They dragged him about on the floor, pinched him, pricked him, beat him, and tormented him, but no sound escaped from him.
" When the father reached the place, there stood a briar with one rose on it, and he was about to gather the rose, when the thorn pricked his finger so that he was forced to go home again.
His mother could not suckle him, for he would have pricked her with his quills.
The faster he played, the more violent springs was she forced to make, and the thorns tore her clothes from her body, and pricked her and wounded her till she bled, and as he did not stop, she had to dance till she lay dead on the ground.
And whilst she was sewing and looking out of the window at the snow, she pricked her finger with the needle, and three drops of blood fell upon the snow.
But scarcely had she touched the spindle when the magic decree was fulfilled, and she pricked her finger with it.
The innkeeper pricked up his ears.
They had often found a button or a copper coin; but they had quite as often scratched themselves with a broken bottle, or pricked themselves with a pin, which was just now the case.
" And he brought the fairest blossom, and pricked his fingers as completely as if it had grown on the sharpest rose bush.
" After some time, the linen was taken into the house, placed under the scissors, and cut and torn into pieces, and then pricked with needles.
" she exclaimed, as something pricked her.
" cried one, as he pricked himself with the darning-needle, "here's a fellow for you.
" A few days later, the linen was cut with scissors and pricked by needles.
' She even pricked herself with the needle while she was thinking about the red shoes.
He got his hand pricked by the needle.
But all day long his thoughts were in the picture gallery; and so he pricked his fingers and was awkward.
I must have let out a big sigh, because one of them pricked up his ears and raised his head as if waiting for me to speak.
They placed themselves by the ear of the sleeper, told him dreadful dreams and then flew across his lips, and pricked his tongue with their poisoned spears.
"Cleanliness is a good thing," said she, scouring the vessel with snakes, which she had tied together in a large knot; then she pricked herself in the breast, and let the black blood drop into it.
I'm pricked and probed by what feels like knives, not needles.
