prick of

And with the thought came a tiny prick of fear.

Then she felt the prick of a needle and told him so.

They were distant, those pricks of light in the night.

But she could not stop the pricking of her conscience.

He felt the prick of a needle in his skin.

I only knew pricks of light soon began to invade my mind.

That was in those days, but even then, I had some pricks of conscience.

Some prick of caution kept him from using his real title.

He felt the first prick of the point, but did not wince.

When I looked up at the sky, it was dark enough to show a pricking of early stars.

The prick of light fell slowly enough to track easily.

She frowned a little and felt a prick of anxiety.

"You sure seem to love that prick of your brother's.

She struggled, but then felt the prick of a knife at her side.

Again that small prick of resentment from which she was never entirely free.

I was not only startled but felt a sudden prick of fear.

He began to fell little pricks of water behind the eyelids.

Again the prick of the needle, and I fought it.

I could feel the prick of her long nails-claws, really.

Then there was only the dark sea below and the bright pricking of the stars above.

Seeing those, I found memory stirred, a small prick of fear.

But Maria could see from the pricking of his ears that he, too, wanted to know.

Perhaps he felt the prick of a needle, but if so it seemed dull and far away, nothing to do with him.

By the pricking of my thumb/Something wicked this way comes.

You go and make a complete prick of yourself.