as you, Mr. Smith, on his quarter-deck. 'I should have had one turn-out more, drawled Smith. 'With your out-at-elbows jacket, there, eh! continued Mr. Appleboy. Smith turned up his elbows, looked at one and then at the other; after so fatiguing an operation, he was silent.

Frederick Marryat - The Pirate, and The Three Cutters