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"I might have prigged this box of figs," the damsel said good-naturedly, "and you'd never have turned round."

From Burlesques by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Now you'll grant it's more probable, Bill—as a man of the world, if you please— That all these should have prigged from myself than that I should have prigged from all these.

From The Heptalogia by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

I have prigged the whole thing from the last Victorian Edition—with some slight variations….

From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)