1 I do not want to pry into other men's concerns.
2 From Estella she looked at me, with a searching glance that seemed to pry into my heart and probe its wounds.
3 So he didn't pry into my pockets, but only felt outside with his hands, and said it was all right.
4 Cranly interrupted himself for an instant, and then said: I don't want to pry into your family affairs.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 5 They pried off the lid with their shovels, got out the body and dumped it rudely on the ground.
6 So Tom pried his mouth open and poured down the Pain-killer.
7 She did not see that Rhett had pried open the prison of her widowhood and set her free to queen it over unmarried girls when her days as a belle should have been long past.
8 He pried her fist open inexorably and stared at it, picked up her other hand and held them both together silently, looking down at them.
9 Fauchelevent, hardly able to draw his breath for trembling, seized his cold chisel and his hammer, and pried up the coffin lid.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI... 10 A part of every day she spent at the mill, prying into everything, doing her best to check the thievery she felt sure was going on.
11 I'm sorry I was rude but you deserved it for prying.
12 After luncheon, when Grace Stepney's prying eyes had been removed, Lily asked for a word with her aunt.
13 But he had his mother's genius for trusting, her disdain for prying, her sure integrity.
14 She could rebel against the town's prying now that she had something, however indistinct, for which to rebel.
15 At intervals, he ran close up to the revolving border of the confusion, and prying into the heart of it with his pike, sought to prick out the object of his resentment.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.