(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pry

(a.) Inspecting closely or impertinently.

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• That prying scoundrel, Hartright, may come back without my knowing it, and may make use of her to-morrow---- Not he, Percival! 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• If we are to be prying and spying into all the dismals of life, we should have no heart to anything. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
• Prying, and peeping, and listening are the natural occupations of people situated as we are. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• An unutterable suspicion that his mind is prying into mine overcomes me at these times, and it overcame me now. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I am sick of all this poking and prying. 戴維·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• I caught it, and prying its bill open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger could reach. 阿瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
• You have been prying into my private affairs. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The man pushes down with a force of 100 pounds, but with that amount succeeds in prying up the 600-pound bowlder. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
• Had he been as acute as he was meddling, as profound as he was prying, he might have found that in Sir Philip's face whereby to correct his inference. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Are we to suppose from this curiosity and prying into dictionaries, could our heroine suppose that Mr. Crawley was interested in her? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• He put some eggs in a frying pan, and stood pensively prying slabs of meat from between his teeth with a fork. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• But thou hast a hundred zecchins with thee in that bag, said Isaac, prying under Gurth's cloak, it is a heavy one. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• After luncheon, when Grace Stepney's prying eyes had been removed, Lily asked for a word with her aunt. 伊迪絲·華頓. 快樂之家.

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