She would have covered Cissy over with flowers, shut her away from prying eyes, and buried her beside her nameless little baby in the grassy burying-ground under the pines of the "up back" church, with a bit of kindly prayer from the old Free Methodist minister.
Don't want 'em poking and prying about.
You'll come across as prying, and potentially a bit creepy.
Since they became parents three years ago, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have turned Anmer Hall in Norfolk into their perfect family home, offering a "normal" childhood for Prince George and Princess Charlotte away from prying eyes.
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder, has been at the forefront of a charm offensive apparently aimed at prying open the Chinese market.
VPNs were originally thought of as a way for companies to guarantee security or dissidents to avoid the prying eyes of their governments.
Third, a more practical point: it is very, very difficult to design a communications system that allows messages to be intercepted by the government but otherwise keeps them secure from prying eyes.
They were careful to pull the curtains to escape the prying eyes of neighbors taught to turn in their fellow citizens for seditious activities.
She sprang from the seat and exclaimed,"Stop prying the nails!
Hence, some editors say they are justified in prying into private lives to uncover any faults.
We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
We shaped our days the way we chose, far from the prying eyes of adults.
Then, sprinkling it on my face, she cried madly: "Wretch, receive the reward of your prying, and become a dog.
You stupid, prying goose, answered the dwarf.
' 'Ah, be silent, said the hostess, 'so many prying persons have already lost their lives, it would be a pity and a shame if such beautiful eyes as these should never see the daylight again.