The spines or prickles were nearly white and soft, and were not spread over the whole body, but arranged in rows down it.
I suppose the pike did not much like the look of the prickles or spines, for he did not eat the fish.
The outside of the durian is ligneous and is covered with strong prickles of nearly an inch long.
It has its body covered with sharp spines instead of hairs, and can roll itself up in a ball, and thus show an array of prickles pointing in every direction.
The seeds are like those of the Round or Summer Spinach, but larger: they are destitute of the prickleswhich distinguish the seeds of the Common Winter Spinach.
The horrific array of prickles presented as it digs an undignified retreat, and the tenacity with which it holds the ground, have given rise to the fiction that no dog is capable of killing an echidna.
When disturbed, the echidna resolves itself into a ball, tucking its long snout between its forelegs, and packing its barely perceptible tail close between the hind ones, presenting an array of menacing prickles whencesoever attacked.
Not only are there prickleson the 10-feet thongs, but the leaves and leaf-sheaths are thickly beset.
Presently he found his way again into the Rectory garden, avoiding the prickles of the tree against which he had spiked himself on his way out.
He went right into the big clump of laurels, and speared himself on the prickles of the old hawthorn before he emerged from the Rectory gates.
And the next thing I recollect is the prickles of the gorse-bush in which our nest was hidden, and the splendid yellow bloom, and the strong sweet scent it gave to the air.
When we grew big enough we all five got up to the edge of the nest one by one, and our mother teased us to come out through the green prickles the same way that she came in and out to feed us.
We have already pointed out in a previous chapter how necessary their spines and prickles are if they must resist rats, mice, camels, and other enemies.
It is by thorns, spines, and prickles that plants often protect themselves against the attacks of grazing animals.
Bramble prickles are generally curved back in order to hook or cling to the branches of other trees, but any one who has tried to force his way through a clump of brambles knows the difficulty of doing so.
The peculiar, curved-back prickles of the Bramble and its arching sideways growth would of course hang it on to any horizontal branches in the neighbourhood.
If one copies this with the hand it is easy to see how the length and arrangement of the prickles and the flexible nature of the spray would make such a proceeding on the cow's part most uncomfortable.
It is also helped in climbing by its leaves, which curve outwards, and are also provided with grappling prickles on the under side.
But the Bryar which sends forth shoots and prickles from its angles, maintains its pentagonall figure, and the unobserved signature of a handsome porch within it.
Stamens and undivided style not longer than the broadly bell-shaped calyx; berries large, armed with long prickles or rarely smooth.
There are still other forms and orders in this family, as the Hydnei, in which the hymenium clothes the surface of prickles or spines, and the Auricularini, in which the hymenium is entirely or almost even.
Oliver felt prickles come out suddenly all over his body, and without quite knowing why, he began to move away from that place, tip-toe and slippingly, like a wild creature in the woods when it does not know who may be about.
I remember the damp smell of the earth and the good smell of the browse after the sun goes down, and between them a thin blue mist curling with a stinging smell that made prickles come along the back of my neck.
These tusks protect the trunk, which curls up between them when the animal traverses woods in which there are many thorns, prickles and thick underbrush.
Leaves irregularly about twice odd-pinnate; the leaflets lanceolate; quite a low plant with few heavy-tipped branches; plant without prickles 27.
Prickles of the fruit mostly recurved or spreading.
Cone-scales with small prickles which are early deciduous 20.
Eli took the hand, and had the gorse-prickles forced well into his.
I abandoned my dignity, my sense of honour; I took the furze prickles to my breast and wallowed in them.
With prickles sharper than his darts bemock His little Godship, making him perforce Creep through a thorn-bush on yon hedgehog's back.
Easily caught, the dusky Dryades With prickles sharper than his darts would mock.
Steady heavy rain had set in; every blooming thing in the scrub seemed to have prickles on it, or else a sting, and I soon got scratched to pieces.
Terry halted and, with a wave of his hand, invited my attention to that serried bulwark of thorns, prickles and stinging abominations.
And why had it touched upPrickles as if with a live wire?
It came from straightaway down the ditch; from ahead, wherePrickles had been heading for; from the farm, and Heaven know what it portended!
It was not, however, so much the fact that Prickles had gone that was so noticeable as the fact that he had arrived.
And Prickles stopped as abruptly as if it had smitten him on his nose, too.
Prickles, however, was a new factor that had got to short-circuit that end, and Prickles didn't wait to meditate prehistorically that time.
Prickles waited the one-fifth part of an instant, to listen and locate.
Occasionally even the upper leaf surfaces are dotted over with prickles enough to tear a tender tongue.
This is a curious feature, for pricklesusually grow out of veins.
Almost all plants are more or less covered with hairs, and it needs but a slight thickening at the base, a slight woody deposit at the point, to turn them forthwith into the stout prickles of the rose or the bramble.
In the prickly pear, the bundles of prickles are arranged geometrically with great regularity in a perfect quincunx.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prickles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
