From that hour there was a bloodhound upon Howard Murpoint's track, a ferret ever worming andprying and nosing into his business.
We shall get into a compartment--there is one that still remains unlighted, it will be the best for our purpose; there will be no chance of a prying face appearing at the window.
The old fellow is a bit eccentric, and doesn't care for people pryingall over his house.
From thatprying and all-powerful God of Chance none, great or small, escaped.
So he kept it in his strongbox, where he thought it safe from prying eyes.
Once, when emptying out a cup at the garden-door, she saw a mark of blood on the steps, but Mr. Philip came up and swore at her for a prying fool.
There, at all events, he felt comparatively safe from prying eyes, and it was there in a secluded corner that he poured his tale of woe into his friend's astonished ears.
As far as I can make out from your disjointed harangue, your excuse for prying into my affairs is that by doing so you are protecting a helpless woman from further ill-treatment.
As the grey and misty twilight brightened into the glowing and happy morn, there were two men prying about and around the otherwise deserted cavern of the Gull's Nest Crag.
These sympathizing willows, too, exclude even theprying eye of curiosity.
The return of Mr. Van Benthuysen, one of your electors, furnishes me a confidential opportunity of writing this much to you, which I should not have ventured through the postoffice at this prying season.
DEAR SIR, "Mrs. Brown's departure for Virginia enables me to write confidentially what I would not have ventured by the post at this prying season.
And I handed him a flask of Hocheimer of eight florins, right glad to get rid of his presence and escape further scrutiny from his prying glances.
There she sat, slowly making the round of the circus, while the stranger walked at her side, to all seeming conversing as though no busy and prying multitude stood watching and observing them.
I took especial care in my dialogue to keep this prying fellow outside the room, and to interpose in every attempt that he made to obtain a peep within.
My conscience, on the shallow pretext of being greatly interested about me, was simply pryingand inquisitive.
I feel that if I were a clerk in a bank, I 'd spend the day prying into every one's account, and learning the exact state of his balance-sheet.
So I sat thinking of the six box cords tied together and hidden away in the bottom drawer, underneath my green silk, and tightly locked up to keep them from prying eyes.
This would tend to conceal them from theprying eyes of the Martians.
Never before have I seen my daddy play the prying duenna.
He ran back with a shovel and covered the bell with sand; the haggled bush above it would be a sufficient guide for him and no significant landmark for the possible prying stranger.
When dressed she drew a letter from a secret casket with manifold precautions as though she were surrounded with prying eyes, and, placing it in her reticule, hastened forth to seek the little lonely disused churchyard by the shore.
With this glorious Intention he travelled into Foreign Nations in an obscure Manner, above receiving little Honours where he sojourned, but prying into what was of more Consequence, their Arts of Peace and of War.
Prying about with busy eyes and fingers, he at length came upon a spring, on pressing which, a secret drawer flew from its hiding-place.
He did not choose to be pumped by the Interviewer, who would show him up in the sensational columns of his prying newspaper.
Thanks to the prying of the New York reporters I have had to sail on this ship in my own name.
Fortunately I managed to put young Hilden out of the way, at least for a time, so that we shall be free of hisprying and peeping and officiousness when you call to-day.
I left the room by the veranda door, because he bade me do so, to avoid what he termed 'the prying of servants.
I owe you an apology for trespassing upon your time, and prying into the mysteries of your portfolio; but the beauty of your sketch, and its startling resemblance to one in whom I have long felt an interest, must plead my pardon.
Go yourself; I doesn't budge on no sech bizness as prying and spying amongst the sperrits.
Prying up a corner of the box, he thrust in a hand.
After looking at it a long time next day, without prying off the lock and peeking inside, she had decided that she must, if possible, have it for her very own.
That he was not conscious of prying eyes was at once apparent, for, after a moment, partially straightening up, he switched on a powerful lamp, thus sending a sharp pencil of illumination through the clouds that hung over the city.
Even the mother-in-law, prying as she was, was unable to solve the mystery.
She said, it could not possibly be lost; entreated her to search her escritoir, while she herself ran about the room, prying into every corner, with all the symptoms of fear and distraction.
Chauvelin leaned forward across the table and rested his chin in his hands; instinctively Collot too leaned towards him, and both men peered furtively round them as if wondering if prying eyes happened to be lurking round.
Mrs. Ogilvey herself would be the first to approve of any fair means which would save her husband from the probing and prying of the police.
The mayor of La Logerie was innately prying at all times, and on this occasion, as may well be supposed, he was not backward with his questions.
He was all the more surprised because he saw very plainly that the young girl shared the love his prying eyes had detected in the depths of the young baron's heart.
Eager, prying eyes watched him as he began to eat and drink, dreamily at first, almost drowsily.
Secure from prying eyes, Gaston de Stainville threw all reserve from him with a laugh of pride and of joy.
