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Definition of Pricklier
1. prickly [adj] - See also: prickly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pricklier
Literary usage of Pricklier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"... longer and pricklier than his beard, in which, amongst other things, he praises
and extols Italy and curses Constantinople instead, which formerly he ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1876)
"But, lo and behold, hardly can he have arrived in Greece when I get from him a
letter longer and pricklier than his beard, in which, amongst other things, ..."
3. Nature and Ornament by Lewis Foreman Day (1908)
"The buds are usually less graceful in shape than the same green involucre when
it has lost its flowers. In the pricklier kind, the cup from which the flower ..."
4. Things Seen: Impressions of Men, Cities, and Books by George Warrington Steevens, George Slythe Street (1900)
"... gap and fight the others back: longer he needed not, for the thorn-branches
never broke, but bent and then swung back tougher and pricklier than ever. ..."
5. Petrarch: A Sketch of His Life and Works by May Alden Ward (1891)
"... but scarcely has he reached his destination than I get from him a letter longer
and pricklier than his beard, in which he praises Italy and curses ..."
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