...Grasping the perpendicularsurface of the bank with their claws, and steadying themselvesby means of their tails they commence operations by pricking a smallhole with their bills... 
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...And anon the yeoman came pricking after as fast as ever he might, and asked SirPercivale if he saw any knight riding on his black steed...
Thomas Malory 「Le Morte D’Arthur, Volume II (of II)」
...The knight without delay goes pricking through the forest, and my lord Gawain follows in pursuit of him with all speed, until he reaches the bottom of a hill...
Chretien DeTroyes 「Four Arthurian Romances」
...You mustn't think that because your conscience is pricking you everyone else's is...
Henry Lawson 「Children of the Bush」
...And meditatively pricking her needle in and out of the window-curtain,Polly fell into a reverie over her husband and his ways...
Henry Handel Richardson 「Australia Felix」
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