Then are these folk, alas, woefully bewrapped, for God prickeththem of his great goodness still.
And surely, cousin, the prick that very sore pricketh the mind surpasseth in pain the grief that paineth the body, almost as far as doth a thorn sticking in the heart surpass and exceed in pain the thorn that is thrust in the heel.
Into his saddle be clomb anon, And pricketh over stile and stone, An elf queen to espy; Till he so long had ridden and gone, That he at last upon a morn The fairy land came nigh.
I may not walk such distance, nay, nor ride, But I be dead, so pricketh it my side.
And let me tell you, my young master, my conscience it pricketh me even now for letting you turn your back thus on fortune and peaceful days.
Sir 22:19 He that pricketh the eye will make tears to fall: and he that pricketh the heart maketh it to shew her knowledge.
He pricketh through a fair forest, Therein is many a wild beast.
Nowe if I should demand of the gredie cormoraunts what they thinke should be the cause of sedition, they would saie, 'The paisent knaves be too welthy, provender pricketh them.
He that pricketh the eye, bringeth out tears: and he that pricketh the heart, bringeth forth resentment.
One dog for a hog, and one cat for a mouse, one readie to giue is ynough in a house: 22 One gift ill accepted, keepe next in thy purse, whom prouender pricketh are often the wurse.
Well, nature pricketh me some remorse on thee to have.
Young it pricketh (folks do say), that will be a thorn, Esau hath been naught, ever since he was born.
And then one of the hunters cometh to him and beateth and smiteth him, and pricketh him full sore.
Margaret went on to say: "Then in that case you can easily make him fancy you, and for my sake you must, for my conscience it pricketh me and I must needs fit him with a wife, the best I know.
When Kay the Seneschal seeth that he may not harm him, he turneth him back, full of great wrath, and his heart pricketh to avenge him thereof and he may get at him, for he is the knight of the court that most he hateth.
Loue prickethand prouoketh the spirite to do well, I do confesse, but that affection ought to be addressed to some vertuous end, tending to mariage, for otherwise that vnspotted Image shall be soyled wyth the villany of Beastly pleasure.
That this is true, example of this fayre Duchesse, who was moued wyth that desyre which pricketh others that be of Flesh and Bone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pricketh" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
