Draw blood, perhaps

Usage examples of prick.

Though you cannot want sufficient calls to repentance for the many unwarrantable weaknesses exemplified in your behaviour to this wretch, so much to the prejudice of your own lawful family, and of your character, I say, though these may sufficiently be supposed to prick and goad your conscience at this season, I should yet be wanting to my duty, if I spared to give you some admonition in order to bring you to a due sense of your errors.

Even Albacore laughed, and now the conversation became general, running like quicksilver from tongue to tongue, good thing following good thing, wisdom and wit doled out in a prodigality of plenty, and I felt tears prick my eyes at the sense of privilege and pleasure in being part of this company in this place at this time.

He stimulated him, pricked him on, and sought to encourage the remarkable aptitude for mathematics with which he believed him endowed.

Cyrus, and I saw Asteria ruefully sucking her finger where she had pricked it with the needle.

Nobel pricked up his ears and bade Reynard relate how this hoard was obtained and where it was concealed.

Miss Bede is, after all, a nineteen-year-old female and if this pricks your manly pride, so much the better.

An attorney who was present pricked up his ears, bethought him of the tales that were afloat, and gave information to the police.

Dani looked down at the baby, who was looking up at her, studying her with solemn blue eyes, and felt a prick in her heart.

At the first unhappy yowl, Bozo pricked up his ears and saw the trouble his bothersome pup had gotten into.

Strangely enough, he soon went off to sleep, fell into a state of catalepsy, and was insensible when pricked.

One morning in the midst of an unimportant and disconnected conversation, she complimented me upon my strength of mind in subduing my passion, adding, with a smile, that my desire could not have pricked me very sharply, seeing that I had cured myself so well in the course of a week.

Because everyone there was a diabetic, and they all had to prick their fingers and give themselves shots, and some of them were way worse off than she was.

Cock, sword, member, dick, wiener, knob, meat, chopper, sausage, prick, one-eyed trouser snake, pork sword, schlong, donger, winkle--the list is, if not endless, then at least impressively long.

Elusive, dealers in anything that required no great effort, ears pricking for every rumor going, sometimes drunks, seldom druggers, sometimes burnt out, sometimes disaffected, subversive in a passive way.

AAs and how they all seem like limp smug moronic self-satisfied shit-eating pricks with their lobotomized smiles and goopy sentiment and how he wishes them all violent technicolor harm in the worst way, new Gately sitting there spraying vitriol, wet-lipped and red-eared, trying to get kicked out, purposely trying to outrage the AAs into giving him the boot so he could quick-march back to Ennet House and tell crippled Pat Montesian and his counselor Gene M.