So the Prince remained where he was, and Jack pricked his steed at full speed till he came to the giant's castle, at the gate of which he knocked so loud that he made the neighbouring hills resound.
Simple Simon went to look If plums grew on a thistle He pricked his fingers very much, Which made poor Simon whistle.
And then she pricked her finger so deeply that her hand bled, and she was obliged to take the pincers to draw the needle out.
He seemed to look round with a thoughtful eye, and prickedhis ears to the tread of the brisk young mountaineer--albeit he had a lame leg and a crutch--who came forth to lose his traces and lead him to the stable.
He was coming, there was no doubt about that, for he was tearing along, and his tongue was hanging out and his ears were pricked up.
Their line wimpled like a serpent, being pricked out to our sight with little reeling twinkles of fire, which I took to be the moon shining on their armour and the points of their spears.
Then, as the evil man went on with his pitiless jestings, his grey cloak began to waver before me, his face to glow like fire, and I fainted or dwamed away till the sharp knife pricked me into consciousness again.
Mary Walcot was pricked in the arm till the blood came, Abigail Williams was pricked in the stomach, and Mercy Lewis was pricked in the foot.
They showed the marks of her little teeth on their arms; and the pins with which she pricked them were found on their bodies, precisely where, in their shrieks, they had averred that she was piercing them.
The horse, proud and fiery in spite of its small size, prickedup its ears and pawed the ground.
Charles, frowning, while the hound sprang up and pricked his ears.
Shannon pricked his ears and flew it daintily--this was work he loved, and hot though the day might be, he was ready for any amount of it.
I pricked up my ears and felt a chill like that of death pass over me.
We nudged each other and pricked up our ears, for we had already canvassed the question of security, surrounded as we were by ruffians who looked quite ready to dispose of babes in the wood.
We caught plenty of trout, but never pricked a salmon.
She was clumsy enough with her needle, poor girl, and pricked her fingers as much as she had been used to ink them.
My ears were almost pricked with the strain of expectation, and I shortly heard the unmistakable beat of the native tom-tom.
The elephant thoroughly understood the work in hand; and as the loud yells and shouts of the beaters became nearer, Moolah Bux pricked his ears and kept a vigilant look-out.
Old Grannis's fingers trembled so that he pricked them with his needle.
The three magpies prickedup their ears again, and, as they listened, marvelled much.
He pricked up his cars at Plato, perhaps because the sound was not wholly dissimilar from that of Ponto,--a name of which he might have had vague reminiscences.
A little way off stood his horse, bridle-reins dragging, surveying the little group with his ears prickedup as if he, too, could smell the whisky.
I pricked up my ears at that, I can tell you, because Lessard isn't built that way at all.
The rider slipped from the saddle and stood facing the roan, which pricked its ears forward and struggled once more to regain its feet.
At every turn she pricked her small sharp ears as if she expected home and friends on the other side of the curve.
It seemed rather foolish to call the mare Mollie's Baby every time they spoke to her, so a family council had given her a brand new cognomen and already she pricked up her ears when she heard it.
Ella Lou pricked up her ears, and quickened her pace, down one little hill, up another, over a culvert, and suddenly there appeared white chimneys rising above an apple orchard at the top of the hill.
With a quick out-thrust of his four legs, he rolled over on his side and with questioning eyes and pricked ears looked and listened.
Michael looked up with pricked ears, and with eyes filled with query as all his intelligent consciousness suffused them.
Culligore, noticing that it stood open a crack, pricked up his ears and listened.
The Phantom took the syringe in his right hand, between thumb and third finger, and pricked the doctor's flesh with the needlelike point.
He was in the act of returning it to his hip pocket when of a sudden he pricked up his ears.
The stranger pricked up his ears; the answer showed him that it was no child of a collier or peasant, as he had at first supposed, who was crouched up there in the half-darkness of the ill-lit room.
The Baron pricked up his ears, and fixed his keen eyes searchingly upon the young engineer, but at the same time a mocking smile played about his lips.
She pricked up her pointed ears and said, "What's that!
Before you could say Jack Robinson, Kat's hook flew around and caught in Kit's clothes and pricked him.
But those letters pricked in your skin would say a good deal, it strikes me.
They first visited a large church at the upper end of a square that sloped its gravelled surface to the western shine, and was pricked out with little avenues of young pollard limes.
For God's sake, keep that secret you have so foolishly pricked on your breast.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pricked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
