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Example sentences for "pricking"

Lexicographically close words:
pricked; pricker; prickers; prickes; pricketh; prickings; prickle; prickled; prickles; prickling
  1. Only this poisoned spear pricking the very heart of a sith can kill it quickly enough to save its prey.

  2. We had come to within fifty feet of these men when I felt a sudden strange and rapid pricking sensation in one of my fingers.

  3. Should you come within fifty feet of any of these three you will feel a rapid, pricking sensation in the finger upon which you wear this ring.

  4. They had left Santa Caterina ten years ago; a sudden pricking of duty had come to the hermit of the red house; his obedience to it had, as Mrs. Venables said, cost him his life shortly afterwards.

  5. And so they journeyed, the flowers seeming sweeter and the skies brighter to Una, as they went, when suddenly they beheld One pricking towards them with hasty heat; Full strongly armed, and on a courser free.

  6. I have brought you hither that you may avenge me by pricking her with an arrow that will fill her heart with love for one of the basest of mortals.

  7. Says she has been very comfortable; the pricking sensations have ceased.

  8. For what shall I look for among thornes but pricking and scratching?

  9. By the pricking of my thumbs' when I see a Newbury I feel that a mere fraction divides me from the criminal class.

  10. You may preserve plums whole, without peeling, by pricking them deeply at each end with a large needle.

  11. Let the boy work now--with the spur of necessity pricking his flank!

  12. Then pricking on his mules, he waited for no more questions.

  13. Several writers claim good results with glycerole of papain, pricking it in in the same manner as in tattooing.

  14. Touching each freckle for a few seconds with the electric needle, just pricking the epidermis, will occasionally remove the blemish.

  15. Urticaria is an inflammatory affection characterized by evanescent whitish, pinkish or reddish elevations, or wheals, variable as to size and shape, and attended by itching, stinging or pricking sensations.

  16. She walked on over the cushions of heather, pricking her ankles in the low bushes of gorse.

  17. Such were the two personages who now came "pricking o'er the hill.

  18. In the evening dusk lights were pricking out all along the shore; the waste- lands beyond the furnaces were vague with night mists, faintly amethyst in the east, bronze and black over the city.

  19. All along the shore lights were pricking out of the twilight and sending wavering shafts down into the water.

  20. The real reason of Mrs. Clennam's apparent kindness to Little Dorrit was the pricking of her conscience, which gave her no rest.

  21. Journeying from Dan to Beersheba, and pricking through America on his way.

  22. They did not have a car, but drove an old white horse named Charlie, who was always pricking up his ears at you, hoping you would give him an apple.

  23. But all that morning while he went from one sales stable to another Jim knew Prince would be pricking his ears at every footstep around the club, and scanning every approaching face with hopeful, eager eyes.

  24. Old Frank, who had followed him around at first, pricking his ears at every shot, ready to bring in the game, had concluded that there would be no game to bring in, and had lost interest at last.

  25. The fiery Duke is pricking fast across Saint Andre's plain, With all the hireling chivalry of Guelders and Almayne.

  26. Before I could write two little words my finger stopped bleeding, and I wasn't going to keep on pricking myself every few minutes; besides, it won't do to use all your blood up that way.

  27. He was sitting there to watch for the race-horses coming back from exercise, Tom Chifney pricking along beside them on his handsome cob.

  28. His imagination vexed him, pricking up slumbering lusts of the flesh.

  29. And this, while opening up new sources of interest and pricking her ambition of conquest, disclosed unforeseen difficulties in the way of such conquest.

  30. Hollister, pricking up his ears at the report of Wellmere's pistol.

  31. Give us your gold," exclaimed the other, furiously, pricking the peddler with his bayonet until the blood followed his pushes in streams.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pricking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.