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prise, prize Rare or dialect a tool involving leverage in its use or the leverage so employed |
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By the time I had recovered from the electric sur- prise of this remark, he was gone. I told him me and my brother was over on Spanish Island hunt- ing yesterday afternoon, and camped on a piece of a raft we found, and about midnight he must a kicked his gun in his dreams, for it went off and shot him in the leg, and we wanted him to go over there and fix it and not say nothing about it, nor let anybody know, be- cause we wanted to come home this evening and sur- prise the folks. As we sat over our vermouths he glorified the Company's business, and by-and-by I expressed casually my sur- prise at him not going out there. |
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