Nimble was very careful, after that, to prodonly those that didn't mind such pranks.
One day he even stole up behind his own mother and gave her a sharp prod with them.
I'll prod him again and just you note the prismatic coloring of his flames.
I'll give the beast a prod and let you see how he works.
Big Frank Farrell, the miller of Ballyboulteen, got a prod backwards that brought a hullabaloo out of him you might hear at the other end of the parish.
This prod in my shoulder's spoilt my lifting for some time.
The pony I was riding did his best, but even then could not avoid a sharp prod that would have ripped him up had not my leather bastos intervened.
Wheeling quickly to the guards at the door he cried,-- "Bring the chief huntsman here at once, and a prod in the back with a pike may make up for his loitering in the courtyard.
It is easy for those to speak well of the pike, who have not felt the prod of its point," cried Lord Maxwell angrily.
The notches multiplied pretty fast on my old monkey-wrench for about three weeks, but at the end of that time I found myself in jail for knocking out the front teeth of a fat German farmer after I had ducked a prod from his pitchfork.
I lay quiet and played "possum," but got a nasty prod in the groin when one of them turned me over with his bayonet to see where I was wounded.
Ranger gave a long prodthat sent the raft grating ashore.
With a prod of his pole, Wayland shoved off, and the frontiersman lengthened out the leading lines for the horses.
The driver had to use the prod and force him to the very best that was in him, before he was able to regain the lost ground.
He sat in silence for a moment, then, without a word, drove the prod into his camel.
That morning it had got a nasty prod in the shoulder from the horn of a passing narwhal, and the anxious mother was trying to comfort it, gathering it clumsily but tenderly against her side and coaxing it to nurse.
He had just managed to catch his foe a rending prod in the thick of the haunch.
The Secessionists liked to prod the New Englanders with what the South was going to do when they got to Boston.
Not long after this at the hospitable board of a Confederate general, then an American senator, Toombs began to prod Lamar about his speech in the House upon the occasion of the death of Charles Sumner.
Then I’ll cut you a long pole, and you can prod them in the ribs, and punch them up with it,” said Steve.
I can understand some roughhousing on his part—Stevens, too—providing these boys were on the prod in the beginning.
Easy-going man needs the prod of a pressing population.
Only a sharp prod will start it moving or accelerate its speed; such a prod is found in new geographic conditions or new social contacts.
Just remind them, Springer, that if they don't step faster than that somebody may hasten their movements with a prod from the point of a sabre," said Bob angrily.
They never uttered a word, but Bob's impatience and nervousness would have kept his tongue in constant motion had it not been for George, who gave him an energetic prod in the ribs whenever he showed a disposition to become colloquial.
Big Frank Farrell, the miller, of Ballyboulteen, got a prod backwards that brought a hullabulloo out of him that you might hear at the other end of the parish.
A man that's a bit "thick" escapes many a prod that another would feel sharp.
Here it made a hop, there a prod was made at it, but off it went, and someone, as eager to get a slice at it on the other side, got the prod instead of the pudden.
Youth is sensitive; often it is supersensitive, and Grant Adams saw or thought he saw in the little byplay of Tom Van Dorn the caste prod of society jabbing labor back into its place.
Sometimes when he had been doing tricks in a village for hours he would get very tired and lie down and sulk, when Pedro would beat and prod him cruelly.
I must club heem and prod heem much, or he eat me.
I will," said the giant, giving such a prod of the knife into his own stomach that he killed himself.
The tailor gave a prod of the knife, and he let the broth out of the skin.
Nevertheless, I crawled into the bushes and administered to Aunt Elizabeth a prod in the lower ribs--if hens have lower ribs.
Prod at him with a broom handle, Mrs. Beale," said Ukridge.
Joe took the ice-hook and prodded about on the bottom, everyprod bringing up one or two bits of ice, each one as it bobbed to the surface showing its sandy side for a moment and then turning over, clean side up.
The bull snorted at him scornfully and turned his head to take another prod at the unresponsive remnants of his foe.
Mike, who had been absorbing courage from the bottle, had fallen asleep, but was waked up by a prod from the tormentor.
Blackmore, checking Roos' hysterical giggle with a prod of his paddle handle, pushed off into the current.
It isn't everybody that can navigate under water like this old rat here," he added, giving Ike a playful prod in the ribs.
I don't think she believed me, so I invited her to prod it!
