STAMFORD Avon Theater "By the Pricking of My Thumbs," directed by Pascal Thomas.
Fee fo fum, by the pricking of my thumb… 'Witches and Wicked Bodies' is at the British Museum, London WC1 (britishmuseum.org), until 11 January.
Hence the publisher's joy in the first novelist, the only kind of writer whose talents, inflated by the oxygen of hype, cannot be deflated by the pricks of the book trade.
The talk at meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the G20 is whether the next financial crash will be caused by the pricking of the carbon bubble – the idea that the stock-market valuation of fossil fuel companies has been inflated by overestimating the worth of reserves of oil, coal and gas that could only be exploited by putting the climate at risk.
You see the prick of hypocrisy here, right?
A photograph of a young woman wrapped in the same ribbon, a common sewing pin attaching the cloth to her skin, is made exquisite by the tiniest prick of sadomasochism.
But assured by the sudden prick of white light, we paddled farther, and faster, toward it.
There are already signs that individuals, who ran down their savings to historically low levels in order to play the stock market during its heady rise, have reacted to the pricking of the bubble by saving more.
Statewide, 212 sentinel flocks of 10 white leghorn hens each were bled biweekly by lancet prick of the comb and samples mailed to the Viral and Rickettsial Diseases Laboratory, California Department of Health Services, where they were screened for antibody by WEEV or WNV/SLEV antigens with an EIA (17).
Serum and dried blood spots (DBS) were obtained by venipuncture and by finger prick of 19 pregnant women.
