pricking

He started playing with the fork again, pricking his thumb against its end.

This reasoning seemed to calm him; but the restlessness of doubt soon returned, pricking like thorns.

And at the memory of his voice she felt a little pricking, wounding pain under her eyelids, the birth-pang of unwilling tears.

He saw a horseman in flashing armor and blood-red turban come pricking toward them.

He can curse the expectant boots which stand holding their black mouths open at him and pricking up their ears.

At last Twinkleheels stopped and waited for him, pricking up his ears at Johnnie's whistle.