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- noun Plural form of
prier .
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Examples
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Uploaded on April 28, 2009 pleasure island still is damage if you didnt have a boat your out of luck all the priers are gone ghostboats are just seating on side of the road its bad to say the least
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Once they've got it, their selling might drive priers down, especially on the stocks that gained the most this year.
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It was put in the newses what he did, nicies and priers, the King fierceas Humphrey, with illysus dis-tilling, exploits and all.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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There are everywhere firebrands, mischief-makers, or, at least, malicious priers, who take a mad delight in seeing the nobility and the religious orders at variance; they observe it immediately, report it, and enlarge upon it
Chapter XIX 1909
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The mere fact that your presence is known will warn off priers.
The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley Louis Tracy 1895
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"In answering this question, he cannot forbear one of those touches of rhetoric for which he was so celebrated:" I will not answer this question by saying that he was preparing hell for priers into his mysteries.
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PAPISTS observe (such are curious priers into Protestants 'carriage) that charity in England lay in a swoon from the dissolution of abbeys, in the reign of King Henry the Eighth, till about the tenth of Queen
Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863
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Clarks fork through priers gape to to the yellow Stone River Returned to wind river in
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Against robbers and priers and -- "She caught Will's eye.
Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999
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In answering this question, he cannot forbear one of those touches of rhetoric for which he was so celebrated: "I will not answer this question by saying that he was preparing hell for priers into his mysteries.
History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science John William Draper 1846
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