tippie-toe

Updated: May 3, 2025

And then at night, Phil, at night getting up from your summonses and your warrantees, and going creeping to the lil one's room tippie-toe, tippie-toe, and 'Is she sleeping comfor'bly? thinks you; and listening at the crack of the door, and hearing her breathing, and slipping in to look, and everything quiet, and the red fire on her lil face, and 'Grod bless her, the darling! says you, and then back to your desk content.

Sir Hall Caine - The Manxman: A Novel - 1895