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pricking
1. It is a long and very warm hug; it very nearly undermines my practical non-emotional intentions and I feel tears pricking
2. pricking at his left ankle
3. I nod, tears pricking my eyes as I explain about the pregnancy test
4. pricking out the shapes of autumn berry stains and sticky jam jars
5. Tears pricking in my eyes, I look across at Berndt, still standing by the porthole
6. The bare patch of earth where Sam is buried is showing a fuzz of green as the grass re-establishes itself and I stand there for several moments remembering the times she used to come and lie under the tree while I worked in the garden; I miss her still and the tears start pricking in my eyes again
7. displayed her approval by pricking up her ears and
8. ” The tears had started pricking my eyes when he said
9. ” I swallowed and felt tears pricking my eyes so to stop myself from blubbering like a baby I pulled Helen to me and whispered in her ear
10. 4 missed fire through defective pricking; but in the second round each gun sent a shell hurling against the blockhouse, and the enemy could be seen scampering to cover
11. Every now and then Stelze stopped and looked back, pricking her ears
12. After a few steps she stopped and looked back, again pricking her ears
13. When I finally reached Spencer I was hot and could feel the perspiration pricking my forehead, a nervous smile plastered on my face
14. She would always feel pricking sensation in her heart whenever
15. 24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them,
16. My sire’s eyes swirled dangerously, pin pricking his whiteness with balls of black, mingling, mixing to make complete darkness
17. and the constant checks and pricking of the baby
18. “He’s only got one leg?” I said, pricking into the conversation
19. “We may be about to find out,” said the Captain, his pointed fox ears pricking up as a growling engine noise came filtering through the air
20. weary man pricking his finger with a black dirk such as was unavailable in the outskirts of the city, and
21. She was rapturous and even the small pricking bite didn’t interrupt her
22. A strange cold was pricking my skin like a thousand tiny thorns
23. needles pricking the skin, they could vaguely discern the form of a rider
24. Recently I have an elderly female patient who complained of pain in her left eye due to pricking sensation in conjunctiva (the white part of the eye)
25. To make it worse for women, affairs induce a feeling of guilt in them, pricking their conscience all the time
26. And the pricking of the fingers to tell where you are – yeah, not good
27. as she walked over the tiny stones, it felt as though they were needles pricking into her skin
28. “Can you read it!” she says, pricking the blade beneath his chin
29. This man, Roth Parnell, had always irritated Rad with a pricking that was not the usual
30. What?’ Questions were pricking my mind, which was already choked with hesitation and shyness
31. Taking a few steps forward, she was overcome with emotion, the first pangs of tears pricking her eyes
32. He’s pricking her and not you
33. Your pomposity could do with pricking now and again
34. When a block is passed the pricking is changed into heat
35. Initially you can feel other things than heat: pricking (like when
36. cially pricking, localized around the problem zone)
37. He then caused all the duennas of the palace, those that are here present, to be brought before him; and after having dwelt upon the enormity of our offence, and denounced duennas, their characters, their evil ways and worse intrigues, laying to the charge of all what I alone was guilty of, he said he would not visit us with capital punishment, but with others of a slow nature which would be in effect civil death for ever; and the very instant he ceased speaking we all felt the pores of our faces opening, and pricking us, as if with the points of needles
38. As soon as He finds that a man is trying to conceal an evil he has done, He wakens a little watchman in his heart, who keeps on pricking the person with a thorn till all his rest is gone
39. 'I could see them pricking up their ears and looking at each other,' went on the Mole; 'and the Sergeant said to them, "Never mind HER; she doesn't know what she's talking about
40. When the other animals came back to luncheon, very boisterous and breezy after a morning on the river, the Mole, whose conscience had been pricking him, looked doubtfully at Toad, expecting to find him sulky or depressed
41. There was a light but sharp pricking beneath the fur across his back
42. He could no more resist pricking the conceits, the hypocrisies and the flamboyant patriotism of those about him than a small boy can resist putting a pin into a balloon
43. She could distinguish nothing but a strength came again the pricking of fear
44. Rostov’s horse was also getting restive: it pawed the frozen ground, pricking its ears at the noise and looking at the lights
45. This horse that had carried the sovereign at reviews in Russia bore him also here on the field of Austerlitz, enduring the heedless blows of his left foot and pricking its ears at the sound of shots just as it had done on the Empress’ Field, not understanding the significance of the firing, nor of the nearness of the Emperor Francis’ black cob, nor of all that was being said, thought, and felt that day by its rider
46. Good, now I am pricking myself on the tongue of my buckle
47. By the pricking of my thumbs,
48. The figure at the stake was very still, yet the black warriors were but pricking it
49. But not a bit daunted, Queequeg steered us manfully; now sheering off from this monster directly across our route in advance; now edging away from that, whose colossal flukes were suspended overhead, while all the time, Starbuck stood up in the bows, lance in hand, pricking out of our way whatever whales he could reach by short darts, for there was no time to make long ones
50. Yes, I have heard something curious on that score, sir; how that a dismasted man never entirely loses the feeling of his old spar, but it will be still pricking him at times