The insensibility to prickings and pinchings is perhaps the commonest test of the cataleptic condition; and, as will doubtless suggest itself to every reader, was, until modern times, a popular test of witchcraft.
When did you first discover his illness and hear him complain of unusual prickings in has stomach?
Is as astute as she is cold at heart; and can, when it suits her purpose, be both false and cruel without any subsequent prickings of remorse.
With the best will in the world to think so, he failed to rid himself of some prickings of anxiety and distrust.
But the preacher had effectually stopped the very last of those exquisite vague prickings of hope.
As they approached the large, high-spired church, Hilda had vagueprickings of hope, and was thereby much astonished.
She principally complained of prickingsin the legs, twitchings in the muscles and in the hands, which she said she could compare to nothing else than a galvanic shock.
When I had made a creeping detour to join him, he still had his man by the collar and was emphasizing the need for silence by sundry prickingswith the Ferara.
Now even so blunt a soldier as I have ever been may have some prickings of delicacy where the truth might breed gossip--gossip about a tale which I had said should die with Richard Coverdale and be buried in his grave.
And this attraction affected her morally, producing in her modesties, reticencies of speech, even of thought, and prickings of unflattering self-criticism unknown to her heretofore.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prickings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
