At first he did it just casually, here and there: but, after a little, he started prodding at regular intervals, methodically.
Henri hesitated, then, prodding the engineer with his foot, gave additional warning of the threatened danger.
It won't be the first time that I've entered the paternal dwelling with muddy boots," he reflected as he waded through the shallow stream, prodding the bed of the brook with his stick at each step.
Down into the darkness about them the sun rays penetrate day by day, stroking them with the brushes of light, prodding them with spears of flame.
That question which exacts of the finite to affirm whether it apprehends the Infinite, that prodding of the evening midge for its opinion of the polar star.
Now his pony was biting and kicking in an effort to free itself from the animals that were prodding it with horns and buffeting it from side to side.
That Tad should come out of that melée of flying hoofs and prodding horns without being at least seriously injured was more than he could hope.
The cattle were moving restlessly about, proddingeach other with their horns, while guards were galloping here and there, talking to them soothingly and whipping into line those that had strayed from the main herd.
That's what we brought you here for," declared the boss, rising and prodding Darrin with one foot.
Done," responded Reade, after prodding the potatoes with a fork.
There’s where you meet hunters, and trappers for the 152 Circuses, prodding along chained bears and muzzled wolves.
Illustration: ‘There’s where you meet hunters, and trappers for the Circuses, prodding along chained bears and muzzled wolves.
There’s where you meet hunters, and trappers for the Circuses, prodding along chained bears and muzzled wolves.
John, who was a very hungry fellow, kept prodding the pieces with a pointed stick to see if they were fit to eat, but they were still springy.
The bull went up and stood over her, prodding her in the stomach with his horn, offering me a good broadside shot, which I took, placing a bullet in his shoulder.
Prodding dirks drove me across to the front of the torture chamber, where a frame with curtains of split bamboo had been set up on the matting of the raised floor.
The norimon of the princess had been swung about, and its reluctant bearers were being forced into a trot by prodding dirks.
Connie Myers stood up, and, leaning forward, examined the stone critically at top and bottom, prodding it with the bar.
Noticing Tharn was awake, the man lowered the spear point with which he had been prodding the captive.
His prodding foot had torn away a curtain of foliage, disclosing the bleached skeleton of a man, stretched out on one of the steps.
Tarzan was upon the point of prodding him on again when Sabor broke into view, and behind her the ape-man saw that which gave him instant pause--four full-grown lions trailing the lioness.
Truly this stranger was making life very interesting, even if he was only prodding over its dead moles.
We sate on together in an uneasy silence, she pushing out her lips, restlessly prodding Cherry with her foot, and occasionally uttering some inarticulate sound that was certainly not intended as conversation.
He went on proddingaway with a serious countenance, evidently under the impression that he had me hard put to it.
And then away they would go at it, prodding at each other's bellies until somebody's flesh swallowed a foot of steel.
He was carrying a stick, and prodding with it foolishly among the furze and gorse bushes.
But do not keep on so incessantly proddingmy coat-pockets with that sharp stiletto of yours.
And this time Araktseieff was not, as usual, proddingabout with his sword-stick.
He worked hard to reload before they could reach him--but here they were, prodding at him with their lances.
The clothes delayed the Indians behind; those already here were still prodding at the mules.
Like hounds in search of a fox, they thrust their bodies into every crevice, prodding walls and ground with their spears, and drawing the covers blank, turned away with a snarl of rage, to proceed with the hunt elsewhere.
Resuming his labours, Jim kept prodding at the wall till quite a respectable amount had fallen.
Still, the pocket was shallow, it might have dropped near, and she resumed her task, prodding at intervals for the flask.
They moved slowly, prodding the sawdust and planking that built up the yard, and she hoped to gain the porch before they came that far.
Wake up, old chap," he said to Lawrence, prodding him.
He had looked round once to find out what it was prodding him.
A woman behind was prodding him between the shoulder-blades with the sharp edge of a package wrapped for mailing.
If it hesitated, it was not long, for only a creature of iron could withstand the fierce prodding in the ribs with sharp wooden poles, and the wild yells would make an Apache war-whoop sound a whisper of first love.
It needs water now," Nell spoke after prodding in the earth.
In the second, a similar man was screaming at the pitch of his lungs, while half-a-dozen black creatures were battering him with poles and prodding him with lances.
Why, I shall hear you saying a good word soon even for such unclean spawn as this," prodding the prostrate friar with the handle of his paddle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prodding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: encouragement; incitement; insistence; instance; pressing; pressure
