His eyes, rivetted upon where the clump of trees stood out against the semi-darkness of the approaching dawn, saw of a sudden a light prick out like a tiny flame, low down upon the very edge of the Fens.
To hear him speak in that sharp, young voice of his was to make the hair upon one's neck prick in supernatural discomfort.
Line a pie-dish with puff paste, prick well with a fork and bake carefully, then fill the case with a custard made as follows.
It was another pin-prick in the wound that had been festering for so long.
At least this would be a pin-prick in the enemy's side!
How could you everprick those perfect ears, Even to put the pearl there!
Take the goad, prick him forth, and then close the door of the den.
Procure the walnuts while young; be careful they are not woody, and prick them well with a fork; prepare a strong brine of salt and water (4 lbs.
Prick the sausages with a fork (this prevents them from bursting), and put them into a frying-pan with a small piece of butter.
Wash the beets free from dirt, and be very careful not to prick the outside skin, or they would lose their beautiful colour.
Wash the beets thoroughly; but do not prick or break the skin before they are cooked, or they would lose their beautiful colour in boiling.
Roll it out thin; cut it with the top of a glass into round biscuits; prick them well, and bake them from 6 to 10 minutes.
Select large ripe plums; slightly prick them, to prevent them from bursting, and simmer them very gently in a syrup made with the above proportion of sugar and water.
Prick it well, and ornament with one or two strips of candied orange-peel.
Gather the plums when they are full-grown and just turning colour; prick them, put them into a saucepan of cold water, and set them on the fire until the water is on the point of boiling.
As I opened the door of the dusty old hack, I glanced up and saw the first star prick brightly through the evening sky.
There she found a capital o, thus, O, at the beginning of a sentence; and she did not know whether she ought to prick such a one as that or not.
I am going to find every o there is on this page, and prick them all.
Look all through that line, and prick every o you can find.
Lucy did not know what to reply to this reasoning,--only that Miss Anne had told her to prick o, and Miss Anne knew best.
Then take the next line, and the next, and so on regularly through the whole, and prick every o.
Just as a light pin-prick may set agoing complex physical activities in the frog, so may comparatively simple visual sensations give rise to complex mental activities in construction and reconstruction.
There is no feeling here," said the doctor; "I couldprick it with a pin without causing any sensation of pain.
At any rate my hope was that they had not done so, and that is why I waded out to prick the eyes of Houman.
Miss Huntress began to prick up her professional ears.
It carries the irradiating light of hope and purpose, without the petty pin-prick of detail which comes when reality parodies ideals.
It was only towards the end of the evening that Ishmael's complacency received a slightprick that made it waver.
It was not often that Hubert had regrets for the Faith he had lost; but to-night things had conspired to prick him.
The instant she felt the prick she fell upon the bed which was standing near, and lay still in a deep sleep which spread over the whole castle.
Forgetting the weariness of the streets and the degradation of search, he would sometimes prick up his ears.
The great and the little, the conviction of his mind and the prick of his vanity, worked together in him.
That he studied at his peril he knew well and had known from the first; it was but another prick of the spur to him.
Lady Cromwell, Mrs. Throgmorton, and the girls were in waiting, armed with long pins to prick the witch, and see if they could draw blood from her.
Prick peason and beanes, if thy garden be dry, At change of the moone, and in beautiful skye.
It should seem that this paper did prick to the quick; and no satisfaction being thereby accepted, Bishop LAUD is called, and he must go to answer to it in writing.
I prick him with a fine needle in the fore-part, which the animal, shrunk into its shell, still leaves exposed.
He sat down by his table, opened a book, and began to read: but he could not regain his calmness; at the end of a few minutes his conscience began to prick him; the letters blurred before his eyes so that he could not make out a sentence.
