Prick it and for all your trouble It has vanished in a minute.
He could hear Bowser's voice, but it was so faint that he had to prick up his sharp little ears and listen with all his might to hear it at all.
Every minute or two Peter would sit up very straight, prick up his long ears and look this way and look that way as if he expected to see something unusual.
At times, this secret consciousness marred the delight of their comradeship; at others it was almost forgotten; but Anne always felt the hidden thorn was there, and might prick her at any moment.
Two of that ilk descended upon Anne one violet dusk and proceeded to do what in them lay to prick the rainbow bubble of her satisfaction.
Jill paid no attention till he uttered a name which made her prick up her ears and listen to the broken sentences which followed.
Thank ye, sir, thank ye," said Dagley, with a loud snarling irony which made Fag the sheep-dog stir from his seat and prick his ears; but seeing Monk enter the yard after some outside loitering, Fag seated himself again in an attitude of observation.
He at once took a pin from his lapel and was going to prick his flesh, but Tom said: "Hold on!
When a compliment could keep my mind occupied for hours on end and a harsh word could prick like a pin the same skin which now seems dry and insensitive.
Ears prick up when they hear words like "Magna Cum Laude" or "Top of class" much more than when they hear "Passed all of her classes and ended up mid-level in rankings.
Today's junior prick, tomorrow's senior partner.
Prick up your ears.
I felt like a prick.
I'm afraid I have to prick your finger and take a drop of blood for blood sugar level.
You'll only feel a small prick.
When a compliment could keep my mind occupied for hours on end and a harsh word could prick like a pin the same skin which now seems dry and insensitive.
And when eleven of them had said their say, in came the uninvited thirteenth, burning to revenge herself, and without greeting or respect, she cried with a loud voice: "In the fifteenth year of her age the princess shall prick herself with a spindle and shall fall down dead.
Prick up your ears.
Prick up your ears.
1 I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other.
