prickle

But one of the tree's prickles pierced his finger and caused great pain and inflammation, so that the young Prince fell down in a fainting fit.

‡ There is cultivated in the king's garden at Paris, a species of serpentine aloes without prickles, whose large and beautiful flower exhales a strong odour of the vanilla, during the time of its expansion, which is very short.

He was not more than three feet high, his legs were quite crooked, and all his body was covered with prickles like a hedgehog.

"Do you remember--the piano, the room in the attic, and the great plants with the prickles?"

Among them have been found the Kimiri, native of Sumatra and the peninsula of Malacca; the cocoa-nut of Balci, known by its shape and size; the Dadass, which is planted by the Malays with the pepper-vine, the latter intwining round its trunk, and supporting itself by the prickles on its stem; the soap-tree; the castor-oil plant; trunks of the sago palm; and various kinds of seeds unknown to the Malays settled on the islands.

The tone is uneven - a tug-of-war between parody and slasher pulls hardest in favour of the latter - and characterisation is painfully thin, leaving Dunn to stare eerily into the camera to prickle our fear.

Councillor Gill has chosen to support Ludlow Food Bank and Prickle Bums Hedgehog Rescue for his third term.

Qiyas Khan, a resident of Khar town, said he was unable to get even a single bottle of prickle in the utility store in Khar.

The only pain I've noticed has been a light prickle the next day, but it hardly compares with the side effects of an untreated burn, especially from hot oil.

It preserves Vinho Verde's classic lightness, freshness and effervescent prickle but surrounds it with red apple and tropical fruit components - enlivened by gentle lime acidity.