pricks

• The pin-pricks, as Brent Scowcroft calls them, have started. —  Blogrunner
• How many more pin-pricks are you going to stand for, before you finally have had enough? —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
• Do not little naggings, constantly touching him with the whip, or jerking at the reins, fret and worry him much more than the labor of drawing the carriage It is the little pin-pricks, the petty annoyances of our everyday life, that mar our comfort and happiness and rob us of more strength than the great troubles which we nerve ourselves to meet. —  Pushing to the Front
• Always on the watch, was Tim, for galled spots, chafing sores, hoof-pricks, and things like that. —  Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle
• Let the nations avoid inflicting pin-pricks, and leave each other free to breathe the air. —  Before the War

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