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  • Nor were the escorts there to admonish me for asking a rude question of the partying faithful, or to protect the paying customers from the prying media.
  • It makes sense to hide them from prying eyes. Times, Sunday Times
  • To prevent prying eyes from seeing your personal email, consider using encryption software.
  • We hear the blossoming couple also saw each other away from prying eyes this week. The Sun
  • Whatever happened to that unwritten rule about not prying into each others personal lives?
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  • The crew carry umbrellas with which they try to shield the actors from prying camera lenses. Times, Sunday Times
  • The crew carry umbrellas with which they try to shield the actors from prying camera lenses. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is the opposite of grinding out small profits away from prying eyes.
  • An underfloor tray in the rear covers the spare tire and hides valuables from prying eyes.
  • She discouraged impertinent curiosity with frozen silence and there is an uneasy feeling, as one reads, that one is prying into her chosen privacy.
  • Hidden from prying eyes, it was unlikely to be fully taken into account. Times, Sunday Times
  • The fogs were a protection from prying vessels, but the calms proved to be an unmitigated nuisance. Ralph Granger's Fortunes
  • Now he must woo his beloved away from the prying eyes of his fellow club members.
  • Their bills are adapted for removing seeds from cones, and they start at the bottom of a cone and spiral upward, prying open each scale and removing the seeds with their tongues.
  • Conceive the intolerableness, if you are at all sensitive, of being watched by eyes so sharp and prying, so eager to note the least change of expression and to use the conclusions drawn for personal ends that nothing, absolutely nothing, escapes them. The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight
  • A stick for prying clams from the reef, for example, counted as one techno-unit, whereas a bamboo crab trap with a baited lever counted as 16, because it comprised 16 working parts, each a technology in its own right. Why Some Islanders Build Better Crab Traps
  • Karsten Nohl, 28, told The Associated Press this week that he, working with others online and around the world, created a codebook containing how to get past the GSM standard encryption used to keep conversations on more than 3 billion mobile phones safe from prying ears. Guide To Breaking Cell Phone Security REVEALED
  • I'm not prying, "Antimodes explained, seeing a pained expression contort the child's face. The Soulforge
  • As soon as Alex thought it was safe, he took Sara out in the piney woods north of town to a big clearing away from prying eyes where she could practice her flying.
  • I had to learn more without the prying eyes of people who knew me.
  • Garden birds need undergrowth to hide and rest in and nest sites in your large hedge, away from the prying eyes of the magpies.
  • Afterwards it will once again be under lock and key, behind a shatterproof, bulletproof, glass window, away from prying fingers.
  • "Lauren, where are you going?" My mom asked pryingly, just as I was about to leave the door.
  • After all, a fence is not there just to enclose your space and keep out prying eyes. Times, Sunday Times
  • The house was narrow and tall, with no garage, but, like all French town houses, it was well-protected from prying eyes. DOUBLE DECEIT
  • ‘I believe you get the honor of renaming it then,’ Terelf said pryingly, ‘what will you name her?’
  • Farms can also provide outbuildings or barns for work to take place away from prying eyes.
  • An underfloor tray in the rear covers the spare tire and hides valuables from prying eyes.
  • The Restaurant du Soleil, where the marriage feast was held, was an earwiggy hostelry on the outskirts of the town, sheltered from the prying roadway by a screen of green lattice and a series of _tonnelles_, the dusty arbours, each furnished with table and chairs, beloved of The Belovéd Vagabond
  • Some were further guarded from prying eyes by sort of gridirons, politely called balconies, though, since the platform had been forgotten, and only the protecting railings were there hard up against the glass, the name was deceptive. The Good Comrade
  • They are often detected by their foraging taps, bark prying, and drumming.
  • Hiding her tablets in her laptop case should keep them from prying eyes, shouldn't it? The Sun
  • But fear not as the boy wizard is only perfecting a little magic away from the prying eyes of his beastly uncle Vernon.
  • Martha was a capital cook, and little Annie a sharp sentry; it was J. B.'s great dread that we'd arouse suspicion among the local people - for Americans are the nosiest folk on earth, prying into every newcomer's business, trying to get sight of his furnishings and guess how much money he's got (being neighbourly, they call it), and the arrival of six mysterious stalwarts was enough to set the countryside agog. THE NUMBERS
  • Easy fix: In December 2007, the Fed rebranded the discount window into an anonymous program called TAF, where banks could borrow away from prying eyes. Fool.com Headlines
  • She claimed that loutish youths, prying locals and boorish day-trippers were making life intolerable.
  • What else would an innocent Bajoran wish to conceal from prying eyes and clutchy hands but money? REBELS: THE LIBERATED, BOOK III OF III
  • Yet again, he displayed the elusive nature of a Lord Lucan as he succeeded in evading the prying cameras outside Mountjoy.
  • In addition, I'd hear noises resembling someone tugging / prying apart pieces of wood.
  • Prying apart the text, he located discrepancies between the author's conjectural inferences and the evidence actually offered in support of those inferences.
  • In Los Angeles celebrities have found so few refuges from prying lenses that new laws have been brought in to protect them from the paparazzi. Times, Sunday Times
  • The word Halloween, as you may well recall, is derived from two words: "hallow," meaning "to bless" -- and nothing says blessing like a gooey green spook -- and "een," the noise your mouth makes when you're prying the caramel out of your molars. Patricia Draznin: B00! SCARY is in the Dangling Eye of the Beholder
  • It is believed the gangs have targeted Scotland because it has so much rural land which is remote from prying eyes.
  • Not the police, nor the politicians, nor the prying eyes of the security spooks. The Sun
  • Sleeveless tops and short skirts make it impossible to hide from the prying eyes of children.
  • Despite brilliant colouring, orioles are often difficult to see slipping through the foliage where sun, shade and trembling leaves create a broken pattern of black and yellow - perfect for hiding from prying eyes.
  • Such was the fascination of the prying British for Lord Byron's scandalous ménage that one enterprising hotelier started charging guests a fee to peer through a telescope trained on the Villa Diodati. Byron in Paradise
  • Other times, the professional eavesdropper subconsciously shields himself with wire fences, translucent plastic sheeting, and window drapery to deflect prying questions.
  • Paranoid and deeply unlikable curmudgeon that he was, O'Brian had used his shadowy false identity as a screen against the prying eyes of the world.
  • Or I'd say, Oh, no comment, or Mind your business, or Leave me alone and stop prying into my life.
  • These will have to be removed or amended, and God help them if some newspaper gets a photo of someone prying one of those plaques off the wall.
  • You can set up in a blind, behind a tree, in a rosebush, wherever you can get good cover from a turkey's prying eyes. Turkey Hunting Basics
  • In addition, I'd hear noises resembling someone tugging/prying apart pieces of wood.
  • She didn't want to feel like she was prying into Keira's private life by going through her cupboard, but she thought that she'd be doing the girl a favour by cleaning it out.
  • These are things that most Pueblos traditionally keep secret, despite the prying of anthropologists and the occasional indiscretion of informants and writers.
  • Prying off the plastic lid, she took out a small scoop.
  • It pays to keep luxury items away from prying eyes or in the hotel safe. The Sun
  • He can placate all those prying legislators who keep embarrassing MLB with hearings on Capitol Hill.
  • Dinah wanted to scowl back at him, but she held it down, smiling sweetly instead before ascending the stairs to get away from her parents and their prying questions.
  • A neighbor calls the police after hearing the commotion of two individuals prying open a window.
  • Prying off the case reveals a vivid red interior, and the 3.7 V, 1500 mAh rechargeable Li-ion battery, at 31 grams, pops out easily. HTC Evo 4G: What's inside first WiMAX smartphon
  • His attitude was that of a well-bred man reluctant to discuss some family difference with a prying outsider.
  • Jon Stewart took enough interest in the guy to have him stick around for a couple of rounds of "unedited" prying. Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Psychology of Presidential Ambition?
  • When we are struggling, it can feel intrusive when people ask prying questions. Christianity Today
  • Several dainty missives and a lace handkerchief, with a monogram, invited the unscrupulous and prying glance of the inquisitive newsmonger. Under the Rose
  • It's away from prying eyes and gives us a chance to relax. The Sun
  • Details of our judges' individual sentencing records and workloads remain tucked away in official files away from prying eyes.
  • Anthropologist, which means `nasty, nosy, prying, pestiferous busybody". MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
  • When the gremlin is kneeling on the wing prying up the panel you can see the actor's shoes under his gremlin costume. The Twilight Zone: Nightmare At 20,000 Feet 2
  • Their nuclear manipulations will be free from prying eyes.
  • The Guardian accused its competitors of pandering to a voyeur instinct by prying into Blunkett's life.
  • Its mutely inscrutable facade of bald concrete shields the house from the effects of the harsh south sun and deflects prying eyes.
  • There are other sounds, now that the shrill cry of the hyla is stilled -- the cawing of crows beyond the wood, the scratching of a beetle in the crisp leaves, the cheep of a prying chickadee, the tiny chirrup of a cricket in the grass -- remnants of sounds from the summer, and echoes as of single strings left vibrating after the concert is over and the empty hall is closed. The Hills of Hingham
  • You'll be able to do more serious prying with the western pigsticker.
  • Her hands trembled as she lifted the box from its shelf, and she ripped a fingernail in prying the lid up. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
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  • They wanted to build a closed community where they could practise polygamy away from prying eyes.
  • A slum dweller has no door to slam in the face of prying reporters.
  • Is it a hiding place away from the prying eyes of Gestapo agents, or is it equivalent to collaborating with the enemy?
  • I hope you don't think I'm prying, but has your boyfriend ever lived with anyone before?
  • Whilst the battle raged on the topsides and the Spanish captain barked orders to his men, I slipped away with Sancho's key to the forecastle hatch, prying a pistol from the fingers of a dead sailor.
  • And many states have statutes to prevent employers from prying into an employee's private life.
  • Some sought to contradict him, while others tried, unsuccessfully, to ignore his prying.
  • He wrapped himself in a duvet and took himself into the bathroom away from prying eyes. The Sun
  • He has other ways of staying in touch away from prying eyes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Muir retrieved his letters to Carr and had some sections expurgated from them, which he hoped to reserve from the future's prying eyes.
  • Erica looked pryingly and Thomas began to tell her about most of the days events.
  • Curious as Lot's wife, he enjoys prying into other people's secrets and is therefore generally disliked.
  • At the same time, the French media is slowly but surely prying into the private lives of the politicians - slowly but surely exposing more details about what goes on behind the closed doors of the country's rulers.
  • The royal family tried to insulate him from the prying eyes of the media.
  • In Italy, he lives alone in the small village of cobbled streets and prying eyes. Times, Sunday Times
  • But those winds were futile as a device for prying away such an inspissated couple for once they were together this man and woman babbled to each other a mutually pleasurable one word jabberwocky despite the fiercely driven rains, hail, and the flash flood at their feet. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
  • Or, these inseparable couples could be holding on for dear life, dangling just slightly above eye level so we look up at them pryingly, like equally helpless children.
  • We are following him, prying into the inmost privacy of someone else's life.
  • Could prying the sector away from social housing providers help? Times, Sunday Times
  • Using modern-day infomercial creativity, the zipper industry alerted people to problems they didn't know they had -- namely "gaposis," gaping holes between ill-fitting buttons and clasps that exposed drafts and prying eyes to the body underneath. Tove Hermanson: The Secret Sexy Life of Zippers
  • We show you how to keep your pal's prying eyes from your paper… without busting up the friendship.
  • Rob helped me get the boxes into the cab on Jonathan's side, which was obscured from prying eyes. THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
  • She'll think I'm prying into her business, it's not mine.
  • This Orwellian spirit encourages prying into individuals' thoughts and unguarded comments - while diverting attention from the issues that matter in our public life.
  • The crew carry umbrellas with which they try to shield the actors from prying camera lenses. Times, Sunday Times
  • -- Our mutual perturbation did not escape the prying witch; my countenance red, hers pale -- The word begone! maddened to break loose from my impatient tongue. Anna St. Ives
  • She claimed that loutish youths, prying locals and boorish day-trippers were making life intolerable.
  • The micronation made international headlines in 2000 when a company called HavenCo struck a deal with the “royal family” to build a heavily armed offshore data sanctuary to house “sensitive” information anonymously, outside the reaches of governments, lawyers, ex-wives, and other prying eyes. The Pirate’s Dilemma
  • Not for the first time he attempts to personalise the issue by prying into my private affairs.
  • Some men earn their keep by prying into the lives of others, to inform their clients for fee whether those overseen or overheard are criminal, adulterous, employable.
  • We had always stayed out of each others private business, prying only when we deemed it absolutely necessary.
  • After the ceremony lucky guests will be Sailing as they are whisked away to party on a luxury yacht away from prying eyes. The Sun
  • After the ceremony lucky guests will be Sailing as they are whisked away to party on a luxury yacht away from prying eyes. The Sun
  • Yet even so, it quickly became clear why the junta wished to keep out prying eyes.
  • Some think that prying news reports are a necessary evil in a democracy.
  • I knew that I had no right to pry into Brent's life; I wouldn't have wanted him prying into my business after all but I thought of him as a friend and I wanted him to open up to me.
  • She thought she was safe from prying eyes and could do as she wished.
  • To prevent prying eyes, before turning it in and after transferring contents to your new Mac, be sure to run a military style reformat on the had drive, (Three reformats minimum with a boot sector wipe each time). datingjesus Let us all speak verrrry quietly… « Dating Jesus
  • I blessed her for knowing what I wanted and not asking any prying questions.
  • The royal family tried to insulate him from the prying eyes of the media.
  • How do we find out who these people are without prying or condescending? Times, Sunday Times
  • Anyone who's ever killed single-bloodroot seedlings by prying them out of a gravel driveway or murdered baby anchusas by hooking them out of cracks in concrete will understand why there's much to be said for an organized approach to seed-saving.
  • By drawing your curtain there will be no intrusion or prying eyes into your movement in the house.
  • This spirit encourages prying into individuals' thoughts and unguarded comments - while diverting attention from the issues that matter in our public life.
  • Their booth was separate, at least fifteen feet from any prying neighboring tables. NIMITZ CLASS
  • He never tired of asking prying questions: in what manner were they attracted to each other; how did they behave?
  • It has emerged that the hotel was one of the establishments the prince favoured when he wanted to enjoy a quiet drink away from his security guards and the prying eyes of tourists.
  • When entering your PIN, use your free hand and your body to shield the number from prying eyes or hidden cameras. Times, Sunday Times
  • Although the two of them were very good friends, they usually hesitated long and hard over prying into one another's affairs, at least until they were given an invitation to do so.
  • It may cost an extra 100, but it keeps them away from prying lenses. Times, Sunday Times
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  • Jake didn't want to go, remembering the outcome of last time he had to follow Geoffrey: a strange woman prying into his personal life.
  • The general had no business prying into her personal life.
  • Naturally, Helen was curious about this, but her rule against off-duty prying was an effective inhibitor. DEATH OF A NYMPH
  • To prevent prying eyes from seeing your personal email, consider using encryption software.
  • I'm sick of you prying into my personal life!
  • There is a mean curiosity, as of a child opening a forbidden door, or a servant prying into her master’s business; —and a noble curiosity, questioning, in the front of danger, the source of the great river beyond the sand, —the place of the great continents beyond the sea; —a nobler curiosity still, which questions of the source of the River of Life, and of the space of the Continent of Heaven, —things which “the angels desire to look into. Sesame and Lilies. Lecture I.-Sesame: Of Kings’ Treasuries
  • The T-shaped chisel called the skull key, for extra leverage when prying apart the bones of the cranium. THE LAST TEMPTATION
  • And it can't hide your amour's frequently dialed number from prying eyes.
  • Even though Gibson was angry about what he considers harassment of his friends and family and prying into his personal life, he said he has already forgiven the reporter and those behind him.
  • At four feet five inches tall, Fin's dwarfism has earned him prying stares and questions all of his life.
  • They have also been abused by a prying-eyed media and unfairly pilloried by critics who only wish they could take one step down the artistic road that these men and women have walked.
  • After the ceremony lucky guests will be Sailing as they are whisked away to party on a luxury yacht away from prying eyes. The Sun
  • ‘Well I don't like people prying into my personal life either,’ I paused to give Markus a very pointed look.
  • As she squatted on the floor, she looked round the house with an inquisitive gaze; she peered pryingly from corner to comer.
  • The huge pile of pulp, at which men were picking and prying with pickaxe and canthook, ought to be a gold mine in these days of high prices of paper. At Plattsburg
  • For the past decade this Jugendstil masterpiece has been a battleground for the four sisters who inherited it, even as they seek to protect the coveted private property from the ravages of decay, pollution, theft and the prying eyes of the public. An Enchanted House Becomes a Family's Curse
  • This is just another example of the insidious prying into peoples' lives that is so prevalent in our society today.
  • She heads back into the house, phone in hand, protecting it from prying eyes. Times, Sunday Times
  • The cities had also acquired a political conscience to protect themselves from prying princes.
  • Sturdy metal doors, held shut with spring latches, keep prying eyes and little hands away from the internal components.
  • Some sought to contradict him, while others tried, unsuccessfully, to ignore his prying.
  • Events are experienced at a far remove, mediated by communications technologies in which the assumed perspective is that of the snooperscope, the prying electronic eye.
  • As the cattle paddle, ruminant and ruminating, sociably fussing with flank to flank, they occasionally raise prying muzzles to the horizon where, spectral in the mist and distance out at sea, boats swing to the wind.
  • The next time you decide to jump a red light, the prying eyes of the law may not be the only ones to be wary of.
  • `Do you have a boyfriend,' she asked her prospective tenant pryingly
  • Tobes raced from room to room, closing the drapes, shrouding them from prying outside eyes. A MEANS TO EVIL
  • Aidan and I made our way back outside and plopped down beneath the drooping branches of an old oak, as far away from prying eyes as possible. Haven
  • She tried to keep the children away from the prying eyes of the world's media.
  • He was thinking of a certain Russian sable coat that lay in his trunk at the cabin, and guarded from prying eyes by only a flimsy trunk lock. The Challenge of the North
  • I followed it until it passed through a natural bottleneck, then improvised a deadfall trap by prying a flagstone from the ground, which was not quite frozen, and whittling a trigger from dead sticks. Field & Streams Ultimate Winter Survival Tips
  • After gently unfastening the elastic strap keeping his dearest musings safe from prying eyes, little literary artiste Evan Stansky penned a few more darling thoughts into his clothbound Moleskine notebook Wednesday. My love for the Onion reaches ecstatic new level

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