The word went to Vincent's heart like the prod of sharp steel.

She was sensibly dressed in a short tweed skirt, high shooting-boots and a tam-o'-shanter hat, while I also had on an old shooting-suit and carried a thick serviceable stick with which I could prod likely spots.

There's something about these guysI dunno what it is exactlybut there's sure something that tells a fellow not to prod 'em overly much.

You dig on that side, and I'll prod on this.

Well, sir, a God's name, then do what you please. PROD.

Who's there? PROD.

And would ye have lodging then? PROD.

Then you would have lodgings belike, sir? PROD.

And take that ye find patiently? PROD.

And pay what I ask willingly? PROD.

[Exit. PROD.

What's the matter? PROD.

Is your haste so great, that by no means you may tarry? PROD.

Good, and God will? PROD.

A more monstrous beast, a beast more unwieldy, Since first I was born, yet[409] never beheld I. PROD.

Then what canst thou say for thyself, Prodigality, That according to the law thou shouldst not die? PROD.

God have mercy on thee! PROD.

pike, lance, spear, spontoon^, javelin, dart, jereed^, jerid^, arrow, reed, shaft, bolt, boomerang, harpoon, gaff; eelspear^, oxgoad^, weet-weet, wommerah^; cattle prod; chemical mace.

And here, as Li Wan paused to prod Olo with her staff, she heard the mellow silver of a woman's laughter.

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

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

When he spies me a-napping maybe he don't fetch me a prod with his pencil-case over the head.

From time to time he raised his bludgeon and ran in at me, but a sharp prod under the upraised arm always sent him leaping back out of reach with the inevitable 'Ower!'

Then would come another prod and a new chorus of howls rolling thunderously from the cavern under my feet.

He turned the man about and rushed him toward the house, the revolver still serving as a prod.