10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRIGGER»
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The townspeople in St. Clere, Kansas, are sure it will never work out when the neat and orderly spinster, Minnie McGranahan, takes her nine orphaned nieces and nephews into her home in 1920. Reprint.
Mary Skillings Prigger, 2005
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Aunt Minnie and the Twister
After a tornado rearranges their Kansas house, Aunt Minnie and the nine nieces and nephews living with her add on a much-needed new room.
Mary Skillings Prigger, 2002
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The Non-dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker: Dekker his dreame, ...
This ranck-rider is of the Family of Knights'errant, or of .thofe wandring Rogue:
that march in the lirll files of my booke, his name is a I Prigger, deriuing his title
from his praé'tize, which is called the Prig/ging Law, whofe grounds 'are . the
Cleanly ...
Thomas Dekker, Alexander Balloch Grosart, Henry Chettle, 1620
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The Elizabethan Underworld - a Collection of Tudor and Early ...
Not far from T[ru]ro in Cornwall, a certain prigger, a horse-flealer, being a lance-
man, surveying the pastures thereabouts, spied a fair black horse without any
white spot at all about him. The horse was fair and lusty, well proportioned, of a
high ...
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The Elizabethan Underworld: A Collection of Tudor and Early ...
Not far from T[ru]ro in Cornwall, a certain prigger, a horse-stealer, being a lance-
man, surveying the pastures thereabouts, spied a fair black horse without any
white spot at all about him. The horse was fair and lusty, well proportioned, of a
high ...
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Rogues, Vagabonds, & Sturdy Beggars: A New Gallery of Tudor ...
A Prigger ofPrancers be horse stealers, for to prig signifieth in their language to
steal, and a Prancer is a horse, so, being put together, the matter is plain. These
go commonly in Jerkins of leather or of white frieze and carry little wands in their
...
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
prigger. *. A thief: c. >, in C.19, low s.: 1561, Awdelay. e.g. p. ofcacklers, prancers,
a poultry-, horse-thief. Ex PRIG, v., 1. (In C.16, often priggar.) 2. A highwayman: C
.17 c. Ex prig, to ride; prigger also meaning any rider: c. (or low s.) and dial. 3.
Eric Partridge, Jacqueline Simpson, 1973
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The guls hornbook: and The belman of London in two parts
He that steales the horse is called the Prigger. The horse is called a Prancer. The
seller away of the stolne horse is a Martar. The Tolling-housc is called Alhallowes
. The tiller is the Rifler. The sureties at the toll-booke are called Querrles.
Even closer now, Adam could see that it was a man's arms, hairy and strong on
Joey, and slowly craning his neck, saw it was Leo Prigger leaning over him.
Stepping back, Adam heard the ward door open behind him. He turned back to ...
Prigger. of. Prancers. Priggers of Prancers steal horses. They wear leather or
white wool jackets and carry small sticks. Harman adds: 'I had the best of my
horses stolen from my pasture, while the book was first printing.' ...
Alan Brooks-Tyreman, Jane Shuter, Kate Smith, 2000
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRIGGER»
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Salem City man arrested on outstanding warrant in Carneys Point …
Jayson Prigger, 34, of Salem, was arrested April 28 on an outstanding warrant in Carneys Point Township, police said. Prigger was wanted out ... «NJ.com, May 15»
Carneys Point woman arrested on outstanding warrant, police say
Jayson Prigger, 34, of Salem, was arrested Feb. 25 on an outstanding warrant out of Pennsville Municipal Court. Prigger was transferred to ... «NJ.com, Feb 15»
Salem County Sports Hall of Fame honors 2014 inductees
... jumper, his 5-foot-8 frame carrying him to 7-foot-1 heights with a variation of the "Fosbury Flop," taught to him by football coach Jack Prigger. «NJ.com, Jan 15»
Carneys Point Police Blotter includes DWI, outstanding warrants
Jayson Prigger, 34, of Salem, was arrested on outstanding warrants ... Prigger was stopped at 2:32 a.m. on warrants out of Carneys Point and ... «NJ.com, Jun 14»
Woman gets 17 months for lies, bribery
Over the years Prigger, 33, has been the subject of numerous criminal investigations, including allegations of prostitution and blackmail. «HeraldNet, Mar 10»
