All this being somewhat commonplace, you may wish to get closer to this subject, and your friend at last, driven to bay, comes to the real point that pricks and distresses him.
"In the Border Country"
W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett
Bismarck was renewing his policy of pin-pricks.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
How it pricks my fingers!
"Girls of the Forest"
L. T. Meade