Stephen de Abindon, our butler, our right prise of wines one tun of wine before the mast and one tun of wine behind the mast, at our will, he paying to the merchants from whom he should receive those wines in our name 20s.
And we will, and for us and our heirs we grant that no exaction, prise or prest or any other charge be in any wise imposed on the persons of the merchants aforesaid, their merchandise or goods, against the form expressed and granted above.
Crown to payments for the privilege of commercial intercourse by way of prise or custom; and in the second place the continuous efforts of mediaeval governments to secure a good and easy currency (Nos.
Footnote 246: The prise of wines was the royal right, limited at least from the time of Edward I.
She had the soggiest kind uh jelly roll t' the su'prise on Mary last winter.
Highly as he was supported, the wrath of the clergy prevailed; and a writ of prise de corps was issued for his apprehension.
On one occasion he secured a large screw-driver and attempted to prise open the door.
Bot gyff he had assayit it, Than all perquer he suld it wyt; And suld think fredome mar to prise Than all the gold in warld that is.
Your prise d'armes must hurt you, I think, if you were not victorious.
I knowed what that meant in a second, Mr Hawkesley; so I whips out my knife, sings out to Ned to prise open the other two doors, and cuts off the live end of the fuze at once, and just in time.
Carol hasn't an inkling of an idea, and we want to s'prise her.
And how the Duch took a prise at sea, a junk laden with ebony, the Emperour geving them leave to make a good prise both of schipp and goods.
And we made prise for tymber with Skidayon Dono, and paid hym 50 tais plate bars in hand, as followeth:-- ta.
And, if the Sea-god send free sail, the fruitful Phthian shores Within three days we shall attain, where I have store of prise Left, when with prejudice I came to these indignities.
I took them as my prise From those false Trojans I have slain.
His bright and sparkling eyes Look'd through the body of his foe, and sought through all that prise The next way to his thirsted life.
Ye see all I lose mine Forc'd by another, see as well some other may resign His prise to me.
But if we now shall add Force to his corse, and spoil his arms, a prise may more be had Of many great ones, that for him will put on to the death.
Pursue, and use your swiftest speed, that we may take for prise The shield of old Neleides, which fame lifts to the skies, Ev'n to the handles telling it to be of massy gold.
To elevate by prise or estimation; to magnify; to extol; to glorify.
Variation; prise fixed with relation to a standard; cost; charge; as, high or low rates of transportation.
In 1671 the white-haired missionary was at the solemn "prise de possession" at Sault Ste.
At the same time as they never appear to have made a formal claim or took a formal "prise de possession" for France, it is not to be wondered that historians will continue to give the credit to the already accredited discoverers.
In 1811 the King of Westphalia commissioned his first two pictures: the Prise du camp retranché de Galatz and the Prise de Breslau.
Bataille de Montmirail, of the Prise de Constantine, of the Déroute de la Smala?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
