What is "prickled"

Usage examples of "prickled".

Rubbing away the goose bumps that prickled coldly over her arms, she stepped back into the shadows and let Ian and Susa absorb the paintings.

Silvery heat prickled over her breasts and shot straight down to her thighs at the thought of Cord undressing her.

Archer’s skin prickled in primal response to the gift Hannah took for granted.

A small, sil­vered, puckered scar on his right shoulder had to be from a gunshot wound, and her spine prickled with fear for him.

She was so still… The hair prickled on the back of his neck in warning, and without thinking he flung himself to the side, taking the blow on his shoulder instead of his neck.

Her breath became shorter, and wariness prickled along her spine again.

Tears prickled her closed eyelids as she tried to contain a happiness so acute she ached with it.

A chill prickled the length of his back as daylight brightened, revealing the contours of the land mass so narrowly evaded during the night.

Hair prickled on the back of his neck and his hands clenched reflexively into fists.

The disturbance resembled no weather pattern Telemark had ever known, and even as his hair prickled with alarm he dropped the axe and sprinted for the cabin.

In link with him, Taen felt the chills which prickled the length of her brother's spine.

Gooseflesh prickled his arms though he was not cold and his ears rang with a strange singing note like nothing he had ever experienced.

The hair on Brianna's forearms prickled slightly at the matter-of-factness in the old woman's voice.

It was a warm evening, but the down hairs on my jaw prickled at the thought of Geilie Duncan, of the stones-and of the Indian I had met on a dark hillside, his face painted black for death, just before I had found the opal, and the skull buried with it.

Gooseflesh prickled over his shoulders, chilled as much by his thoughts as by the cold stream-water.