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Then again, that threat could act as a prod to keep the recalcitrants in line.
It has to work hard to prod the beast into motion, and you can feel that from the driver's seat.
Poppa had a glass prod inside the tank, poking at her and recording her ferocity.
Another case for their records, another freak they can ogle and prod like a piece of meat in a butcher's shop.
If you prod the meat with a blunt implement, you will discover cooked meat has a different feel to uncooked meat.
You offer lively, informative, interesting, and, yes, controversial articles that stir the soul and prod the mind.
I've done what I could, which obviously is not much, to prod the country to move on the drug war.
In September I had the opportunity to visit some mine sites, and watch manual deminers prod the ground every two centimeters to locate mines.
Most participants dissented from time to time and said they did not want to go on, but the researcher would prod them to continue.
They advise and prod Orestes, Pylades, and Electra along, urging them to seek out revenge for Agamemnon's death.
With appropriate physical gentleness, have a poke and a prod and check out the territory.
I gave the house sale a good poke and prod today and it sounds as if the urgency of our situation has got through.
The main purpose of my wee trip was to see my Uncle John and give him a poke and prod prior to his heart surgery.
Yet conscience continues to prod us over past unreconciled differences, and memories betray our self-assured surface.
That could cost them, along with Chrysler, more market share and prod them to move more of their own production offshore.
United's Chris Smith spotted a half-chance and raced in to steal possession and prod the ball home.
Then we would prod him with a question or encourage him with praise until slowly, piece by piece, the dream took shape for us.
The August 28, 1963 March on Washington was planned to prod a reluctant Congress to enact a comprehensive civil rights bill.
Perhaps this is what prompted Veblen's letter to prod Moore into dropping the matter and finalizing his dissertation for publication.
So it is imperative for all of us, in one way or another, to prod and encourage both partners to sit down.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Then again came the prod of his instinct and the warning of past experience.
Mrs. garth emphasized her sentiment with a gentle prod of her son's breast.
Used to forcing issues used to gripping men and things and bending them to his will, he felt, now, the same compulsive prod of mastery.
We felt the prod of gregarious instinct, the drawing together as though for united action, the impulse toward cooperation.
Too deep-sunk was he to dream of escape or feel the prod of desire to escape.
Using their disclosure as a prod I could have made him jump through hoops.
He was roused again by a prod of a sword, and bidden to stand up.
That officer picked up a pitchfork and began to prod the hay.
He stepped close to the ape-man, and, seizing a spear from the hands of one of the savages, was the first to prod the helpless victim.
It is wonderful how a mite of laudation will prod us to be more worthy.
Hand me up the two first joints of a masheer rod, and I'll prod it.
I felt a prod at the back of my neck, and turned dizzy with the shock.
He knew the prod of impulse to join in this rush away from some unthinkably catastrophic event that impended and that stirred his intuitive apprehensions of death.
We rushed forward in terror, and as we drew near we saw the brawny warrior making dig after dig at the prostrate Good, who at each prod jerked all his limbs into the air.
This plaintive look always came into our eyes when we did not understand a thing, or when we felt the prod of some vague and inexpressible desire.
Lay your beast alongside, Toomai, and let him prod with his tusks.
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