It is too rough, Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like Thorn.
His ears were tuned to the finest pin-pricks of sound, so that he heard the faint, sighing "squish" of a sodden shoe upon which a weight had shifted.
One climbs a molehill for a bunch of may, One stands on tiptoe for a linnet's nest And pricks her hand and throws her flowers away And runs for plantin leaves to have it drest.
And then, in a moment, I seemed to be back in the great playground; then away on to the common, where we hunted for lizards amongst the furze, and got more pricks than reptiles.
My tongue's getting all in a knot, it tingles and pricks a bit.
Presently her little son cried, "Mother, take off my brother's crown; itpricks me!
The queen's son cried, "Dear brother, come and take back your crown, itpricks so!
The effluvia of the birds will then so excite the young dogs, especially if cheered with good companionship, (which always creates emulation,) that they will utterly disregard the pricks and scratches of the strongest furze.
His ragged tail betwixt his legs he wears, Close clapped for shame; but his rough crest he rears, And pricks up his predestinating ears.
I am far too independent, too much the master of my own thoughts, and my conscience pricks me often enough for my insincerity.
It is worth more than life to me,--is it not worth some pricks to you?
Do you bend down and kiss me every time Canute pricks him.
Cuts also there were, pricksin the posterior fleshy parts; much rending of skirts, and other discrepant waste.
Suggestion was followed by ether narcosis, during which, on pricks of the healthy side with a pin, the patient made defensive movements with the paralyzed hands, and also moved both legs.
Upon slight pin-pricks in the skin of the legs, there would occur a marked shaking spasm of the leg, passing directly to the other leg.
Stewart’s first prick or two “the unconscious took no notice, but as the pricks continued, the former memory was revived and the unconscious became on guard.
Purves Stewart noted that there was an anesthesia and analgesia to pin-pricks and cotton wool on the whole of the right arm.
With a hot needle a number of pricks were made on the dorsal surface of the hand and a few c.
Pin-pricks were recognized on the right side only, when the patient was tested bilaterally.
He felt pricks in the groin and gradually developed a pseudospastic tremor of the lower extremity, paraparesis inferior, depression, irritability, pressure sensations in the head, and sleeplessness.
Whatever may have been his gracelessness and his faults, he had loved his wife; and now that he was losing her, that love was greater than it had ever been: some pricks of conscience may have been mingled with it, too!
All kinds of unpleasant pricks were sending their darts through his conscience.
Tis some od humorpricks him to this fashion, Yet oftentimes he goes but meane apparel'd Bap.
Too rude, too boysterous, and itpricks like thorne Mer.
Except in nail pricks of the foot, occasioned by punctures, a five per cent tincture of iodin is injected into open joints, if the wound remains sufficiently open, and this treatment is continued so long as there is a discharge of synovia.
This does not include accidental nail pricks occasioned in shoeing.
Lie tumbling in my bare-foot way, and mount Their pricksat my footfall.
What were the little pinpricks which had excited her impatience in ---- to this pain!
He was so happy in his art, so completely occupied with it, that he scarcely noticed the pitiful social pin-pricks which formerly would have caused him vexation enough, and consequently did not consider the importance they had for Natalie.
Suddenly he raises his head, pricks his ears, scents the air, looks fixedly at the hedge, and utters a low growl.
Conversely, many of the cases where dogs and other animals are said to know when they have done wrong, and to suffer the pricks of conscience, may probably be satisfactorily explained by association.
He did not suffer; he merely experienced a great inner chill, accompanied by slightpricks on his skin.
He wanted Therese to kiss the scar, convinced that the lips of this woman would appease the thousand pricks lacerating his flesh, and with raised chin he presented his extended neck for the embrace.
They had not had a quarrel for almost three months, and a large arrear of little pricks on either side was pending.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pricks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
