prickle
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Prickle happened to be at variance with the innkeeper, and the curate durst not disoblige the vicar, who at that very time was suing the farmer for the small tithes.
From The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves by Smollett, T. (Tobias)
Prickle, the first transports of his anger having subsided, began to be pricked with the thorns of compunction; he was indeed extremely mortified at the prospect of being sent to jail so disgracefully.
From The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves by Smollett, T. (Tobias)
He said the others might be easily influenced in the way of admonition; but there was no way of dealing with Prickle, except by the form and authority of the law.
From The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves by Smollett, T. (Tobias)
Divers cottagers, who depended on farmer Prickle, were successively refused, because they could not prove that they had paid scot and lot, and parish taxes.
From The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves by Smollett, T. (Tobias)
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