With that he pries open a fat leather green goods case, paws over a layer of yellow backs two or three inches thick-and fishes out a couple of ten spots.
"Shorty McCabe"
Sewell Ford
The implements are now thrust about 8 inches below the surface; the song ceases; each toiler pries her section of the soil loose and, in a moment, together they push their tools from them, the mass of soil - some 2 feet long, 1 foot wide, and 8 inches deep - falls away in the water, and the song begins again.
"The Bontoc Igorot"
Albert Ernest Jenks
It is pure luck which pries open most doors of life, and it was upon luck alone I must rely now.
"My Lady of the North"
Randall Parrish