15 Verbs to Use for the Word pricking

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

Dick involuntarily moved his chair a little away from her, and thought he felt a pricking in the small white scars on his wrist.

And rowing with his legs the while, As tars are apt to ride; With every kick he gave a prick, Deep in the horse's side!

She was a free-spoken woman as a rule, and it was terrible to have to sit still and waste all the good things she could have said to her in favour of unsatisfying pin-pricks.

He bore their pin-pricks with equanimity, secure in the constant support of Kisari Babu.

He had noticed a queer-looking plant on the river-bank the day before, and had stopped to pick it up, when he received such a sudden and unexpected pricking as to cause him to jump back and shout for Kalitan.

We seem constantly on the edge of a precipice, over which, were we to go, the fate awaiting us would reduce the tortures of Hades to pin-pricks.

But a microscopic search revealed tiny needle pricks in certain words, and the words, thus indicated, read when taken by themselves the sentence, 'Important naval news follows.'

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.

"That little maid is over much with old Hanne," he said, as if he meditated to himself; "she will teach her other prickings than the needle-play.

En w'en he 'mence' ter tell 'bout de noo nigger, Mars Jeems prick' up 'is yeahs en listen', en eve'y now en den

The head of the cross receives the pricks referring to "more"; the solitary arm that is not maimed, those meaning "the same"; the long foot of the cross those meaning "less."

That line has got the prick and prayse from all the rest.

Once this figure sank to its knees, but stumbled up again 'neath the vicious prick of a pike-head that left blood upon the bronzed skin, whereat Beltane uttered a hoarse cry.

" To quote one or two further instances, a popular recipe for preventing the prick of a thorn from festering is to repeat this formula: "Christ was of a virgin born, And he was pricked with a thorn,

15 Verbs to Use for the Word  pricking