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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Startled into a panic, as all wild things are at the least suggestion of restraint, she squawked and flapped into the air. The noose tightened rebukingly and pulled her up short. "For one astounded moment she settled back onto the scarecrow's head, frightened into stillness. Then she tweaked savagely at the cord on her leg, but, of course, could do nothing with it.
Surtaine started, and winced as the movement tweaked the raw nerves of his wound. "There's nothing else to tell," he said. "You brought me here to lie for you," said the journalist. "All right, I'm ready. But if I'm to lie and not get caught at it, I must know the truth.
'Mercy on us; what will he do next? thought I, as he tweaked a feather out of his breast, gave the nib a peck, and then coolly wrote these words on the card I handed him: 'Church of the Disciples.
He would rate them as a nobleman should: "Call themselves Englishmen, indeed, and insult a woman!" he would say; take the names and addresses perhaps, threaten to speak to the Lord of the Manor, promise to let them hear from him again, and so out with consternation in his wake. It really ought to be done. "Teach 'em better," he said fiercely, and tweaked his moustache painfully. What was it?
When, therefore, he found that his utmost efforts were of no avail, and that he was perpetually goaded, and twitted, and tweaked for every little trifle, his spirit was set alight as he at last remarked in confidence to David Clazie and all the fire-engines in Europe, Asia, Africa and America couldn't put it out.
All through the reign of Abdul Hamid they persevered: Great Britain plucked his pillow from him, so to speak, by her protectorate of Egypt; Russia tweaked Eastern Rumelia from him; France deprived him of his hot-water bottle when she snatched at the Constantinople quays, and they all shook and slapped him when he went to war with Greece in 1896, and instantly deprived him of the territory he had won in Thessaly.
"What do you hear from your mother?" asked the old lady gruffly. "Father is much better," replied Jo, trying to keep sober. "Oh, is he? Well, that won't last long, I fancy. March never had any stamina," was the cheerful reply. "Ha, ha! Never say die, take a pinch of snuff, goodbye, goodbye!" squalled Polly, dancing on her perch, and clawing at the old lady's cap as Laurie tweaked him in the rear.
"Pooh, I didn't do anything," said King, modestly. "Yes, you did," said his mother. "You were fine, my son. And I never could have lived through to-day without you, either." "Dear old Kingsy-wingsy!" said Midget, looking at him with shining eyes. And then, for it was their long-established custom, she tweaked his Windsor scarf untied.
Every sitter in your studio an enemy in the house every tube of paint a silent witness of your frailty every brush stroke a delicious pain the agony of it!" She tweaked Clarissa's ear and whispered into its tip. "It's much wiser to be just a donkey, isn't it, Clarissa?" Markham grinned a little sheepishly, but like Clarissa refused to be drawn into the discussion.
The beautiful madcap who took the duchy by the ears, every now and then, and tweaked them! The princess herself, here in this lonely old castle into which I had so carelessly stumbled! Romance, enchantment!
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