To Sixth Avenue drift men who, for the first time in a Miss-spending life, are feeling the prick of a fraying collar.

Thou art aware that thou wilt be beaten with rods and pricked with goads, chained and starved in a dungeon, very probably blinded, very possibly burned with fire?'

His great dread was that he might be pricked in his sleep, on which account he would sit up watching far into the morn.

It was a quiet that penetrated, that pricked to vague alarm.

I looked again at the third victim, and saw a man roughly dressed, with bushy black hair and tangled beard; a very giant of a man, whose physical strength must have been enormousand yet it had availed him nothing against that tiny pin-prick on the hand!

The logs were pricked into slow movement.

When thou pricked at his pap with the point of a spear, And touched the tabernacle of his true heart, Where my bower was bigged to abide for ever? built.

the air pricked like needles when it blew against flesh.

I would not that Mahomet should suffer the smallest prick from a thorn; no, not even if by that means I could be safe once more among my kindred.

Joanna pricked for a king.

The European forest, with its long glades and green sunny dells, naturally suggested the figures of armed knight on his proud steed, or maiden, decked in gold and pearl, pricking along them on a snow white palfrey.

He didn't know how long he had slept when a faint scratching pricked through the veil of slumber, and he said to himself, "Kaviak's on a raid again," but he was too sodden with sleep to investigate.

It said that with us the beautiful are not clever and the clever are not beautiful, and that the best of our moments are marred by a little vulgarity, or by a pin-prick out of sad recollection, and that the fiddle must ever lament about it all.

Thinking better of it, and perceiving William from afar, he pricked towards him, and taking off his glove struck him gently on the shoulder, saying, "I swore to strike you, and so I am quit: but fear nothing more from me.

" "But how come you felt them scars pricking as a bad-luck sign, Ronicky?" he asked after a time.