47 collocations for prod

At any rate, by naked luck I prodded Abdul Ali where he kept his supply of mistakes.

Through the barred ceiling of the pen they prodded the bear from her sulking and sent her, malevolent and sullen, into the arena.

The fugitives by the gate still thought themselves abandoned, when her beak, six feet in air, stole past them, and her lean boatmen, prodding the river-bed with their poles, stopped her as easily as a gondola.

"Once for all, are you going to obey me or not?" Sádhu prodded his bullocks into a lumbering canter; but the bailiff gave a signal to his clubmen, who ran after him, dragged him out of the cart, and thrashed him soundly.

Glancing aside, she met the Vicomte de Tocqueville's tired smile; he was using his cane to prod the butcher and recall his attention to the half-cut steak.

Tom Bryan was a rough fellow, who ought to have been driving a plough; a ploughman's life was too peaceful an occupation for hima drover's life would have suited him best, prodding his cattle along the road with a goad; it was said that was how he maintained his authority in the parish.

He stopped, took out a knife, prodded his nearly smoked cigar, puffed once or twice hard to restore the draught, and spoke.

Then each of us thrust out the strip of lumber stealthily, prodding the big drab cones on every side.

In view of the ease with which he thus abandoned himself for a whole year to a life of indulgence, till his comrades prodded his conscience, we may infer that he was not so very unwilling a prisoner afterward, of the beautiful nymph Calypso, who held him eight years by force on her island.

"Stop that, Joris," he said, prodding the corporal with his elbow; "give me the paper; I can read it."

With this, he went down so far as seemed safe, and prodded the creature in one of its tentaclesthe weapon entering easily, at which I was surprised, for I had understood that these monsters were near to invulnerable in all parts save their eyes.

spat Madame disgustedly and prodded the Curé.

We'll get a pole and prod the dinosaur through the narrow part of the pass and hear him roar his awfullest.

So Markham prodded the donkey and they moved forward at a brisker pace.

She hopped about in the garden poking and prodding the earth with a stick, looking for her violets, her anemones, her star flowers.

I hallowed once and again to no avail, so I prodded the fellow with my sword to assist his respiratory organs, as he flew by.

Then returning to the prince, he prodded gently the prostrate figure.

They eliminated turnips, too, after they had prodded a frequent fork into some obstinate roots for about three quarters of an hour.

Why, I shall hear you saying a good word soon even for such unclean spawn as this," prodding the prostrate friar with the handle of his paddle.

At any rate, something or other in the way of pique urged me to stir him out of his self-complacency, just as one feels urged to prod a bull-frog to watch him jump.

[Note 7: Las Casas describes the finding of this nugget by an Indian girl, who accidentally turned it up while idly prodding the ground with a sharp instrument.

And he prodded his tired horse forward along the slowly moving column of fours.

She had moored her sampan alongside a flight of stone steps, up which, vigorously, with a bamboo, she now prodded her husband.

He tried to prod the placid John (his neighbour in their hut) into an equal ambition.

The third time he prodded Kazan with it, and the dog snarled and snapped savagely at the end of it.

47 collocations for  prod