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Definition of Pryers
1. pryer [n] - See also: pryer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pryers
Literary usage of Pryers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations by Julian Hawthorne (1909)
"... are pryers, and sheep are put into the world to be sheared." Thus repulsed,
poor Gilbert paid five or six time's its value for his frugal repast, ..."
2. Count Kostia: A Novel by Victor Cherbuliez (1873)
"... are pryers, and sheep are put into the world to be sheared." Thus repulsed,
poor Gilbert paid five or six times its value for his frugal repast, ..."
3. Count Kostia: A Novel by Victor Cherbuliez, Ossian Doolittle Ashley (1873)
"... are pryers, and sheep are put into the world to be sheared." Thus repulsed,
poor Gilbert paid five or six times its value for his frugal repast, ..."
4. Isis Unveiled: A Master-key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1877)
"J He is the type of St. Augustine's God who " prepares hell for pryers into his
mysteries," and insists on trying human reason as well as common sense by ..."
5. American Anthropologist by American Anthropological Association, American Ethnological Society (1892)
"... for the service it renders him in screening his own sacred traditions from
pryers into secrets which the Indian considers as his own and no one's else. ..."
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