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Your remarkable example of responsible and dynamic journalism is pricking the conscience of America.

From Time Magazine Archive

When that question was finally out, every man heaved a sigh of relief, straightening in his place like a dog that is pricking his ears, and there was a pause.

From The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest by Liljencrantz, Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina)

A night or so may seem to matter little, When I’ve already lost full fifteen-year: But I hear the owls call: and my fur’s a-tingle: The Haggard blood is pricking in my veins.

From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson

The fiery Duke is pricking fast across St. Andre's plain, With all the hireling chivalry of Guelders and Almayne.

From English Songs and Ballads by Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)

"Oh," she exclaimed, "something is pricking my throat!"

From St. Peter's Umbrella by Mikszáth, Kálmán