Horse soldiers have also an ornamental cord to their head-dresses, and it seems likely that the aiguillettes had another origin, and that prickers or some other instruments were at one time attached to them.
The prickers on the shoulder-belt of a Hussar, which survive from the time of flint-lock muskets.
These common prickers became at last so numerous, that they were considered nuisances.
I gave special directions to the prickers to drive the beasts away.
At sight of them, the whole herd wheeled round and fled, but were pursued by the prickerstill they were driven into the depths of the furthest thicket.
Six of the prickers remained watching over them during the day, in order that the royal hunting-party might not be disturbed, and the woods echoed with the bellowing of the angry brutes.
And now gie us a crossbow, Sir Richard Hoghton, and bid the prickers drive the deer afore us, for we wad try our skill as a marksman.
On arriving near his den, a boar-spear was given to the King, and the prickers advancing into the wood, presently afterwards reared the enormous brute.
While this was going forward, the squire and his companions, congratulating themselves on their narrow escape, galloped off, and entered the long avenue of sycamores, from which the prickers had emerged.
These common prickers became at last so numerous that they were considered nuisances.
One of theprickers mounted and rode at full speed to the castle of Oigny, and there requested the lord of the place to give him a flask or two of sound old Burgundy; ten minutes after he was back again.
These men were the prickersand kennelmen of the Lord of Vez.
And besides,” said one of the prickers with a sneering laugh, “if Master Thibault values his goat at a price which he thinks only my lord can pay, there is nothing to prevent him coming to the castle of Vez to claim this payment.
One of the prickers ran forward and caught at his stirrup-leather.
The thick cloth rendered the prickers harmless, so the Wizard walked over this first blanket and spread the second one farther on, in the direction of the phantom city.
On the hillside surrounding this tableland are no paths at all, but there are quantities of bramble-bushes with sharpprickers on them, which prevent any of the Oz people who live down below from climbing up to see what is on top.
Well, I have still got it, and as it gets dry the prickers are sharper than needles, sharper even than a servant's tooth, as it says in the good book.
You know that horse chestnut, with the prickers on, that I put in dad's pants at Washington.
On the hillside surrounding this tableland are no paths at all, but there are quantities of bramble bushes with sharp prickers on them, which prevent any of the Oz people who live down below from climbing up to see what is on top.
Very early in the morning the prickers of the host sent tidings that the Britons were near at hand.
He learned from his prickers tidings that a company of Romans was despatched to rescue the captives.
Prickers and holders of the kind represented in fig.
The holes made by the prickers are to receive the pins, stuck in as you go along, round which you form and by which these are kept in their place.
Now and again, when any of the Quality came to hunt in the Chase, the Head Keeper would make use of a score or so of them as beaters and rabble-prickers of the game; but nine months out of the twelve they rather starved than lived.
It iz sed that they hav the power ov throwing their prickers like a javelin, but this iz a smart falshood.
I hav seen them run under an apple tree, and rolling over on the fruit which had fallen from the tree, carry oph on their prickers a dozen ov them.
Yeomen prickers they are, who tend to the King's hunt.
It is used by their prickers and huntsmen when the beast hath not fled, but is still in its lair.
In the High Street of Lyndhurst the wayfarers had to pick their way, for the little town was crowded with the guardsmen, grooms, and yeomen prickers who were attached to the King's hunt.
There was a particular point in the avenue at which the prickerswere visible from the windows, and when they were seen, my grandfather used to ring the bell and ask if there was a round of beef in the house.
The King and Queen always came quite simply in a carriage and four with the prickers riding before in crimson liveries.
The northern prickers laid their spears in rest, spurred their lean steeds, and charged the warriors of the White Rose with a vigor that defied resistance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prickers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
