Example Sentences
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Ay, my father prigged sair to get one fou day in the month, and he said, ‘Syne if I die sudden, there’s thirty chances to one that I gang to heaven, so it’s worth risking.’
From The Little Minister by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
We prigged wi' Tammas no to gang to the manse till we was sure the minister was living.
From The Little Minister by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
I prigged it; Simmy here whipped it into pretty Mary's reticule, which she, I suppose, never looked into till the row came; and you claimed it—a regular merry-go-round, ain't it, eh?
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
"You don't mean to say that old woman prigged it?" asked Hurd.
From The Opal Serpent by Hume, Fergus
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
