"Tickler" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cur'ous li'l creeturs," she continued. "I bin teckin' tickler notuss un 'em dis long time, an' dey knows mo'n you'd think fer, jes' ter look at 'em. Dough dey lives down un'need de groun', yit dey is fus'class swimmers; I done seed one, wid my own eyes, crossin' de branch, an' dey kin root 'long un'need de yearf mos' ez fas' ez ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) • Various
... not the sole writer after Lockhart's removal to London, and, with rare exceptions, reduced the personages to three strongly marked and very dramatic characters, Christopher North himself, the Ettrick Shepherd, and "Tickler." All these three were in a manner portraits, but no one is a mere photograph from a single person. On the whole, however, I suspect that Christopher North is a much closer likeness, if not of what Wilson himself was, yet at any rate of what he would have liked to be, than ...
— Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 • George Saintsbury
... she, thankful like, as if she'd seen her horse win by a nose. Then she puts up the rib tickler and grabs ...
— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford
... be keerful o' dem, honey," said her mother. "Dem's de bestest an' most special hankowitches o' Mirabell's pa, an' he's very 'tickler how dey is washed. Better let me ...
— The Story of Calico Clown • Laura Lee Hope
... the war we knew nothing about hand grenades. The Germans started to use them on us, but it was not a great while before we fell into line and produced bombs to match theirs. At first we had the Tickler variety as previously described; since then we have used the "hair-brush" and others, but to-day we are using the standardized ...
— Private Peat • Harold R. Peat
... of your life, my lad, and another to make a man of thee. This little tickler hath three tails; seven threes is twenty-one—comes ...
— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore |
