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Updated: June 7, 2025
They may not be entitled to it, but it tickles their ribs and gets you the reputation, of being an intelligent young officer." "But I say," announced Waddell plaintively, "I saluted a man with a red hat the other day, and he turned out to be a Military Policeman!" "As a matter of fact," announced the pundit Struthers, after the laughter had subsided, "you need not salute anybody.
The bitterness of the Anemones, the sentimentality of the Violets, the schoolgirlishness of the Snowdrops, the domesticity of the Sweetpeas all this tickles the palate of the adult, but does not belong to the place of the normal child.
But when any nation sticks spurs in our flanks, and tickles our heels with a straw, we come down stiff-legged in front, our ears look to the beautiful beyond, our voice is cut loose, and is still for war, and our subsequent end plays the snare drum on anything that gets in reach of us, and strikes terror to the hearts of all tyrants. So does the mule.
It no longer went to the heart but to the brain. Dryden's poetry does not make the tears start to our eye or the blood come to our cheek, but it flatters our ear with its smoothness and elegance; it tickles our fancy with its wit.
"Go on," he said; "get it all out of your system, now that you're started." "And then it tickles a fellow's vanity to be seen with them at the restaurants. That's the way it begins, you know. I'll be perfectly frank with you. If it wasn't for what the other fellows say, most of the chorus-ladies would go hungry.
He grinned and offered me a cigar. 'There were reasons. It don't do for you and me to advertise our acquaintance in the street. As for the shop, I've owned it for five years. I've a taste for good reading, though you wouldn't think it, and it tickles me to hand it out across the counter ... First, I want to hear about Biggleswick. 'There isn't a great deal to it.
If I'm ever handed one of them kind I won't wash it off for a month. It tickles Dicky most to death. "He-haw!" says he, so's the window panes rattle. "She said she'd do it. And she did, didn't she, eh, Skid?" Mallory couldn't prove an alibi. He was the worst rattled man I ever see, and as for blushin' he got up a color like the lady heroine in a biff-bang drama.
They carry their wit even into their cuisine. Every dish set before you at the table is a picture, and tickles your eye before it does your palate.
"I'm listening," said Julius, and gave vent to his favourite expression. "Put me wise." Tuppence thereupon related the events of the last two days. Julius's astonishment and admiration were unbounded. "Bully for you! Fancy you a menial. It just tickles me to death!" Then he added seriously: "But say now, I don't like it, Miss Tuppence, I sure don't.
The idea of meek, bald-headed little Bailey posing as proprietor of anything while his wife is on deck, tickles Bayport's sense of humor. The perspiring delinquents panted into the yard of the perfect boarding house and tremblingly opened the door leading to the dining room. Dinner was well under way, and Mrs.
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