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She was undressing her doll, prising the skirt off the plastic body. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
Ron was buried deepest: Harry and Hermione climbed, as quietly as they could, over all the wreckage to where he lay, trying to prise a heavy chest of drawers off his legs. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
Mastering himself again, he tried to prise the locket apart with his fingers, then attempted the charm Hermione had used to open Regulus’s bedroom door. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
Ron said, prising a fish bone out from between his teeth. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
Miss Kenton continued very gently to prise the book away, practically one finger at a time. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z
Could I prise it open with my fingernails? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
He remembered: He had even handled the thing as they passed it around, each trying in turn to prise it open. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
She looked at photographs of these men and women and felt the dull ache of loss, as though they had prised open her hand and taken something of hers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
These meerkats were most definitely a subspecies that had specialized in a fascinating and sur­prising way. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
Lee passed Harry the egg, and Harry dug his fingernails into the groove that ran all the way around it and prised it open. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
The sight is not the last of your sur­prises. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
Leo prised open a service panel near the snake’s head. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
Harry choked, attempting to prise off the metal fingers. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
The importance of physical coupling, when you first meet and then later as a form of communion when outside forces seem set on prising you apart, can’t be underestimated. Our relationship is perfect – except we don’t have sex | Dear Mariella 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z
Now, there’s a bigger question at play: can the allied forces prise Cersei off the Iron Throne, and if so, who should replace her? Dracarys! Is madness about to reign in Game of Thrones? 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z
Because Arts Council money is the thin end of a wedge prising open loads more investment. Arts funding cuts reveal the government's poor business sense 2010-07-27T15:12:00Z
It had been a struggle to prise these documents from Assange back in London. WikiLeaks: Strained relation, accusation ? and crucial revelations 2011-01-31T20:00:01Z
Hardy and Miller’s investigation prises open the community. Broadchurch is a place overrun with casual misogyny – just like real life 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z
But before you prise the matchbox from my cold, still hand, please let me know if there are any more "novelty" books from publishers' seasonal campaigns you would like to join the jolly conflagration. The most offensive novelty books yet 2010-10-26T11:30:00Z
For me that was very cool, because I was doing a lot of drugs and Mark prised lyrics and music out of me when no one else would have been able to. Charlatans musicians Tim Burgess and Mark Collins on their relationship 2013-05-19T06:07:02Z
The stories Prebble has prised from its crewmen, some named and some not, go beyond the Belgrano incident and its highly charged aftermath, and into waters previously uncharted by journalists and historians. Secrets of the Conqueror by Stuart Prebble – review 2012-10-12T07:00:02Z
Now comes the turn of Strictly Come Dancing judge Bruno Tonioli and an interview in which Piers promises to prise out revelations about the young dancer being bullied at school for being gay. TV highlights 15/03/2013 2013-03-15T07:00:01Z
It’s not easy to prise Frederick Wiseman away from his work. Frederick Wiseman: ‘I’m not a fly on the wall. I’m at least 2% conscious’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z
“We all tried so hard not to cry, but in the end I had to prise the youngest off him. We dropped him off, drove round the corner and all burst into tears.” 'I never imagined it would be so long': the couples kept apart by Covid rules 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z
He gently prised open the dog's jaws, told it that menthol was not for canine use, and slipped the lozenge under his own tongue. Nicholson Baker 2011-08-13T23:04:05Z
There’s scarcely a torture technique that Jack Bauer hasn’t employed to prise information from a suspect, apart from making them watch season six. The 10 most politically controversial TV shows of all time 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z
As it wraps around the building, this mottled shell is prised open to form a series of geometric layers in which hexagonal windows have been punched. Leeds Arena: giant mint helmet or technicolour dreamboat? 2013-04-25T11:23:00Z
Men shut down by their own brittle masculinity were gradually prised open until they felt able to participate in the world again. Is Netflix's Get Organized with The Home Edit the most 2020 show of 2020? 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z
In the aesthetic theory of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, wit is opposed to judgment, which is the skill of making fine distinctions, prising things apart. The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z
It as if the doors of our theatre, of their own volition, blow shut all the time, and the task is always to prise them back open. Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z
Most people buy a newspaper not to be prised from their settled opinion but to find it confirmed and comforted. So, you think reason guides your politics? Think again 2012-05-17T19:15:01Z
It’s a Victorian house and the wooden window frames are easy to prise open. Experience: a burglar made me think I was losing my mind 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z
Having tried and failed to prise out the reasons for her daughter's newfound scholastic enthusiasm, Betty drops Sally off for an overnight visit. Mad Men recap: season six, episode 12 – The Quality of Mercy 2013-06-19T22:00:00Z
There are some parents however, who might welcome a little help prising their children’s eyes off screens. This Country Just Made it Illegal to Give Kids Too Much Screen Time 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z
Hytner's current contract runs until 2013; he says he wants to be around for the NT's 50th birthday that October, but is keen for his fingertips not to be prised away from the desk. A life in theatre: Nicholas Hytner 2010-10-18T07:00:00Z
I found it difficult to get at her: after sweaty midnights, then throughout those cold dawns I struggled to prise apart her thin and resistant white limbs. 2010-01-01T00:14:00Z
The first thing to do when thinking about Boulez's music is to prise it apart from the phenomenon of Boulez the man's power, influence, and personality. A guide to Pierre Boulez's music 2012-07-16T15:49:00Z
He sliced into it with another fine tool, then prised out the section of bone. 'I just want to see the person I always saw in my head': the story of a face 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z
That's right: you get a prize for needing a TV show and the promise of a free holiday to finally prise that thumb out of your mouth. That Paralympic Show 2010-08-28T05:45:00Z
As the nonsense world of the song is prised open to ask such questions as "Who is Michael?" and "How did he die?" The Place Prize - review 2011-04-08T17:56:26Z
I refuse to spend my life lying in a dark room, moaning as someone attempts to prise off my cheek or occipital bones as if they were bottle caps. My slide back to OxyContin 2012-07-17T01:00:00Z
Miles could prise the most melancholy emotions from Sinatra tunes like It Never Entered My Mind – and that was mainstream stuff. Miles Davis: 'Coltrane was a very greedy man. Bird was, too. He was a big hog' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-11-06T13:26:00Z
Only the Shakespeare has been recovered, and today's verdict leaves the question hanging as to who prised open locked cabinets holding the books. Raymond Scott guilty of handling stolen folio of Shakespeare's plays 2010-07-09T17:08:00Z
I had a long car ride by myself, precious time, despite going to get my mouth prised open by the dentist. Laura Donnelly’s Week: ‘Dora the Explorer’ and a Poetry Prescription 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z
Gently prise the set custard away from the baking pan on to a cutting board, and cut into 10 even pieces. Isol-Asian cooking: pantry staple Chinese recipes from an unemployed chef 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z
On holidays, her husband tries to prise away the laptop. Director Wanuri Kahiu: 'The vilest comments have been from people I love' 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z
The previous editor, game girl, took some shifting: "I feel as if I'm prising each finger off and she's clinging to the ledge." The Lady and the Revamp and Storyville: Kings of Pastry | TV Review 2010-03-19T06:45:00Z
I prised it from my breast and shook it out. Tim Key's exclusive Ode to the Edinburgh festival 2011-07-29T16:30:00Z
Unknown hands prised the artwork, entitled Slave Labour and showing a small barefooted boy making Union Jack bunting in a sewing machine, from the wall of a Poundland shop in Wood Green last week. Banksy mural mystery deepens as it heads for sale in Miami 2013-02-20T13:55:00Z
Maybe the likes of Clint Eastwood, who seems intent on directing until Warner Bros prises the bullhorn from his cold dead hands, are more straightforward with themselves about their need to do the job. Why are so many directors un-retiring? 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z
It sees the actor and broadcaster turn his wit, and passion for quirky facts, on Zeus, Apollo and many more – as well as prising open the lid of Pandora’s jar … Can lessons from Watergate prepare us for Trump? – best podcasts of the week 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z
Get your thumbs into the middle of your cauliflower and prise it apart. Jack Monroe’s cauliflower pasanda – recipe 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z
Inspired, Hawk prised a panel off the stall door and found secreted inside letters that may well be from Laura Palmer’s diary. Twin Peaks recap: episode six – we've waited over 25 years for this moment 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z
Every two minutes they would prise off the space helmet head to let her breathe. Robot & Frank: vision of the future? 2013-03-08T09:21:04Z
But complaints have to be prised out of the children because for them, acting is simply a thrill. A quick curtain call. Then bed: Child actors in adult theatre 2010-05-05T20:30:00Z
One colleague eventually managed to prise open the door, Ms Goddard said, preventing the knife from striking again. FedEx driver who stabbed boss over pay got wages hour before stabbing - court 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z
Residents strain to prise up concrete rubble with bare hands. Airstrikes flatten blocks of Gaza refugee camp, bringing rage, grief and a perilous new phase of war 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z
Cook went on and on, churning out the runs, a prised scalp on the circuit, still one of the best openers in the country long after he stopped playing for England. 'Batted, Chef - Cook retires as last of his kind' 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z
The significant international response helped bring about some incredible moments of the trapped being prised from under the rubble, even days later. Morocco earthquake: "We need help from whomever will give it' 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z
It took just seven minutes for the visitors to prise open the Clarets backline as Ollie Watkins ran through and chipped the ball to the back post for Cash to finish. Cash scores twice as Villa pick apart Burnley 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z
Then they prised the Leonardo masterpiece off the wall with an axe and ran to their getaway car. How my dad rescued a stolen £40m da Vinci masterpiece 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z
They smile at the camera bashfully, young and smooth-skinned and full of hope, blind to the ways life would prise them apart. The Immigrant Experience in a Danish Butter Cookie Tin 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z
"We had to prise the knife off him to get him into the car and get him into hospital." Mental health: Mum wants apology for killer son and victim 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z
When the bin was prised open, officers found bags of washing powder stacked on top of concrete. Police search for the names of 22 women murdered 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z
Back at the cemetery, change cannot come soon enough for Fethiye, who is scarred by memories of prising her dead son from the rubble - with her bare hands, and only her relatives for help. Turkey elections: Aftershocks of anger and grief in the quake-hit nation 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z
In interviews he is straight-talking and to the point, but answers almost have to be prised from him. Brook on baseball, striking sixes & Ashes sledging 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z
Later, hundreds of people gathered in the nearby Independence Square, a symbol of Ukraine's attempts to prise itself from Russia's sphere of influence and move closer to the European Union. Zelenskiy leads tributes to revered Ukrainian fighter killed in Bakhmut 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z
Although they dominated for an extended period at the start of the second half, Everton lacked the guile to prise open a determined home defence. Bowen scores twice as West Ham beat Everton 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z
Ex-Great Britain rugby league international Forshaw has been prised away from Premiership outfit Sale to be in charge the Wales defence. Owens to captain Wales in 2023 Six Nations 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z
The pair - still entangled - were pulled from the pool by Beau's elderly grandfather and the boy was prised free from the animal by his dad Ben. Australia: Five-year-old rescued from python by dad and elderly grandad 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z
The nurses saw through the plaster and then, in a cloud of dust, prise it off her leg. Changing the lives of Senegalese people disabled by clubfoot 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z
But the passing of the crown from Queen Elizabeth II, who reigned for 70 years, to her son King Charles II has prised open the republican debate and reheated the movement. Labour republicans say national anthem doesn’t marry with party values 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z
He added that the "frame had been prised from the adjacent wall, most likely with the intention to be used to smash the window". Cameron House: Men tried to smash window to escape fire 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z
The "astronomical" costs of electricity, heating and ingredients have led to companies like Wickedly Welsh Chocolate having to raise prises. Cost of living: Chocolate producers forced to raise prices 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z
One black-clad officer crouched near the head of the grave, delicately prising a green-tinted hand free from the dirt, while a colleague stood by, holding a clipboard, making careful notes. Grave by grave, police and war crimes investigators comb a Ukrainian forest 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z
Later on Monday, the David Oluwale Memorial Association said it had been prised off the wall and taken. David Oluwale: Blue bridge plaque stolen hours after unveiling 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z
Their inexperienced bowling attack, however, lacked the tools on a slow pitch to prise out a batter who played brilliantly. England blunted by Brathwaite in draw 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z
In the end it took Lawrence's unconventional spin to prise out a West Indies centurion, the 24-year-old backing his dismissal of Bonner in the first Test. Brathwaite and Blackwood thwart England 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z
The thief then slid under his gate and spent "six or seven minutes trying to prise it off". Life-sized plastic gorilla stolen from Frome home in dawn raid 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z
White’s pieces remain en prise, but some tricky tactics will leave Van Foreest with a rook and two pawns for two minor pieces: 23. Van Foreest battles in bid to repeat at super-strong Tata Steel chess tournament 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z
It will be tough to prise him away from the Amex Stadium, but he is definitely the sort of option who would suit the Toffees. Who could replace Benitez at Everton? 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z
Postecoglou has won titles in his homeland and Japan, where he was prised from Yokohama Marinos, as well as managing Australia at a World Cup. Chaos to silverware for Postecoglou 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z
We tread over white sticky plastic mats, designed to prise off any bugs and dirt to protect and preserve. The Rotterdam museum set to display its entire art collection 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z
Almost from day one at Ibrox, the striker has been linked with a big-money move, but interest from Qatar and France has thus far failed to prise away Rangers' most sellable asset. How Morelos hit 100 goals for Rangers 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z
Arsenal, meanwhile, will look to move the ball quickly – from side to side if necessary – in order to prise Palace open. Arsenal v Crystal Palace: Premier League - live! 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z
In China, producer prises rose at their fastest clip since the series began in 1996, data on Thursday showed. Stocks up, dollar squeezed as inflation pulls forward rate hike bets 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z
He tried to escape through his front door, but to his shock, it wouldn't move an inch - he could not prise it open against the powerful cascade of water. The flood that drowned American dreams 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z
Big moment from Casey, though ... well, possibly, if Europe can somehow prise something out of this match. Ryder Cup: USA v Europe, day two foursomes – live! 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z
She said a friend had to prise open the jaws of one of the dogs from her three-year-old toy poodle Ruby. Poodle killed in 'horrific' dog attack in Poplar 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z
But by the time she was prised free, she had lost consciousness, he said. Trapped in Basements and Cars, They Lost Their Lives in Savage Storm 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z
At the time, the £34m Liverpool spent on prising Mane away from Southampton made him the most expensive African player in history. The most memorable Premier League debuts by big-money signings? 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z
Some materials they tested couldn't even be prised apart with pliers, he said. Lego aims to make bricks from recycled bottles on sale in two years 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z
A player former Ajax and Netherlands great Dennis Bergkamp earmarked as a future first-teamer when he was 11 and one who was also prised away from the Dutch club for a relatively large fee. Can De Jong & De Ligt inspire Dutch resurgence? 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z
Ms Guglielmi said one of her friends and another man in the park tried to prise the dog's jaw open but "it had sunk into her skin". Poodle killed in 'horrific' dog attack in Poplar 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z
The rest of the Premier League will look on at City and Chelsea with gimlet eyes, but the transfer window is about to be prised open. Champions League final and play-offs news – weekend football countdown! 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z
That will mean that efforts to prise Trump from office will move to impeachment. House seeks Trump removal as it heads to 25th amendment showdown vote – live updates 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z
George had broken the frame and prised it apart. ‘Our foster child asked us to adopt him – by drawing himself on to a family photo’ 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z
Leicester struggled with Liverpool’s set pieces throughout, but were also prised apart in open play for the second. Jota strikes again as Liverpool ease to record-breaking win over Leicester 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z
Four summers ago Arsenal tried to prise Vardy away from Leicester and he continues to pile on the regret with every game. Sub Vardy helps Leicester beat Arsenal 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z
Deep cracks are being prised open in the core institutions and structures of democracy itself that beg the question: is the edifice revered for more than 200 years quite as solid and robust as assumed? 'Our democracy is deeply imperiled': how democratic norms are under threat ahead of the US election 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z
A year after Barcelona tried to force Rakitic out, using him to try to prise Neymar out of Paris and prompting him to note that he is “not a sack of potatoes”, they said farewell. Ivan Rakitic's move brings revelry at Sevilla and relief in Barcelona 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z
The NRA has been the most powerful gun lobby in the world since another former president of the group Charlton Heston promised to resist efforts to prise firearms “from my cold, dead hands”. Coronavirus US: death toll tops 160,000 as relief package impasse continues – live updates 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z
Questions about its effectiveness have hovered around it thanks to questions over its membership and its ability to prise real accountability out of an often-reluctant secret state. Intelligence committee faces credibility challenge 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z
"They will try and prise the diving gear off my head -- but they know the difference between what is gear and what is my face. They wouldn't dig their flippers into my face." British diver photobombed after getting underwater cuddle from grey seal 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z
Remove from the sheet by prising a palette knife underneath. Nigel Slater's top 10 spring recipes 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z
The hallway was lined with glossy black lacquered bricks, which prised away from the walls to form freestanding perforated screens, while exotic light fittings were crafted from paper and ostrich eggs. A €22m chair? Eileen Gray, the design genius who scared the pants off Corbusier 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z
Some Amazon Kindles are constructed using glued plastic casing that is all but impossible to prise open. Planned obsolescence: the outrage of our electronic waste mountain 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z
That they were able to prise her from the world champions was down to a “combination of things”, according to Scott. Dawn Scott: England's 'secret' weapon in push to be the world's best 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z
Three members of staff on the unit recalled Wawrzynczak swearing at the man, smacking his legs and trying to forcibly prise them apart to wash him. Nurse attack put intensive care patient 'in agony' 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z
She said scrapping the House of Lords was only the beginning, as the British state “needs a seismic shock to prise it open at all levels to the people”. Labour must stir up democratic revolution to win power, says Long-Bailey 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z
And then there's the problem of prising teens away from their phones. Nine lessons for a happy family Christmas 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z
We welcome back to the Commons Caroline Lucas, who will hold the seat of Brighton Pavilion until it is prised from her hands. The absolute state of it: lowlights from the opening of parliament 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z
I will prise you from the rigor-mortis grip of your anxieties and tell you what time of day to email people. Vomiting at Work Doesn’t Mean You’re Bad at Your Job 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z
By the end of the 1960s, many of the doors that had long been closed to urban blacks were suddenly prised open. No room at the top: why are US boardrooms still so white? 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z
Arsenal came out full of determination to equalise and had plenty of the ball but could not prise open the hosts. Lys Mousset capitalises on Arsenal failings to boost Sheffield United 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z
“There are massive opportunities for UK companies to open up, to prise open the American market,” Johnson told reporters. UK's Johnson tells Trump: Lower your trade barriers to seal UK deal 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z
"There are massive opportunities for UK companies to open up, to prise open the American market," Mr Johnson said. US must compromise to get UK trade deal - Johnson 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z
It was 12.43am, local time, when the teams were finally prised apart. Liverpool sink Chelsea to lift Super Cup thanks to Adrián shootout save 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z
They eventually prised it open with a crowbar and divided the cash found inside. Robbery gang 'held knife to baby's neck' 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z
Racism was the wedge the enemies of cosmopolitanism and plurality used to prise open a broader cleavage that is dividing us all. Shocked by the rise of the right? Then you weren’t paying attention | Gary Younge 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z
Puwanarajah, dressed in inky tones but with a neon lick from his emerald socks, prises apart the rhetoric, suggests tiny movements, shares family stories and ideas about PTSD. Sex, money and idiots in power: Restoration comedy's endless appeal 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z
This represents about 5% of real estate transactions, and the panel estimated these purchases - which were often overvalued - had the effect of raising prises overall by 5%. The unlikely city gangs love to invest in 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z
The US will use this as a lever to prise the EU away from the agreement, or at least to demand that the EU impose sanctions of its own. Iran nuclear deal: what has Tehran said and what happens next? 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z
Bruno’s simple cross prised the visitors apart, Murray finding space to nod back across goal for Gross, so rusty until then, to exploit space between Fernández and Dummett and guide in a close-range header. Brighton thrown lifeline as Pascal Gross earns draw against Newcastle 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z
The struggle to prise them away from a life spent online is a familiar one for many beleaguered parents. How can you stop your kids viewing harmful web content? 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z
It was the reward for sharp counterattacking and meticulous defending, as Palace successfully prevented their hosts from prising them apart. Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z
“I remember that feeling of prising open a lid to express what I wanted to do and feeling so stupid immediately after. At the time I thought: ‘Oh, they’re right. Jonah Hill: ‘I am serious. If I deny that I’ll go crazy’ 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z
You’ll have to prise my cold dead fingers from this gig. Jay Rayner: my 20 years as a restaurant critic 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z
Here it is difficult to prise apart French and un-French elements. Just who are the gilets jaunes? 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z
It was so big, that as Mr Deason wrote "I tried to prise the nugget up with the pick but the handle broke. I then got a crowbar and raised the nugget to the surface". World's largest gold nugget remembered 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z
But not every EU state has issued the Sunday ultimatum, and Russia is looking to see if these divisions can be prised open. Venezuela's Guaidó urging west to keep up pressure, says Hunt 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z
Several hours after Nokha Devi walked into a lost and found centre, the volunteers are still unable to prise any information from her. Getting lost in the world's biggest crowd 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z
The only problem is trying to prise Djokovic’s fingers off the trophy. Novak Djokovic v Rafael Nadal: Australian Open final – live! 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z
But instead of volleying into an open court to prise a set point off the Swiss, he pushed the forehand well wide. Federer fends off British 'mirror' Evans to advance 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z
But prising him away from Spurs chairman Daniel Levy would prove extremely difficult, if not impossible. José Mourinho sacked: Manchester United to appoint caretaker – live reaction! 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z
A small group tried to prise up paving stones, but they were a minority, and were quickly hauled out of the crowd. Paris under siege as gilets jaunes open ‘Act IV’ – a fourth weekend of protest 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z
Negotiators from the two countries held talks in New Delhi on Wednesday to try to prise open each other’s farm markets. India's Modi and China's Xi aim to build on thaw in ties at G20... 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z
Once upon a time a 2-0 lead for a Mourinho team was a dead game but this was prised back open, chances cropping up at both ends. Lukaku and Smalling strike as Manchester United end Watford’s streak 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z
The manager remains in pole position to prise Riyad Mahrez from Leicester City, though an agreement between the clubs is yet to be agreed. Manchester City close in on £43m move for Napoli’s Jorginho 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z
He is also steadily prising the fingers of the dos Santos clan from the levers of power. Angola’s new president, João Lourenço, has made an encouraging start 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z
Manchester United’s players naturally wanted to do anything and everything within the rules to stop Arsenal from waltzing in and prising the trophy directly from their hands. Arsène Wenger out to avoid final Old Trafford indignity with Arsenal | Amy Lawrence 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z
Israel wants to use Bashar al-Assad’s alleged overreach as a lever to change the strategic balance in Syria, mainly by prising Russia away from Iran, its key partner in the country. Syria mediators take centre stage as moment for rapid strike passes 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z
Russia failed at the United Nations security council to prise apart the British diplomatic alliance that accuses Moscow of being responsible for the poison attack last month on Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury. Salisbury nerve agent attack: Russian demand for joint investigation rejected 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z
Real cemented their position as the game’s biggest spenders when they prised the Portuguese from Manchester United. Transfer window verdict: how every Premier League club fared in January 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z
The Russians pushed hard to prise break points from Mladenovic as she served out the match but the French-Hungarian duo held firm to close out the match in one hour and 20 minutes. Tennis: Babos, Mladenovic win Australian Open women's doubles 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z
Even now, in this window, other clubs sought to prise him away. Philippe Coutinho starts new era as Barcelona prepare for life after Iniesta 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z
She was just eight on the day she was prised from her family of subsistence coffee farmers, her school friends, neighbours, village, and country. 'This is my mum': after 40 years a stolen child finally returns home 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z
The other artwork was painted on the wall and showed two cherubic angels trying to prise two panels apart with a crowbar. Banksy and Boyle stage 'Alternativity' 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z
Several of the officers went into the water to try to free them, with Ms Wright going underwater and prising the car door open with a crowbar. Police officers honoured for bravery 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z
The Russians pushed hard to prise break points from Mladenovic as she served out the match but the French-Hungarian duo held firm to close out the match in one hour and 20 minutes. Tennis: Babos, Mladenovic win Australian Open women's doubles 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z
Despite trailing, Tottenham felt confident of prising open an unconvincing defence and it did not come as a surprise when they equalised three minutes after the break. Spurs secure top spot after Son Heung-min screamer sinks Borussia Dortmund 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z
Anthem, which may lose CVS as a partner if antitrust authorities prise the two firms apart as a condition of approving a CVS-Aetna deal, may soon be shopping for a new PBM. A merger between CVS Health and Aetna could be what the doctor ordered 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z
Will it be an insurgent candidate like Simmons, who would seem more at home than Dent in Trump’s America, eager to prise at the partisan divide? Trump's big test: will his swing voters stay loyal? 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z
Several migrants fled the scene after officials prised open the truck door. Sixty migrants found locked in icy truck on US-Mexico border - BBC News 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z
In England, players of inferior ability are shuttled between top-flight clubs for fees several times what it would cost to prise him from City. How Samir Nasri went from being the ‘new Zidane’ to an outcast | Nick Ames 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z
However, given Real’s intent that he should stay and the player’s desire to do so it seems unlikely United will be able to prise him away. Gareth Bale told he is future of Real Madrid in blow to Manchester United 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z
So in a sense what you’ve got is a minority of people who are just trying to prise this open again. Theresa May urged to adopt Labour-style approach to Brexit - politics live 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z
Mr Xi prises open markets, but many of China’s own remain closed—and where foreigners may operate, the fear is of technology being stolen. Will China fill the vacuum left by America? 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z
IN THE dead of night workers prised the statue off its base, raised it onto the back of a truck and hauled it away. Bangladesh’s government is pandering to Islamist zealots 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z
She watched Cardenas as he began to prise the cast from her body. The race to build the world’s first sex robot 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z
The group was trapped for about 20 minutes until a rescue crew from the Miami-Dade fire department prised open the doors with a crowbar. Ben Carson rescued from stuck elevator during Miami housing tour 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z
Democracy, in other words, had to be prised from the reluctant grasp of the British by Indian nationalists. 'But what about the railways ...?' ​​The myth of Britain's gifts to India 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z
"He wouldn't venture information, so you'd have to try to prise it out of him. "I would never in a million years have matched them up as a couple. Helen Bailey: A life shaped by death - BBC News 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z
The enemy would require no more than a Starbucks worth of laptop-hammering geeks, or a small barking dog, to prise loose all my deepest secrets. John Burnside: ‘Writing is what I steal from the usual flow of things’ 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z
Security pins had to be added to the windows after it was discovered that high winds could prise them open: in one early incident, a TV was sucked out of an upper-floor apartment. 'The building creaks and sways': life in a skyscraper 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z
The idea that they can use this moment to prise Labour's traditional support away certainly rattles many in Corbyn's party. UKIP hopes for Brexit boost in Stoke - BBC News 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z
Not until 15 minutes from time did United really prise Stoke’s defence open again. Wayne Rooney breaks Manchester United scoring record with equaliser against Stoke City 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z
But the further goals their performance deserved finally came when Michael Carrick prised open the Reading defence with a precise pass for Rashford, who finished confidently for his first goal in 18 games. Manchester United 4-0 Reading 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z
The Crystal Palace manager had suggested Conte’s team are looking “unbeatable” on the eve of this fixture and, for all his own side’s ferocious commitment, they could not prise them apart. Diego Costa sends Chelsea soaring at Palace with 11th straight league win 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z
"Virgin slabs of white limestone rock are being prised from the coastline rocks," he tells the BBC. Bermuda walkers told to stop stacking rocks - BBC News 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z
You’ve got keep going until they prise it out of your hands. 'Making "Star Wars" is a team sport': 'Rogue One' director Gareth Edwards on reshoots, inspiration and trepidation 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z
The locals were breached almost at will, Arsenal picking their moments to prise them apart with that familiar slickly constructed approach play. Arsenal finish as group winners after Lucas Pérez hits hat-trick in Basel 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z
These are spaces that have been designed from the inside out, prised open in a process of keyhole surgery, with an acute sensitivity to the experience of rising through the building. 'We thought it was going to destroy us' … Herzog and De Meuron's Hamburg miracle 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z
Much of the money the thieves managed to prise from Bangladesh Bank ended up in the Philippines. Failure to publish a report stokes a bank-heist scandal 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z
Three midwives had to prise them apart because they said my baby only had a quarter of the space he needed to come out into the world. Rape victims suffer 'flashbacks' during childbirth - BBC News 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z
The European Commission, which polices the single market, has tried to prise open some of the more protected areas of Europe’s economy. Single-market blues 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z
In the meantime, the rivalry between Turkey and Iran is prising Kurdistan apart. Dream on hold 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z
Other EU financial centres would certainly welcome the chance to prise lucrative business away from London. JP Morgan warns of Brexit jobs threat - BBC News 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z
It ends speculation the Argentinian could be prised away at the end of the season and has come as a relief to the players, who were growing nervous about their manager’s future. Mauricio Pochettino: Tottenham motivation against Chelsea is ‘massive’ 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z
Exhaustive efforts to tear down Ukraine's largest remaining monument to Vladimir Lenin bore fruit on Thursday when workers prised the late Soviet leader's statue from its plinth in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhya. Ukraine tears down giant Lenin statue, live on YouTube 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z
A plumber, he said he fetched some tools and a ladder and prised some window bars open to rescue a woman crying for help. Quake fells Taiwan apartment building, at least five dead 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z
This contest needed a spark, a flash of brilliance to prise a defence apart, with last season’s player of the year eventually flung on with 17 minutes to go. Watford’s Heurelho Gomes flexes to keep Chelsea at bay 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z
Long in the shadow of the Swiss master, Dimitrov played some irresistible tennis to prise a set but was powerless to maintain the intensity under a closed roof at Rod Laver Arena. Federer defuses Dimitrov challenge to seal 300th slam win 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z
In their efforts to make the party newly electable, Tony Blair and his predecessors prised decision-making powers away from its left-wing members; by creating a loyal National Policy Forum, for example. Don Corbote’s dodgy sally 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z
Mowatt is a clever, left-footed playmaker and with little stability at Leeds these days, a top-flight club may try to prise him away. 50 players who could be on the move 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z
And United, lacking a jarring tempo, have yet to really look like prising them apart. Manchester United v PSV Eindhoven: Champions League – live! 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z
That included broken doors and gates, and the shutter to the basement lift access which had been prised open. Hatton Garden raid 'largest in English history' - BBC News 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z
But you can prise it open with musical instruments. A Point of View: Why it's time to turn the music off - BBC News 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z
The Red Bulls settled, though, with Kljestan gradually prising spaces open between the defence and midfield. Canny Seattle top Dallas, and MLS says goodbye to Eddie Johnson 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z
But it also reflects growing frustration at how difficult it is to prise open top French jobs. Caste iron 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z
And United, lacking a jarring tempo, have yet to really look like prising them apart. Manchester United v PSV Eindhoven: Champions League – live! 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z
Palace’s immediate task is to ward off any late interest in prising Bolasie away before Tuesday’s transfer deadline. Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend's action 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z
But there remains the possibility, however slim, that Stones will have been prised away by then and is lining up for, rather than against, Chelsea that afternoon – and where might that leave Terry? Premier League: 10 talking points from this weekend’s action 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z
While the club may try and prise a higher fee for him it is understood City’s offer is close to being acceptable. Manchester City make second bid of £47m for Wolfsburg’s Kevin De Bruyne 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z
I just have a feeling they might be able to prise Gareth Bale or Cristiano Ronaldo away from Real Madrid, and that would make a massive difference to the title race. Who will be the champions? 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z
The 20-times champions are unmoved by Real’s track record of being able to prise virtually every target they want from a particular club. Manchester United refuse to sell David De Gea unless they get Sergio Ramos 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z
Yet the visitors did not learn and, moments later, that combination prised them apart again with Austin’s cross nodded in by Phillips, leaping above Janmaat, at the far post. Queens Park Rangers 2-1 Newcastle United | Premier League match report 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z
So if Chelsea are to prise him from the club that fourth offer may need to be in the £40m-plus region to tempt them into relenting. Premier League: 10 talking points from this weekend’s action 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z
In front of a drab government building near Vietnam's northern border with China, a young conservationist named Nguyen Van Thai prises open a flimsy wooden crate with a machete. The world's most-trafficked mammal - and the scaliest 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z
“We've prised open lots of windows for people to climb in and attack the biology of schizophrenia,” says Michael O'Donovan of Cardiff University in Wales, another lead author. Massive Study Reveals Schizophrenia's Genetic Roots 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z
It is hard to imagine the Hindu good luck symbol ever being prised from Hitler's semiotic clutches. Potent and provocative symbol of the flag 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z
Eventually she had to physically prise the book from my hands. 'Am I being catfished?' An author confronts her number one online critic 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z
It was particularly encouraging to see Wenger’s two forward recruits, Sánchez and Welbeck, teaming up to prise open a contest Arsenal were under pressure to win. Arsenal’s Danny Welbeck, Mesut Özil and Alexis Sánchez faze Galatasaray 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z
Then at about four o’clock, the hosts hoiked themselves up into one of the flats, prised off the boards and invited in guests. For real politics, don’t look to parliament but to an empty London housing estate 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z
His youthful ability was so staggering when Chelsea spotted him as a teenager, their determination to prise him away from Lille was sufficient to withstand substantial punishment to get him. Madness of Premier League loan game 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z
Arsenal will miss his ability to prise opponents apart at the Emirates next week, particularly with this tie still very much on edge. Arsenal weather Besiktas storm and red card for Aaron Ramsey 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z
A gravedigger dug down to a coffin and prised open her lid. Edinburgh fringe 2014: the 10 best jokes so far 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z
I had to prise it from his hands later with a shoehorn, but that seemed a reasonable exchange for 30 minutes of peace. Want to silence a two-year-old? Try teaching it to ride a motorbike 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z
It would cost around £15m to prise him from the German club. Patrice Evra likely to join Juventus after asking to leave Manchester United 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z
It is tempting, and a much better tale, to suspect Liverpool are falling foul of an elaborate plot designed to prise Luis Suárez from their grasp and into the forgiving embrace of Barcelona. Money will write Luis Suárez’s future as Barcelona prepare to bare teeth 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z
Could England have done more to try to prise Sangakkara out? Sangakkara a true modern great - Agnew 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z
Working a knife gently into a crack in the frame, Christian prises it apart to reveal a hidden compartment in which an iron cross sat snugly. Smelly job of saving a unique bomber 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z
Its diplomats were midwives at the independent country’s birth in 2011, prising territory including oilfields out of the hands of its longstanding foe, the government of the rump state of Sudan in Khartoum. An easier part of the world—not 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z
Small moons known as shepherd satellites were suggested to prise open lanes in the Uranian rings and to confine their edges. Solar System: Ring in the new 2014-04-04T13:57:46.871Z
Rick Snyder, Michigan’s governor, will need to prise $350m from state lawmakers, who happen to be flush with unexpected extra tax revenues. Detroit’s bankruptcy: Cram down 2014-02-27T16:07:00Z
The method of catching paua is very simple, dive down in shallow waters and prise them off the rocks. Abalone boom 'like lottery win' for NZ fishermen 2014-02-09T20:30:49Z
Djokovic knuckled down to hold serve and prised two set points off his opponent's serve. Wawrinka Dumps Djokovic Out of Australian Open 2014-01-21T12:53:08Z
Those dilettantes thought to get such a prise almost for free, just talking to ukrainians about future prosperity leaving them alone with their problems. Ukraine and the EU: Politics of brutal pressure 2013-11-22T16:48:50Z
Swindlers commonly prise information from the unsuspecting over the phone by posing as, say, Medicare reps. Stealing from the government: SIRF’s up 2013-11-28T15:58:36Z
They tug at the corrugated iron, prising it away to enter the living room - but it is death they are looking for. Looking for bodies in the rubble of Tacloban 2013-11-23T01:36:48Z
This has shifted emphasis from hardware upgrades to real-time tweaks in efficiency and tactics to prise an extra millisecond or two from car and driver. Laps to laptops: Formula One sells its big data know-how 2013-10-24T21:07:47Z
He may be hoping that, within the ranks of the EU, geo-political expediency and the historic chance of prising Ukraine free from Russia will outweigh principle. Viktor, Yulia feud holds key to EU deal with Ukraine 2013-10-07T10:46:26Z
His team are trying to prise Alonso away from Ferrari to team him with Button. Hamilton fastest in first practice 2013-09-20T11:45:12Z
They say they dislike sprawl, yet they abhor efforts to pack more people into their neighbourhoods or prise them from their cars. Zoning laws: Biking and hiking, but no parking 2013-07-25T14:59:46Z
Looking at the history of trying to coax and prise out overdue babies since ancient times is not a sentimental trip down memory lane. #GreatKateWait: Baby s due, but might not have gotten the memo 2013-07-20T20:15:00.637Z
The cast has changed radically for a start: no Conservative government with a solid majority, but a coalition that may be prised apart after the next election. Royal Mail privatisation: don't tell Sid – warn him 2013-07-10T22:11:59Z
Speaking from hospital, Mr Koch said he did not remember being attacked but wrestled the man to the ground and eventually prised the commando-style knife from him. Mosque stab PC's 'debt of thanks' 2013-06-17T14:50:24Z
They did a pretty good job of it, although Mousa Dembélé prised them open in the 75th minute with a wriggly run before feeding Bale, who shot just wide from nine yards. Stoke City 1-2 Tottenham Hotspur 2013-05-12T14:39:01Z
The visitors' passing was not inventive enough to prise a diligent Fulham apart, making Wenger's team a lot like skint philanthropists – full of worthy intentions but lacking the ability to implement them. Fulham 0-1 Arsenal 2013-04-20T16:08:33Z
They had prised their opponents apart far too easily when on the front foot through the first period. Southampton 2-1 Chelsea 2013-03-30T17:05:25Z
At White Hart Lane, when visitors tend to mass players behind the ball, Tottenham have struggled to prise them open. Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend 2013-03-29T09:00:05Z
As against Derby, however, Cardiff prised a point from the jaws of defeat, Gestede equalising with a header from Andrew Taylor's left-wing cross in added time. Cardiff City 1-1 Leicester City 2013-03-12T21:59:59Z
A gentle pinch and the flesh is prised apart to reveal layers of tissue. Touch Surgery: the iPad app that teaches surgeons how to operate 2013-02-27T11:55:25Z
Gethin Jenkins was a terror round the field, as of yore, and played his part in a scrum that eventually prised Italy open. Italy 9-26 Wales 2013-02-23T16:45:20Z
Successive attempts to prise open markets over the past 15 years made some progress but ultimately failed. Analysis: EU-U.S. trade talks promise both prizes and pitfalls 2013-02-18T08:05:22Z
Martin O'Neill has spent much of this transfer window attempting to prise the striker Danny Graham away from Swansea. Premier League: 10 talking points from the midweek action 2013-01-31T11:01:55Z
After all I have contributed to the clubs success last two seasons I hoped to at least get a low prise. Odemwingie fury at rejected bid 2013-01-28T10:29:21Z
He saw starfish prising open mussels, and predatory sea snails drilling into barnacles. The Man Whose Dynasty Changed Ecology 2013-01-16T18:15:00.270Z
One protestor suspended 10m off the woodland floor screamed in apparent pain as he was prised from his rope net eyrie, handcuffed and squeezed into a harness before lowering him the ground to be arrested. Road scheme protesters 'to lose' 2013-01-10T07:30:58Z
The Colombian will remain a long-term target and may be prised away from Atlético in the summer, but alternatives will now be pursued. Rafael Benítez confident he will win over Chelsea's fans 2012-12-25T23:01:01Z
She wears white gloves to prise open the lid, cautiously, to reveal the cigarettes and the packet of tobacco next to them. Long tradition of UK troop gifts 2012-12-25T06:00:10Z
I say – I have served the club well and deserve at least to have a prise now so I can plan my probably last move in England. Odemwingie fury at rejected bid 2013-01-28T10:29:21Z
So when Paine tried to prise the creatures off the rocks along the Pacific coast, he found that his brute strength simply wasn't enough. The Man Whose Dynasty Changed Ecology 2013-01-16T18:15:00.270Z
He would offer something Chelsea do not possess, though whether he can be prised from the money-flushed world champions remains to be seen. Rafael Benítez must drag Chelsea from disappointment to delight 2012-12-17T23:00:02Z
You must pull off the legs and claws, prise open the shells and scrape, pick, suck and crunch until you have extracted every last, delicious morsel. The hairy crabs of eastern China 2012-12-15T00:33:43Z
The grave slab at Highgate Cemetery in London was removed, the coffin prised open, and the manuscript removed and disinfected. 10 people who have been exhumed 2012-11-27T12:31:31Z
Paramilitary police fired volleys of teargas to prise the battling factions apart. Rioters attack ethnic Somalis in Kenyan capital 2012-11-19T17:11:30Z
We could turn the system of mutual legal assistance, whereby governments are supposed to co-operate to prise information out of suspected criminals and witnesses, from a sham into a reality. Guinea's battle against corruption: which side is the west on? 2012-11-15T18:45:00Z
Will the Republican outreach prise this state, and possibly the presidency, from Obama? Romney campaign makes strong bid for Obama-leaning Latino voters in Nevada 2012-10-29T15:04:47Z
Admittedly Aston Villa expressed mild interest in prising the centre-forward away from Wolves but it was really only Sunderland who set their heart on Fletcher. Why haven't more managers courted Scotland returnee Steven Fletcher? 2012-10-03T10:02:22Z
He added: "The intention is that these would be longer-term loans with a maturity of about 10 years, that small businesses find hard to prise out of our risk-averse banks." 'Business bank' to boost lending 2012-09-24T12:45:31Z
Some developing nations and emerging powers are galvanised by the prospect of prising jurisdiction away from the US. The fight for control of the internet has become critical 2012-08-22T18:30:00Z
Everton are also trying to hijack Liverpool's attempts to prise Adam Johnson from City. Football transfer rumours: Nuri Sahin to Liverpool? 2012-08-14T08:19:14Z
In an effort to boost falling profit margins in the west, and to prise open more profitable markets elsewhere, European pharmaceutical companies are also chipping away at India's judicial system. Pharmaceutical companies putting health of world's poor at risk 2012-07-26T06:00:00Z
Martin O'Neill, however, has taken this as his cue to try to prise James Collins from Villa Park. Football transfer rumours: Daniel Agger to Barcelona? 2012-07-18T08:06:03Z
It prised its way each morning like a chisel through the crack between Jane’s flowered bedroom curtains and between the eyelids she squeezed tightly shut in an effort to stay inside her dreams. Tessa Hadley: “An Abduction.” 2012-07-02T04:00:00Z
In other words, there is more to it than just Walcott's ability to prise open defences. Euro 2012: England's Theo Walcott is no longer a wallflower 2012-06-16T20:31:47Z
Add to that their mentality, as serial champions, and it may need something special to prise their grip from the trophy. Euro 2012: Spain remain the team to beat on the road to Kiev 2012-06-07T17:49:21Z
Not that anyone put in anything less than a shift and failed to play for the team, but against better opponents in a competitive game, the opponent's defence will need to be prised open somehow. Why Roy Hodgson's England midfield didn't work against Norway 2012-05-27T21:01:01Z
If they can prise away Greece, they will know they can prise away others. Commons statement on 'no fault dismissal' plans: Politics live blog 2012-05-21T07:59:11Z
A few months ago re­searchers systematically quantified Roach’s observation and offered a sur­prising explanation. Spanish Is Faster Than English, But Mandarin Is Slow 2012-04-15T14:15:00.197Z
In order to play his Bishop to K 3, which he cannot do now, because the Kt P would be en prise. Hoyle's Games Modernized 2012-04-15T02:00:05.927Z
With a series of smart taps of the hammer, he drove in the chisel in several places under the lid, which he then proceeded to prise open. Submarine U93 2012-04-07T02:00:34.693Z
Since Guido will not credit the truth, she gives him the lie he asks for: "Il m'a prise," she cries out. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z
There are signs that Mr Slim’s grip on Mexican telephones is being prised open. Carlos Slim: Let Mexico?s moguls battle 2012-02-02T16:03:13Z
Caston ran the blade of the knife along to the lock and turned it, prising up the lid. The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z
En prise.—A piece or pawn is en prise if so placed as to be liable to be taken by any other. Hoyle's Games Modernized 2012-04-15T02:00:05.927Z
The four negroes were down: they had shown no fight; and already Haroun had begun with a great knife to prise open the coffin-shaped box. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z
"Think you was goin' to prising, 'stead of to a lord's castle, one would, judgin' by your face," Mrs. Hunt exclaimed. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z
I saw you prise out the jewel from the image of the god—with your short bloody spear. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z
When the gale died away, Slater must have prised open the lid of the chest to bloat over its contents, only to find a load of stones within. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z
They found plenty of small shellfish clinging fast to the rocks on the shore, and they prised these up with their knives, and provided themselves with a number of the little molluscs. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z
“They meant to overawe us by their fine manners and their grandeur; they meant to make you lâcher prise.” Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z
"Well, I can't in here——" I carried the boxes out into our tiny verandah-roofed yard, and there prised the lids off. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z
I do not mean that we had never seen levers before, but we might never have thought of them unless Billy had prised up the rock after that crab. Palm Tree Island 2011-09-21T02:00:31.730Z
Wenger's team can normally be relied upon, at least, to prise opponents apart, to create chances, but their shortcomings in attack had plagued them upon their arrival in northern Italy. Wojciech Szecesny ensures Arsenal do not need a helping hand 2011-08-24T21:09:02Z
The second half was similarly sporadic, and neither side possessed the ball sufficiently to prise the other apart. Fulham 0-0 Aston Villa 2011-08-13T16:13:30Z
Other counties are keen on prising him away but the Durham director of cricket, Geoff Cook, expects a new contract being signed soon. Dimitri Mascarenhas keeps Hampshire alive against Durham 2011-08-12T20:07:58Z
United otherwise have surprisingly few players with the ability to prise open opposition defences, especially now Ryan Giggs is heading towards his 38th birthday and has to be used more sparingly. Premier League preview No10: Manchester United 2011-08-05T08:34:14Z
Can they turn all that drive, ambition, hard spending and unrelenting momentum into something more serious and, finger by finger, prise Sir Alex Ferguson's grip off the Premier League trophy? Premier League preview No 9: Manchester City 2011-08-04T11:28:08Z
With Arsenal refusing to budge on their £40m valuation of , the Telegraph reports that Barcelona will once again offer less than that amount in the hope of prising the midfielder away from the Emirates Stadium. Football transfer rumours: Joey Barton to Tottenham? 2011-08-03T08:22:33Z
They may not prise him away from Spurs – although one would guess that eventually they will – but there's no need to tell the world what is required, just let your money do the talking. Steve Kean's Blackburn recruitment drive needs action, not words 2011-07-27T11:37:00Z
It is almost six months into the Spaniard's career as a Chelsea player but, still, the watching world seeks evidence that prising him from Liverpool constitutes a coup. Fernando Torres at pains to turn torrid time into triumph for Chelsea 2011-07-26T21:01:02Z
But, if Chelsea inevitably dominated possession, they laboured to prise apart a Malaysian XI devoid of the regulars to play in Singapore on Saturday. Malaysian XI 0-1 Chelsea 2011-07-21T15:27:11Z
Those at the top still crave a player capable of prising opponents apart. Why elite clubs are in a desperate hunt for rare midfield magicians 2011-07-07T20:09:19Z
With the point of his assegai he prised up the stone and then started back, for there was a yawning pit disclosed, out of which came a rush of damp and sickly air. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z
I leapt ashore, seized a handspike, got it under the end of the stick, and prised it up quite clear of him. A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado 2011-07-03T02:00:07.507Z
"I am Isabella, the queen," she said, prising, without any further suspicion of danger; "and thou art a messenger from Colon, the Genoese?" Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z
Or a stout young stem of oak or chestnut is used for a lever, passing a chain under the stump and over the middle of the bar and prising upwards with the lever. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z
That taking of prises, by the way, was a standing cause of quarrel between the burghers of Hull and Beverley. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z
There was a deadly certainty about his system that gave rise to the saying “Place assi�g�e, place prise.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z
She owned frankly that she had brought herself to believe that the prise of wealth was worth every sacrifice; that heart, and affection, and feeling were all cheap in comparison with boundless affluence. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z
When you wake up the next morning and prise your face off the keyboard, you open one eye and discover what carnage you wreaked. Live - FA Cup football 2011-03-02T18:40:41Z
He prises de cover off and dat box am full of de gold coins, fives and tens and twenties, gold money, a whole bushel in dat box. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 2011-02-25T03:01:02.913Z
The merchants, wise in their generation, tried to save their casks by discharging the cargoes into smaller vessels before entering the port; but the coroners detected the evasion, and took their prises all the same. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z
Might squeeze through under the lowermost one if it could be prised up. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z
At 7am yesterday he was back at the ground "trying to prise that ball out of the goal". Bournemouth blossom after Lee Bradbury's switch bears fruit 2011-02-07T07:01:03Z
Electrons prised from those ions make a similar journey, but do so in an external circuit, usually through a wire. Solid-state batteries: The power of the press 2011-01-27T10:58:13Z
Johnson's waspish energy was key to prising Stoke apart. Andy Johnson shines again as a revitalised Fulham dazzle a dull Stoke 2011-01-24T07:01:02Z
Since the device sports Windows 7 it's aimed at users who like the concept of a tablet but can't prise themselves away from a physical keyboard. Behold CES's iPad Killers (Possibly) 2011-01-13T17:36:14Z
For perhaps half a minute he stood his ground, contenting himself by prising the lurcher's jaws apart. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z
Mr Ashley grabs a pot of glue and a brush, and sets about trying to reaffix the planks gently prised off his stall. The Fiver 2010-12-07T16:34:00Z
Time and again they have prised open the lid of their coffin. London Irish 23-17 Munster 2010-10-10T23:06:00Z
Whether Ricardo Fuller, an unused substitute here, remains an option for Pulis to employ given apparent interest from Sunderland to prise him away will become clear over the next week. Andy Johnson shines again as a revitalised Fulham dazzle a dull Stoke 2011-01-24T07:01:02Z
The gulf in class was evident but it was incumbent on Ireland to use it to prise their aggressive and defensive-minded opponents apart. Republic of Ireland 3-1 Andorra 2010-09-07T21:09:00Z
That emotion, though, rarely triggers the composure needed to prise open teams. Lithuania 0-0 Scotland 2010-09-03T20:49:00Z
This year the European Union prised open Europe's market for international passenger rail, touting a greener, more competitive future. UK route offers fast-track into European rail boom 2010-08-31T11:40:00Z
“The chairman’s grip on the money is more impressive than a top gymnast doing a high-bar routine,” he said, “and I’m trying to prise those fingers open to deal deals he’s probably not comfortable with.” Global Soccer: After Off-Season of Transfers, Premier League Makes a Rich Start 2010-08-15T21:48:00Z
And I'm trying to prise those fingers open to do deals he is probably not comfortable with. Ian Holloway fastens his seatbelt for Blackpool's big dipper debut 2010-08-13T21:00:00Z
Philadelphia went close to taking the lead several times as United's defence was easily prised apart but, with 14 minutes remaining, they undermined a resilient performance with one misplaced pass in midfield. Philadelphia Union 0-1 Manchester United 2010-07-22T01:43:00Z
Spain's Andrés Iniesta left the field after 76 minutes frustrated at his team's inability to prise open an obdurate Switzerland defence. Richard Williams: The Swiss killed Bambi 2010-06-17T11:43:00Z
There's a great scene showing them in a tunnel beneath King Arthur's stone, holding on to the blade of the sword as the young legend tries to prise it out. E3 2010: Ubisoft reveals Michael Jackson dance game ? and more 2010-06-15T16:14:00Z
Rescuers continued to prise open mangled train coaches on Saturday to remove more bodies from the wreckage. Indian police hunt Maoists after deadly train crash 2010-05-29T13:48:00Z
That must arguably have been Capello's biggest disappointment in a sloppy display where possession was dominated by Mexico and alarming space was prised out between England's rearguard and defensive midfield line. Gareth Barry's ankle injury is key World Cup worry for Fabio Capello 2010-05-25T22:00:00Z
But "despite that we couldn't prise a single door open", she said. British film industry will not fund women, say female directors 2010-05-16T21:55:00Z
This had been Chelsea's great opportunity, the chance to prise open a lead over United that, at this advanced stage of the season, might yet prove unbridgeable. Chelsea 1-0 Bolton 2010-04-13T21:02:00Z
But for me, my iPad is like a gun lobbyist's rifle: the only way you will take it from me is to prise it from my cold, dead hands. Apple's iPad: The Mothership Prepares for Launch 2010-04-01T08:40:00Z
Moore won that battle and his position as retained rider for Sir Michael Stoute explains why he is 1‑2 to retain his title, while Fallon is 7‑2 to prise it from him. Double win gets Dettori off the mark 2010-03-31T23:10:00Z
Ljubicic raised his game after conceding an early break in the second, clubbing three aces in a row to save two match points at 5-2, then prising a break-back point in the following game. 2010-01-14T08:00:00Z
The black-back had just at that instant managed to prise its partner’s head off, and was flailing it about. 2010-01-25T05:00:00Z
There was a stout padlock fastening the door, but Mr. Macrae quickly prised this off, and tore the door open. Ti-Ti-Pu A Boy of Red River
Hitherto the king's prerogative of levying money by name of tallage or prise from his towns and tenants in demesne had passed unquestioned. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3
She had her golf clubs with her, and essayed to prise open the lock with her driving iron, but the heavy bolt resisted all her efforts. A Traitor's Wooing
After prising open one of the boxes, many rounds of German rifle-cartridges were revealed. Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England
My mother is �prise—oh, quite taken with Miss Margaret, and now, I think, begins a little to understand this household, so new and so wonderful to me and to her. The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington
Jack took a hasty view through one of the loopholes with his glasses, and then proceeded to prise up the slabs from the kitchen floor. With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War
"It is neither, Madam," said the Vancouver editor who was helping to prise up the wheel. Seeds of Pine
With the timbers held in place, the carpenters split up to small parties and stand by to set a further locking strain by prise of block and wedge. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war
Therefore a long iron bar was procured from somewhere, and two policemen working with it soon prised the door from its hinges. Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England
He stoops and prises up the heavy square of wood. In the Brooding Wild
Soon after, the sluice was prised up, and the pent-up water rushed into the peak. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea
Leaving the knight en prise, followed by 9. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago"
Now, your help, Mr. Hayes—one, two, three; we can prise it apart between us.' Miss Cayley's Adventures
This Day," writes How on the 30th of December, "we paraded and had our guns took from us By the Major to prise them. The Siege of Boston
He gave over the effort to prise the teeth apart, and put all his might into a frenzied pull. Heart of the Blue Ridge
I'm glad," he said, "for it wasn't 'prised any more. Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm
A pawn or piece is en prise when one of the enemy’s men can capture it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago"
I prised it apart and peered about inside it. Miss Cayley's Adventures
I had resided with this amiable family nearly a month, when one of the servants who had been to Gueret entered nearly out of breath to say that, “La belle France était prise!” A Sailor of King George
Through the high windows, which by his orders had been prised open, for it was intensely hot, he could hear what seemed an unwonted stir outside. Studies in love and in terror
Then without much difficulty they prised up one of the thick planks with which the hut was roofed. Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia
Knobs of iron on the cheeks of a gun-carriage to keep the handspike from slipping when prising up the breech. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc.
Tremulous and half dead, I prised myself over the edge with my hands, and knelt once more on the hill beside Elsie. Miss Cayley's Adventures
Aubrey's small tools were wholly inadequate to their task, and many were the cuts and bruises his inexperienced hands received before he at length succeeded in prising the stubborn plank. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls
I should, perhaps, be enabled to prise off one of the boards, and this would save me the long, wearisome task of cutting it crossways. The Boy Tar
"It's one of those tins you prise up," said Marjorie jauntily. A Patriotic Schoolgirl
A True Coppie of the paper written to the Capt and Company of the dutch prise—20th of the 5th mo. Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents
He took Pinto's knife from his hand and prised one of the discs loose. Jack O' Judgment
There was also a locker in the stern-sheets which was locked, and on David prising it open with his clasp knife, it was found to contain some fishing-line and hooks. Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek
A posse of National Guards had made a search at her house, had turned out the drawers of her cabinets, prised up boards in her floor, thrust their bayonets into her mattresses. The Gods are Athirst
You've to go through this arrow point and then the thing prises up. A Patriotic Schoolgirl
The Doctor had prised off the board, and there on the wall an ominous red stain showed dull in the candlelight. No Man's Land
They sat down close to where I lay, and prising out the bung, filled the liquor into their tin cups, and commenced imbibing. The Scalp Hunters
When Moorehead recovered consciousness he found a bar and prised off some of the corrugated iron near the bodies. Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police
One of the great stones was loose; and he prised it out, to see what might lie behind it. For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem
We soon prised out the other half of the link. Twice Lost
An axe was used to prise it open. Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler
The only weapon he could discover was the leg of a stool, which having wrenched off, he managed with it to prise open the door. The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley
“Come, come, unlock the door, or we must force it open,” said the sergeant, making as if he was about to prise it open with his bayonet. From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure
She goes hard, but theer’s a steel bar ’long wi’ her as you can prise down the spring till she’s set. Patience Wins War in the Works
“Nix for the Spider!” hissed Gurth, prising a hockey-stick against the handle of the door the while he gazed with elaborate calm at a poster on the station wall. Etheldreda the Ready A School Story
By its means he prised up the spar, while I as gently as I could dragged out the man by the shoulders. Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler
They raked out his fire, and prised up a loose board in the floor. The Cock-House at Fellsgarth
Vashti prised at a loose stone from the wall with the point of her sunshade. Major Vigoureux
With the point of nurse's scissors we prised the viands from the platters. The Magic City
We can prise that open, or break it. The Adventures of Harry Revel
"If you cannot find a plank, set half a dozen men to prise up a couple from the floor." Under Wellington's Command A Tale of the Peninsular War
Aunt Sarah is going to exibision day to see me get my prise. 'Sequil' Or Things Whitch Aint Finished in the First
Here at his feet on a cushion of wild thyme lay the stone she had prised out absently, while she spoke, with the point of her sunshade. Major Vigoureux
Already the preventive men on board the luggers—having been rash enough to prise open some half a dozen casks—had dropped overboard and were wading ashore, coughing and spitting as they came. The Mayor of Troy
By the way you prised at me with that knife o' yours. The Adventures of Harry Revel
When I went aft to find out if one of the boats could not be cleared, I noticed that a steering-gear box had been prised open again. The Stowaway Girl
So Pewt he said as long as he give 2 of the prises he was to have the say about whitch beat. 'Sequil' Or Things Whitch Aint Finished in the First
Well, we must look about today, and get a couple of bits of iron that we can use as a prise. Both Sides the Border A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower
At last he wedged the strong blade of his hatchet between the sash of the window and the frame and prised inward, steadily and cautiously. The Harbor Master
But now I took it in my fingers again and prised the edges a little wider. Poison Island
Then, replacing the crucifix in his breast, he entered the adjoining room, prised up a stone from the floor, and drew forth a leathern bag full of gold. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine
En Prise.—When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. The Blue Book of Chess Teaching the Rudiments of the Game, and Giving an Analysis of All the Recognized Openings
With a lens and a delicate needle, he began to peer and prise in it; and anon, fixing the lens in his eye, reached out for his hand-lamp. Corporal Sam and Other Stories
For more than an hour they prised and levered and strained. The Ship of Stars
Bertric took them, and prised away the upper end of the midmost timber without any trouble. A Sea Queen's Sailing
She led him to the miller’s room, showed him the massive coffer in which lay her master’s wealth, and gave him a piece of iron wherewith to prise it open. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine
To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured. The Blue Book of Chess Teaching the Rudiments of the Game, and Giving an Analysis of All the Recognized Openings
Then I pulled a staple from the wall, and with the point of it prised out one of the jewels, an amethyst. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756
Hard work it was with pick and crowbar to prise up the ice-locked earth and to get poor Joe that depth which the frozen clay would seem to grudge him. The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America
For some reason, he made his presence known, and walked with Sir Alan to the lawn outside the window, still retaining in his hand the small knife used to prise open the lock. The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate
Down in the lazarette Jacka had scarcely finished prising the cork out of his bottle of Hollands when he heard the bang of a gun. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
In chess, this is attempted by the first player putting a Pawn en prise of the enemy early in the game, by which he is enabled more rapidly and effectually to develope his superior Pieces. The Blue Book of Chess Teaching the Rudiments of the Game, and Giving an Analysis of All the Recognized Openings
Stokoe stole quietly downstairs, to find that some one outside was busy with the point of a knife trying gently to prise back the great oaken bolt which barred his door. Stories of the Border Marches
It was a matter of but a few seconds to prise it open. At a Winter's Fire
Berkley, diplomatically approving the landscape before us, would not get angry, would not be insulted, and offered no prise to my difficult temper. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873
He cannot prise open a man's heart with a crowbar, as it were, and force Himself inside. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)
Before the man returns, let us seize our prise. The Son of Clemenceau
They had to prise me off the greens when it got too dark to see, and then we went back to the house. A Diversity of Creatures
This they soon reached, and, prising frantically with crowbars, flaked off and rolled away half-ton blocks of the superincumbent mass. At a Winter's Fire
The man slipped the end of his stick under the sash and prised it up quietly. The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales
The few passengers filed into the customs room, where a corps of skilled mechanics prised open the contents of bags and trunks. The Land of Deepening Shadow Germany-at-War
He passed his stick to her, supposing that she meant in some way to prise the window open. True Tilda
On the day of the prise d'armes three old peasants happened to be in a field on the other side of the route nationale, which skirts the big plain on the plateau. On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes
She put her king in prise and Monsieur Franklin promptly took it! Calvert of Strathore
Edward's statute binds the king never to take any of these "aids, tasks, and prises" in future, save by the common assent of the realm. Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins
With a menacing look at the turnkey he crawled upon the hearth, and, peering up the chimney, struck and prised at its sides with the crowbar, and worked at the iron grating across it. A Tale of Two Cities
Johnny Walker Black was the expected gift over which each recipient would feign total sur- prise. Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel
I shut the outer door, prised up the trap, and dropped into the vault, which had been floored roughly with green bricks. Prester John
He proceeded to prise open the lid of his watch with the knife he had used to cut his tobacco, and, as he examined the works, he turned the back of the case towards me. Mr. Standfast
Hitherto the king's prerogative of levying money by name of tallage or prise, from his towns and tenants in demesne, had passed unquestioned. Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins
After some trouble I got the thing prised open, and catching the edges of the hole with my fingers raised my body and got my knees on the edge. Greenmantle
By this time he was scratting in the dirt to prise it up. Rewards and Fairies
Alas, do you that idle prise expect,   To set first foot this conquered wall above? Jerusalem Delivered
"They meant to overawe us by their fine manners and their grandeur, and to make you lacher prise." An International Episode
The distance to be traversed before the attackers are aux prises with the defenders is about one hundred and fifty yards. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
This way and that, and every way at once, he was writhing and pushing and prising and dragging. A Rough Shaking
Having removed the screws, the priest descended the steps, which he pushed on one side, and inserting the screwdriver into a crevice, prised the panel outward. The Heavenly Twins
Mr. Coleridge had journeyed to this port, where he rather hoped, than expected to find some conveyance, through the medium of a neutral, that should waft him to the land, "more prised than ever." Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
That night he took his Waterbury, prised open the face with a pocket-knife as if he were opening an oyster, put the minute hand on exactly half an hour, and retired to bed satisfied. The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories
If Bicky's people hadn't left him anything and he depended on what he could prise out of the old duke, he was in a pretty bad way. My Man Jeeves
If I choose to lock my lips, Jesus Christ does not prise open my clenched teeth to put the bread of life into my unwilling mouth. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV
Come, force the gates with crowbars, prise them apart! Lysistrata
The worthy reformer, therefore, prised open the sacred shrine and found within it absolutely nothing whatsoever. On Something
Directly the valves were prised apart the pearl fell into my hand. Tropic Days
With his chisel he had but little difficulty in prising open the casement. A March on London
That the Academical crown, encircling the brow of a Canadian poet, ought to be as much prised by Canada as it must be dear to its gifted son, the Laureate of the French Academy. Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present
Philip stepped forward and prised off the lid triumphantly. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 15, 1919
Men, amounting to several, will be prised loose from comfortable surroundings and condemned to get on with it for the term of their unnatural lives. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 17, 1917
Soon I had the mortar out of the joints, and the brick loose enough to prise it forward, by putting the edge of the hammer in the crack. Moonfleet
All that which Athens ever brought forth wise, All that which Afrike ever brought forth strange, All that which Asie ever had of prise, Was here to see. The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5
I would have thee more familiar, good Cornutus; Nero doth prise desert and more esteemes Them that in knowledge second him, then power. A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1
"You can't come in," said a little weak voice, when Mr. Mordacks, having knocked in vain, began to prise open the cottage door. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale
What would you do if you woke up in the dark and found a strong-armed roughneck prising you out of bed as if you were a clam? The Little Nugget
Using the leverage thus obtained, I attempted to prise it open. The Beetle
Beat in speling today. old Francis is a going to give a prise tomorrow. i told father i was pretty sure to get it and he said it will be the first one. The Real Diary of a Real Boy
The soldiers bent their strength against the parapet, while some of the townspeople, thrusting their pikes into the rotten mortar between the stones, prised them up with all their strength. The Lion of the North A tale of the times of Gustavus Adolphus
In a matter of seconds, the front door frame had been cracked open, prising the door away from its lock. Underground
We strained, we tugged, we prised with levers, but unavailingly, the boat seemed as if she had taken root there and would not budge an inch. Australian Search Party
Together we prised it out of its place,—Lessingham standing by and watching us the while. The Beetle
School closed today and we voted for prises. The Real Diary of a Real Boy
Then thirty-six picked bullocks planted their feet and prised, and a hundred and seventy feet of bar chain stretched tense and rigid from the leaders' yoke to the pole-cap. Such Is Life
For Florence was vulgar; Florence was a common flirt who would not, at the last, lacher prise; and Florence was an unstoppable talker. The Good Soldier
Ossip prised himself up from the ground with his elbow, and said hurriedly: "It was I that contrived the idea of the thing, your Excellency; but, pray let me off in honour of the festival." Through Russia
But in this, as in all speculative enter- prises, the prizes have been few and the blanks many. Everybody's Guide to Money Matters: with a description of the various investments chiefly dealt in on the stock exchange, and the mode of dealing therein
But now, sir, for your Jewels that I have, What do you say? will you take my prise? Cromwell
They entered the cabin, and there was Huish on his knees prising open a case of champagne. The Ebb-Tide
I be pareld most of prise,I ride after the wild fee. Grass of Parnassus
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