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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
prick .
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Examples
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This, however, do all poets believe: that whoever pricketh up his ears when lying in the grass or on lonely slopes, learneth something of the things that are betwixt heaven and earth.
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He that pricketh the eye, bringeth out tears: and he that pricketh the heart, bringeth forth resentment.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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He that pricketh the eye, bringeth out tears: and he that pricketh the heart, bringeth forth resentment.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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But what shall be the buckeler of my shame, if not my youthly age, which pricketh me forewarde to loue like a sharpe nedle, the force whereof I haue so ofte repelled, as nowe being vanquished,
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Nay, more than that, being in 'great haste she pricketh none but hirselfe which causeth hir to runne when she would rest.'
The Bibliotaph and Other People Leon H. Vincent
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He that pricketh the eye, bringeth out tears: and he that pricketh the heart, bringeth forth resentment.
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He that pricketh as if with thorns men by means of hard and cruel words, thou must know, ever carrieth in his mouth the Rakshasas.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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"My eyes -- but sleep pricketh me," the first guard said.
The Coming of the King Bernie Babcock
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We presume Mr Horne believes he has authority for applying "so pricketh hem nature in hire corages" to the folks that "longen to go on pilgrimages" -- and not to the "smalè foulès."
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various
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He that pricketh the eye, bringeth out tears: and he that pricketh the heart, bringeth forth resentment.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision
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