It is, however, really a very small, dark, horny prickle at the tip of the fleshy part of the tail, and entirely hidden by the hair.
The usual price of each prickle is two shillings and three pence.
Sane as Kenset was, as cool and self-contained, he could not repress a cold prickle of resentment at that memory.
For the next few days following the short, awkward visit of the stranger Tharon felt a prickle of uneasiness under her skin at every thought of it.
A draft of even chillier air made his skin prickleand fluttered the flame of the candle Husain had lit when he woke them.
When he comes to burn your prickle off, I will slip it into your mouth.
Miss Lorne came to an instant standstill and clutched her belongings closer to her with a shake and a quiver; and a swift prickle of goose-flesh ran round her shoulders and up and down the backs of her hands.
Is that what is making me prickle all over and feel as though I want to commit murder?
FN#57] So saying the Wag put off all his clothes till he was naked, with prickle and breech exposed and danced among the slave-girls.
FN#331] his prickle upon which he spat and slipped it into him.
In distress the husband asks, as his second wish, to be delivered of this burden, and “immediately his prickle disappeared altogether and he became clean smooth.
So he prayed to his Lord and his prickle was restored to its first estate.
Ralph wondered silently if even a minister of the Marrow kirk in good standing, could compose himself on one whin prickle for certain, and the probability of several others developing themselves at various angles hereafter.
It would be worth knowing how much the devastating sheep have had to do with driving the tender plants to the shelter of the prickle bushes.
I like to see hawks sitting daunted in shallow holes, not daring to spread a feather, and doves in a row by the prickle bushes, and shut-eyed cattle, turned tail to the wind in a patient doze.
He opened his eyes and found him self lying on the merge of the cold-water tank, amongst a crowd of people all laughing at him; for his prickle was at point and the napkin had slipped from his middle.
Prickle happened to be at variance with the innkeeper, and the curate durst not disoblige the vicar, who at that very time was suing the farmer for the small tithes.
Its leaf is longer, its cone usually more orbicular and the prickle weaker.
Presently she fell to washing the prickleas it were a dead body, and after bathing it she shrouded it with a kerchief: then she cried upon her women and they all bewept the untimely fate of his yard which was still clothed in the kerchief.
Now when she went in to her new lord she donned her best of dresses so he lay down beside her and sought carnal copulation, but his prickle would not stand erect, as was its wont, although he knew not the cause thereof.
Pathologically the first change noted in the epidermis is thought to be an acanthosis, followed by epithelial atrophy, and a hyperkeratosis, intercellular edema, and colloid degeneration of the prickle cells.
Variable [oe]dema of the prickle layer and of the cutis is found.
And immediately his prickle disappeared altogether and he became clean smooth.
He woke with a sudden start some time after; there was a chill in his limbs, not from the air which glowed bright in the steady sun, but a chill of the spirit that made his hair prickle in an unusual way.
Prickle was quite fond of being petted, and with his spines lying down like hair, would make a queer little sound indicative of pleasure at being caressed.
The wild Dog-rose is still the "canker" in the speech of the old people, and a thorn or prickle is still a "bush.
I felt the prickle of my skin, the stiffening of my hair, as well as the cold tingling thrills along my veins.
Also it brought the cold tight prickle to my skin, the shudder that was not a thrill, the pressure of blood running too swiftly, I did not feel myself shake, but the rifle was unsteady.
