How To Use Prick In A Sentence

The clergyman and his son pricked up their ears at this, photography being with them only a degree less absorbing a pastime than that of walking; Ron awoke suddenly to the remembrance that his half-plate camera had never been unpacked since his arrival; and the three vied with each other in asking questions about the proposed excursion, and in urging that a date should be fixed. Big Game A Story for Girls
Over Fate of Georgia, Provinces With Russian forces appearing to hunker down in Georgia, U.S. and European officials now face a pricklier challenge: Moscow's insistence that it has the right to help break up the country. U.S.-Russia Relations Turn Cold
He has a triangular version of Rupert's stylised muzzle with the same pricked ears and bright black-button eyes.
In the split second that their gazes locked, that same prickly sensation consumed his mind as if the blood flow to his brain had suddenly been cut off.
Common knapweed is like a pretty thistle without prickles. Times, Sunday Times

Often had little Emit heard the sounds at night - sharp sounds that pricked at his ears and his temples.
After a while, the prickly feeling of anxiousness dulls and turns blunt.
At the May state dinner for Mexican President Felipe Calderón, prickly pear cactus showed up in vermeil wine coolers, and Dowling also tucked a few among the in the centerpieces of fuchsia roses and Cattleya orchids. White House florist shows Obamas' relaxed style
Yorkshire folk turned prickly yesterday after a wild flower charity announced that the common harebell had replaced the white rose as the county's floral emblem.
Now he puts the light sounds with something else remembered, with primrose, with laughter, and down through him a prickle runs and it seems to stop in his belly, below him.
We kept driving, past cedar thickets and a pasture studded with blooming prickly pear cactus.
Lord Coke does not assign that reason, but says, because they hold their bishopricks of the king _per baroniam_. Notes and Queries, Number 49, October 5, 1850
The reptile's prickly skin repels nearly all of its predators.
At the sound he snorted with a sudden start that jerked him through the air from water to meadow, and his feet sank into the young velvet, while he pricked his ears and again scented the air. All Gold Cañon
With a simply prick of a needle; he had enough blood to test.
The prickling in my feet comes and goes, and I'm tippy and dizzy every so often, but nothing is too bad right now.
Tears pricked Martha's eyes as she hugged Tanya back.
I finned madly for the surface, and was told off very severely for making an ascent like a pricked balloon.
When mixed in among boundary plants it may even enhance security as the branches bear hooked prickles which reduce its tactility.
Many of the species native to California, such as the prickly chaparral, rely on fires to propagate.
The entrepreneur has a prickly relationship with the City. Times, Sunday Times
The fruit from the prickly pear - a cross between kiwi fruit and a ripe pear - is wonderful.
Four hundred species of flowers, including Indian paintbrushes, prickly poppies, flowering herbs, and the most compelling blossom of all - the bluebonnet, the Texas state flower.
Sir Nathaniel, will you hear an extemporal epitaph on the death of the deer? and, to humour the ignorant, I have calld the deer the princess killed, a pricket. Act IV. Scene II. Love’s Labour’s Lost
His condemnation of violence and wealth, of government repression and church hypocrisy, brought him administrative pinpricks and excommunication.
Bad enough when a guy has no stamina ... let alone just wanting you to stand there while he "strums" on his pricktar. heheheh Dlisted - Be Very Afraid
Plant prickly hedges such as pyracantha, holly or hawthorn to deter thieves and add sturdy trellis to fence panels to make fences more difficult to climb over. IcNewcastle
The eyes were open—grotesquely oversize in his emaciated face, and bright yellow, the pupils as small as pinpricks—from which dribbled ocherous tears the consistency of curd. The Curse of the Wendigo
Only one thing remained constant: An endless sheet of pinpricked night. A BEDTIME STORY FOR BREEZY • by Kevin Shamel
Luckily, Mary finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth Philpot, a recent exile from London, who also loves scouring the beaches. WEEKLY BOOK RELEASES FOR JANUARY 3RD | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
He told me of one disciplinary action where students had to carry timber in bare feet across an oval, which had a lot of bindi-eye in the turf (bindi-eye is a particularly unpleasant little prickle which blooms around October in these parts).
A needle pricks my arm and slowly all my muscles begin to relax.
His sometimes prickly personality could work against him.
On Jupiter, it blows material clear out of the atmosphere but is nevertheless a mere pinprick to the giant planet.
They crept and crawled, oozed and slithered from the clay, prickly spiders and sneaky snakes and pesky lizards darting from th ... read more crafts A Michoacan tradition: the needlework artistry of Hermelinda Reyes
And before that, Roman noodges used the Latin pungere, “to prick, poke, urge.” The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
For just a moment Silver felt a prickle of unease about her choice of this man, but it was too late for doubts now.
Examples of these endemic cacti are the lava cactus (Brachycereus nesioticus) and prickly pear cacti (Opuntia echios and O. helleri). Galápagos Islands xeric scrub
She felt a needle prick her tender skin.
He did this sitting down, and he stood up to do it; and all the while the dog sat in the snow, its wolf-brush of a tail curled around warmly over its forefeet, its sharp wolf-ears pricked forward intently as it watched the man. To Build a Fire
And I say, the pollusion holds in the exchange; for the moon is never but a month old: and I say beside that, 'twas a pricket that the princess killed. Love's Labour's Lost
With a sewing needle from her bedside table, Marylyn pricked her finger and squeezed it until two drops of blood fell onto the sheets.
She applied a little pressure for a moment, sure it wouldn't bleed much more since it was only a little prick, then looked up at Alex.
It seemed incredible, yet it was true; it was proved to be so to me by his pricking his ears and his attentive look at the mention of the word prepossessing him in relation to the money: Government. The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 8
Dr. Nair wheedled, and often pricked, the group to bring out their concerns and knowledge about the needs and demands of adolescence.
At night, light from the interior radiates out in thousands of shimmering pinpricks, like a spectacularly illuminated porcupine.
It's also worthwhile surrounding your pots and trays with netting (or prickly holly clippings) to prevent these rodents digging up the seeds.
It is a tall plant up to 3ft high and the flower head is just as prickly as a thistle.
Even though a prickly pear may be visibly spineless, the glochids on paddles and fruits remain just as nasty.
Timon's eyes narrowed to pinpricks, and his face grew dark.
The man drew on his cigarette and exhaled, his porcine eyes shrinking to pinpricks as they fixed themselves on Abel. AMAGANSETT
For the grapefruit confit: In a pot, combine grapefruit sections, water and sugar and cook on low until the peel is tender when pricked.
The Old Course wasn't built, it simply evolved, a combination of scrubby seaside turf, wispy grasses, prickly gorse and rolling dunes.
‘No,’ said Echo, beginning to feel tiny needle pricks in her eyes.
The reptile's prickly skin repels nearly all of its predators.
The extinct mammoths ate mainly grasses, sedges, and other riparian plants, salt bush, prickly pear, and even some needles of blue spruce.
One of the newer hangover cures on the block, people have in fact been eating prickly pear cactus for hundreds of years. The Sun
Her healing stomach itched and prickled with a stinging burn.
The air was cool; her skin prickled from the air and from fear.
I'm going to give your finger a little prick with this needle.
The rough cloth prickled my skin.
My doctor told me that it was prickly heat, which rather surprised me. M.E. and You - a self-help plan
I left the door and went back to the window, trying to ignore my skin prickling in expectation that someone would burst in at any minute.
He has even come up with the idea of subcontracting prickly subjects to others, to try to get them to "own" any change. The Economist: Correspondent's diary
Many sufferers complain the daily pricking of their fingers is more painful than having an injection due to the mass of nerve endings at their fingertips.
Feeling a sudden prick of danger, someone having stopped to offer her speedier passage to Portans, she felt the impulse to go for her dagger, but resisted and turned around at a calm rate.
He felt a pricking sensation in his throat.
The montage of icons does cohere into a sort of meta-icon perhaps, of dogs that are (for me) short-haired, middling-sized, with dark-brown fur; but this is … a sort of cubist collage of perspectives that spills out beyond its casual frame, each dog a Cerberus with three heads superimposed one over the other, snub-nosed and long-snouted, ears pricked and flattened, slavering and not slavering. Archive 2009-07-01
Maddock felt his eyes prickle with emotion as looked at the fallen man in front of him, but he reminded himself that now wasn't the time.
Tears pricked Melissa's eyes at the scorn in Marsey's voice and for a moment she looked as if she would crumble.
Sideoats grama, buffalo grass, sagebrush, yucca and prickly pear cactus are also common on the canyon floor and walls.
The dog's ear pricked up at the sound.
He certainly pricked up his ears when you told him about your good luck.
One of the newer hangover cures on the block, people have in fact been eating prickly pear cactus for hundreds of years. The Sun
One vacation she was given a holiday job in the palace gardens, pricking out marigolds.
He prick the blister on his heel with a sterilize needle.
I am conscious even yet of the thrills that pricked my spine, as this monster with nineteen companions spurned the earth in a mad, rushing leap out into space and sailed away into the night to let the inhabitants of German towns know that "frightfulness" was a game at which two could play. The Fight for the Argonne Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man
M. Naudin states, that a certain kind of furze or thistle, of which cattle are very fond, may be made to grow without thorns -- an important consideration, seeing that at present, before it can be used as food, it has to undergo a laborious beating, to crush and break the prickles with which it is covered. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852
but then the possessiveness and competition, ingrained in us from early childhood, from preschool even, is like a thorn in our side which pricks every time a foreigner is seen.
By the way, unlike the French, con's American equivalent would be the masculine organ, prick, and schmock is, I think, probably derived from German schmuck (jewel); that is to say, "the family jewel. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
(There is one odd scene, when Salinger is pricked on the back of his neck - the same wound that killed his partner - that lacks any kind of discernable payoff). AndPOP.com
He felt tears pricking his eyes again, and brushed them away.
Some prickly problems of racial and economic accessibility that one senses when visiting the country's galleries and museums were nowhere in evidence.
I felt its coarse hairs prickle my neck ... Smell of wet earth ... My belly writhed.
Posted on: Tuesday, 1 December 2009, 12: 03 CST The antibiotic, called azithromycin, is effective in treating infections such as syphilis, Chlamydia and Ureaplasma urealyticum - a The heel prick test has changed many lives since it was introduced in the Republic in 1966 for all newborn babies LIKE MOST parents, Karen Wood knew the heel prick test was routine WN.com - Articles related to A quarter of all children overweight or obese when they start primary school
Pilot seniority is paramount to the pilot group as a whole, and the Flight Options CEO is letting the pilots themselves solve this prickly problem.
Once, out picking blackberries, he over-reached and fell headlong into the prickly bramble.
Harris and Snelling were placed under keepers, who amused themselves by tormenting their unhappy prisoners in various ways; such as pricking them with their knives, cutting off small pieces of their ears and fingers, and pulling out clumps of their hair. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2
The city of Taos lies on the edge of the high desert in the Carson National Forest, amid squat juniper trees, prickly scrub grasses and towering evergreens.
_second glume_ is as long as the first, oblong, coriaceous, keeled, with hyaline and ciliolate margins, 1-nerved (sometimes 3-nerved, marginal faint), and with minute prickles on the keel. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Irritated summer skin is usually caused by clogged sweat ducts, a condition called prickly heat or miliaria, or by exposure to poison ivy, oak or sumac.
They lead into pine forests as well as impressive stands of coastal sage scrub and chaparral communities notable for Mojave yuccas, prickly pear, and agaves.
Like most four-year-old boys, George left his house like a pebble from a slingshot, careening off parked cars, brownstone gates, fences placed to protect young trees (apparently not just from urinating dogs), and pedestrians prickly from too little coffee or too much workaday dread. Excerpt: The Whole World Over by Julia Glass
The nurse pricked my finger to get a small blood sample
They crept and crawled, oozed and slithered from the clay, prickly spiders and sneaky snakes and pesky lizards darting from the dark wet dough, turtles swimming to its surface, bug-eyed devils rising from the mud, all brought to life by the magic touch of Antonia Cruz Rafael. Antonia Cruz Rafael: the ceramics of Ocumicho, Michoacan
Next time you are faced with one of those really irritating and chronic ‘pains-in-the-ass’ – just think; “Prickle, prickle, prickle …” on July 29, 2009 at 12: 24 am Burbage Police Use Naughty Word *SHOCK* « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
The prickle of a ward rushed over me, and I felt myself wincing in expectation. Crossed
Two hours after digesting this rabbit food, I had to prick myself to monitor my blood sugar to see how my body had absorbed what, by my standards, could hardly be called a decent lunch.
Nicole's skin prickled with the emotion that she felt radiating from Jadelyn.
Tears pricked her eyes, her cheeks looked flushed, and she hung up the phone without another word.
The word prick-song occurs not only in all the musical books, but in the literature of the time, and in Sabbath in Puritan New England
All patients were atopic, as defined by two or more positive skin prick tests to common allergens.
I take great pleasure in pricking each berry with a needle in several places then dropping them into a bottle with sugar and gin, but others like to freeze the sloes in a plastic bag then bash them hard with a hammer or rolling pin. Nigel Slater's classic sloe gin recipe
Avoid man-made fibres which could make prickly heat worse. The Sun
The sudden prick in his arm wasn't enough to shake his thoughts and he jerked away from it.
This simple procedure can give some relief to the prickly, inflamed nasal passages. The Hayfever Handbook - a summer survival guide
All about us billowed a profusion of wild beauty; and though for a long time there was nothing alive in sight except a flock of bright pink sheep, my stage-managing fancy called up knights of the round table, "pricking" o'er the downs on their panoplied steeds to the rescue of fair, distressed damsels. Set in Silver
He can feel about two-thirds of the normal sensation of being touched and half of the usual intensity of pinpricks.
She felt the corner of her eyes prickle and her nose tingled as tiny tears slipped down her cheek, mingling with the blood.
Yes, they say five fingers aren't alike but the pricky Simon like American Idol judges of today forget to count their own times of execrable acts. Are Women Toys?
Due to the proposed similarity in function among thorns, spines, and prickles, we will hereafter generically refer to all plants bearing them as armed.
Prick the bottom of the shell all over with a fork this is called docking. THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK
Each leaf or folio has two pages and these were normally marked out for the text and any illumination by a process of pricking and ruling using a variety of instruments.
Red roses might melt your lover's heart, but they present a prickly problem unless your wallet is loaded.
People pricked by errant needles can get specialized treatment at the Post Exposition Centre of the St-Luc Hospital.
I could feel tears pricking the corners of my eyes, threatening to spill out again.
Actually, he reflected, Hannah Zachal was a handsome woman, despite her prickly personality.
The lamb rolls fall apart with the first prick of the fork.
She saw Jesica turn away as the sharp prick of teeth caused her blood to flow.
And I say the pollusion holds in the exchange, for the moon is never but a month old; and I say beside that twas a pricket that the princess killed. Act IV. Scene II. Love’s Labour’s Lost
They started out with Prickle-Eye Bush from their first recording, six years ago, and were joined on stage by a sword swallower, before treating Cold Blows the Wind to an arrangement that mixed jazzy swing from the brass section with edgy playing from the three fiddlers. Bellowhead/Baghdaddies – review
Candlesticks unearthed at Jamestown include a large brass pricket holder, one made of New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America
Do these actions - pinpricks on the hides of huge corporate behemoths - have any broader meaning?
Fee jammed her finger into a small hole, wincing as a needle pricked it, and a drop of blood fell on the DNA scanner.
The memory jolted me and fresh tears pricked my eyes.
She felt a prickle of fear as she realized that she was alone.
Indeed the wide diffusion of letters in the States, that favourite theme for boasting and bragging over the unenlightened and analphabetic Old World, has tended only to exaggerate the defective and disagreeable side of a national character lacking geniality and bristling with prickly individuality. Arabian nights. English
Vegetation is mostly mid and tall grasses such as seacoast bluestem, switchgrass, gulfdune paspalum, fringeleaf paspalum, sandbur, purple threeawn, pricklypear, and catclaw with an overstory of southern live oak and honey mesquite trees. Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
My own horse is too old to hunt any longer but whenever the local hunt is nearby, he pricks his ears, snorts and canters around the field, wanting to join in too!
The thistle is armed with sharp prickles; the mallow is soft and woolly. Hymns in Prose for Children
I did the same, making no further advances to him, though, as I recalled how I hammered his body and head, and how he must have been pricked by falling into the gooseberry bush, I felt sorry, and if he had offered to shake hands I should have forgotten how grubby his always were, and held out mine at once. Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden
I felt the hot, prickly sensation I got when I was nervous.
When I placed my hands in the hot water it felt as if thousands of needles were prickling them.
Even if your pediatrician peels 13 layers of clothing off your baby in order to diagnose his prickly heat rash and then submerses him in a vat of cool water to prevent him from spontaneously combusting, you should put a hat on that baby. While we’re waiting « knitnut.net
Hurling the kickball into the pricker bushes instead of sacking up and playing the game. Bob Cesca: Killing the False Equivalency "Both Sides" Meme
The tone of the keyboard was brassy, the passage-work prickly. Times, Sunday Times
The word "brier" or "briar" has no connexion whatever with the prickly, thorny briar which bears the lovely wild rose. The Social History of Smoking
Power radiates from it, cold and razor-thorned, prickles against her skin, her face. Black Dust Mambo
Frances seemed close with all the female realtors we met, though with the men, she was pricky, all business, acted as though she'd never met them before. Last Open
With ears pricked, eyes were focused just two days later for Minstermen watchers of BBC's less sedate They Think It's All Over.
Indeed, had she and Colonel Leek been sharing confidential affections, he might have felt a prick of jealousy.
Instead, Obama is sending a pin prick which will do nothing but provide more targets for the Taliban and higher US casualties and have SQUAT effect on the overall war. Matthew Yglesias » More Troops to Afghanistan
Mesquite and prickly pear, agave and tall, bloomed-out stalks of sotol gave a sparse shade for the baking land. THIS TIME LOVE
He has a moral compass, however wonky, and is a great pricker of adult pretensions. Times, Sunday Times
Ellaine didn't have time for this annoying prick.
Because of its prickles the Boers call the mimosa the "wait-a-bit" thorn, but there was no thought of waiting a bit among the 12th Lancers at the Berea, when they charged the savage Basutos and captured their chief Moshesh. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
Let us have it out, and then I'll kiss the place to make it well as I used to do when I took the splinters from the fingers you are pricking so unmercifully, said the doctor, anxious to relieve his pet patient as soon as possible. Rose in Bloom
She was furious, but she still carried a vague guilt, a concern that Gavin suspected she had pinpricked her diaphragm. Strangers at the Feast
My eyes are more than prickling now, they're smarting, and tears are rolling down my cheeks.
Fans of the stuff are masonically loyal, prickling with a defensiveness and an ardor that not even Wagnerians can match. Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Comics
Sharp, clever and prickly, Gwendolen reads the days away, oblivious to dirt and decay.
He can get fat on grass burs an' prickly pear, an' some other cowhand's saddle is frosted cake to him. Bowdrie's Law by Louis L'Amour
And unlike most pressing Sino-U.S. issues-which seem to get ever pricklier as ties between the two economic giants grow more complex-the issue of pandas is pretty simple. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
CAPTAIN COOK, Hawaii—The breadfruit is a remarkable food: The prickly football-size pod is full of nutrients and energy. 'Food of the Future' Has One Hitch: It's All But Inedible
The people are prickly on the outside, but a lot friendlier once you get to know them.
It was a minor pinprick in his side that his plan had not succeeded.
A prickling sensation between my eyes made my nose run and white-hot adrenalin scalded the subcutaneous layer beneath my skin.
The hairs on the back of my neck prickled when I heard the door open.
The prickly pear is ideal food for the Collared Peccary due to its high water content. A Perfectly Good Peccary.
Besides, to shoot a mere amateur in Chouannerie would be as absurd as to fire on a balloon when a pinprick would disinflate it. The Chouans
Gooseberry bushes can be similarly pruned but take out some of the old shoots from the centre of the shrub to keep it open and to make it easier to pick the fruit from these very prickly customers.
The strange word rustled between them and the little girl felt an odd prickling beneath her skin. The Forgotten Garden
Today I've planted a tray each of curly parsley, plain parsley and chive seeds and pricked out all the rudbekia and most of the Viola (Johnny Jump Up) seedlings into modules.
You must obey the rule. It is useless for you to kick against the pricks.
A cold breeze prickled his face.
Avoid man-made fibres which could make prickly heat worse. The Sun
Ira, played by a thinned Seth Rogen now looking more geeky than beer-guzzling, has yet to be perverted by his sitcom star of a roommate (Jason Schwartzman, who specializes in prick roles and delivers one of his funniest yet). Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
The cowitch, as mentioned before, has a velvety brown covering of minute prickles, which, if touched, enter the pores of the skin and cause a painful tingling. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
When tender, the peel sinks to the bottom of the pan and you can prick it easily with a fork.
As the Roman Virginius stood with his sword pricking the flesh over the heart of his beloved daughter, so do I stand ready to destroy my offspring rather than suffer its dishonor at the hands of any Appius Claudius. The Lever A Novel
At the May state dinner for Mexican President Felipe Calderón, prickly pear cactus showed up in vermeil wine coolers, and Dowling also tucked a few among the centerpieces of fuchsia roses and cattleya orchids. The White House's new florist in chief is boldly creating blooms with a view
He prickled at the suggestion that it had been his fault.
Matters were not helped by Maeve occasionally pricking her finger with the needle, but at last she had had her say.
They had been being standing in Gayle's sitting room for nearly six hours, being continuously measured and pricked by pins and needles for clothes to be worn tomorrow.
He pricks the blister on his heel with a sterilize needle.
The day's most prickly moment surrounded one of this election year's hottest issues, and encapsulated the risky nature of an unscreened, unscripted town hall meeting.
Gant's story allowed for an interesting development in the relationship between sweet Carter and prickly Benton, a relationship that evolved over the years into a powerful bond between unequals.
Images are exposed directly onto light-sensitive paper through a tiny lens the size of a pinprick.
The trees thin and chiefly cypress, with occasionally a large sterculia, but no water whatever: at the ninth mile we entered a very thick eucalyptus brush, overrun with creepers and prickly acacia bushes. Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
FAIRFIELD - "We'll be in blackberries all day," warned my hunting companion, Andy Holt, as we forged our way through the first of many prickly patches, unsnagging branches from our blaze-orange vests. Burlingtonfreepress.com -
Seemingly knowing she was petrified, he removed his grasp, let his hand slide up her arm to tangle with her hair, and Linden felt gooseflesh prickle her skin.
These tactics were often not much more than pinpricks; more serious troubles could be brought on by traceable sabotage.
The undergrowth is often dense with dwarf palmettos and with such vines as earleaf, saw greenbriers (both very prickly), muscadine, and summer grape, all tough on hikers.
A tiny prick is made on your finger and the minute sample used to ensure that you are not anaemic or ill in any other way.
I could actually feel my body prickle, my stomach grow knuckles and my skin start to blotch and swell.
I smiled and waved back at them until they were mere pinpricks in the distance.
The preyful princess piercd and prickd a pretty pleasing pricket; Act IV. Scene II. Love’s Labour’s Lost
The pin is uncapped, but its prick is no worse than a grenade by your side, or the constant threat of sudden death.
I felt a prick of anxiety, but that was nothing compared to what I usually felt.
She felt herself prickle at his tone of voice.
Blood was obtained by heel prick.
The Zonites, a rude clan, grazing on the heads of the prickly eryngo, despise all tender preliminaries. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles
Linnaeus dubbed blackthorn Prunus spinosa because everything about it is prickly, tart, sour and generally stroppy. Wildwood
There's now again this huge industry which in your career has just expanded, and most people who've had a baby are aware that their baby has a heel prick in the first week of life before they go home, usually, or by the nurse at home.
Cabel steps carefully through pricker bushes to the dirty window and peers inside, trying to see through the tiny opening between curtains. GONE
She looked away when the nurse pricked her arm with the needle
But there was no need to await natural events: Russia rudely pricked our bubble of self-content.
The seedpod is a spiny, prickly burr and was everywhere I stepped. Eliza’s Freedom Road
Her partners are the engagingly prickly guitarist Nels Cline, the stalwart bassist Todd Sickafoose and the polymorphically propulsive drummer Jim Black. NYT > Home Page
I have nothing against thorns and prickles so long as you can admire them from a safe distance.

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