"Prise" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... noble friend, I would I might haue quit This age of these, and that I might haue writ, Before all other, how much the braue pen, Had here bin honoured of the English men; Goodnesse and knowledge, held by them in prise, How hatefull to them Ignorance and vice; But it falls out the contrary is true, And so my Ieffreyes ...
— Minor Poems of Michael Drayton • Michael Drayton
... eaten and corroded. It was a matter of but a few seconds to prise it open. The lid fell back on the table with ...
— At a Winter's Fire • Bernard Edward J. Capes
... Esprit," is the chief masterpiece); twelve epistles (that to Racine being pre-eminent); the literary-didactic poem, L'Art Poetique; a heroi-comical epic, Le Lutrin; miscellaneous shorter poems (among which may be noted the admirable epitaph on Arnauld, and an unhappy ode, Sur la Prise de Namur, 1693); and various critical studies in prose, his Lucianic dialogue Les Heros de Roman, satirising the extravagant novels not yet dismissed to oblivion, and his somewhat truculent Reflexions sur Longin being specially ...
— A History of French Literature - Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. • Edward Dowden
... Chantraine; —There was, it is true, nothing in all this which could establish the fact of wooing, but every thing which should convince an old offender like myself that the young lady was "en prise," and that I myself —despite my really strong attachment ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete • Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
... scalps had been for ages the absorbing business and favorite recreation of all these Western tribes. At or near the expansion of the Mississippi called Lake Pepin, the voyagers found a fort called Fort Perrot, after its builder; [Footnote: Penecaut, Journal. Proces-verbal de la Prise de Possession du Pays des Nadouessioux, etc., par Nicolas Perrot, 1689. Fort Perrot seems to have been built in 1685, and to have stood near the outlet of the lake, probably on the west side. Perrot afterwards built ...
— A Half-Century of Conflict, Volume II • Francis Parkman
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