prickings

Or in a higher sense, it is easier for Christ to suffer for those who love Him, than for the lovers of this world to turn to Christ; for under the name of camel, He wished Himself to be understood, because He bore the burden of our weakness; and by the needle, He understands the prickings, that is, the pains of His Passion.

Catena Aurea - Gospel of Mark 1225?-1274 1842

I left Sir Henry behind, therefore, not without some prickings of conscience, and drove off upon my new quest.

The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 2010

At the edge of the woods, she stopped, feeling the first prickings of caution.

Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007

She knew that things were serious when, after his third mention of Pamela in one evening, she said that it was as well for him that she felt no painful prickings from Jealousy, the green-eyed monster.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

He had hesitated on the brink of the Parisian Rubicon, and in spite of the prickings of ambition, he still clung to a lingering tradition of an old ideal — the peaceful life of the noble in his chateau.

Father Goriot 2003

Egyptians, together with all those who inhabit the Erythraean confines, and dwell along the shores and coasts of the Red Sea, some sour prickings and smart stingings in his arms and legs of those little speckled dragons which the Arabians call meden.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Egyptians, together with all those who inhabit the Erythraean confines, and dwell along the shores and coasts of the Red Sea, some sour prickings and smart stingings in his arms and legs of those little speckled dragons which the Arabians call meden.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Six tiny prickings of the table's surface, and then a bound into the middle of the hex.

Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995

His analysis is rich in the variety of terms invoked; for example, he tells us that by “feelings” he has in mind what people may describe as thrills, twinges, pangs, throbs, wrenches, itches, prickings, and so on.

HAPPINESS AND PLEASURE ABRAHAM EDEL 1968

From this, also, there should be two or three prickings out, the first to be transferred to a bit of hard ground, covered with about three inches of rich mulchy stuff, in the warmest spot that can be found, and the last to a similar bed on the coldest spot in the garden.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons