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Example sentences for: pricks

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Don't kick against the pricks,
Secretary of State James Baker, in which he urged a much heavier bombardment of Iraq than the "pin pricks" of the Gulf War.
My ears (or should I say my eyes) pricked up upon reading Robert M. Sebastian's “Red Pants” [XV, 3] wherein he cites, inter alia , Ezra Pound's Mr. Nixon: Don't kick against the pricks.
And in such indexes, although small pricks To their subsequent volumes, there is seen The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come at large.
In The Acts of the Gospels, New Testament , 9:5, Jesus says to Saul (later Paul): It is hard for you to kick against the pricks . Later, we have Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.) in Agamemnon , 1. 1624: Do not kick against the pricks . The line appears also in Pindar, Pythian Odes II, 1. 174 and in Euripides, Bacchae , 1. 795 (cited in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations , 14th edition, Little, Brown and Company, 1968, p.