The two last humans in the world could even catch the flick of ivory fangs, the lolling wet redness of tongues--could hear the soughing breath through those infernal jaws.
He mentioned them in one of his letters to Timmy, and then, when he was in England last year, he must have stayed with them, for that's where Flick came from.
I wanted to see if Josephine would see what Flick saw--I mean if she'd see the ghost of Colonel Crofton's dog.
Flick seemed unwilling to move, so Timmy turned and called sharply:--"Flick!
I thought you didn't like dogs, Mrs. Crofton, and so I shut Flickup in your stable-yard.
I hope you've shut Flick up," she said in a low voice.
I have always regarded Flick as one of the best tempered of dogs.
Why, her husband bred terriers; Flick actually came from there!
His theory seemed to be that bothFlick and the cat did not fly at you, but at your invisible companion.
Take this note, Jack, and tell Mrs. Crofton that Flickshall be securely shut up.
It's not a dog you can see, but I see him and Flick sees him.
The little boy waited a moment, Flick panting convulsively in his arms, then he gathered the dog to him, and, getting up from the floor, walked quickly through the open window into the garden.
But Timmy was no coward, and Flick was one of the few living things he loved in the world.
Timmy got up and shook himself; then he went across to the window, Flickfollowing him, while Betty after having made two tray journeys into the kitchen, folded up the table-cloth.
Much against his will, the little boy had had to bow to the edict that Flick should be shut up in the stable.
Beneath his bended legs he would sweep his hand To capture a fuller scent as his fingers would flick To capture a fuller scent as his fingers would flick His unshaven face.
The cool, ironic little question, with its insolent indifference, checked him like the flick of a lash across the face.
Each word stung like theflick of a lash on bare flesh.
You merely had to put them on the Invertor in Surgery and flick the switch for full Inversion.
Or you could flick it for partial Inversion and turn something into a perfect three-dimensional mirror image of itself, just what a right-hand glove is of a left.
You should see that tongue of his flickout and catch an unwary fly half a foot away.
The shells occasionally fly low and take you on the head; the bullets flick through loopholes or as often take you in the back from some enfilading barricades, and thus through two agencies you can be hastened towards the Unknown.
Every window has to be bricked in partially; every entrance where bullets might flick in must be closed; and in the heat and dust of a Peking summer the stench is terrible.
There was a quiet insistence in the act that was like the flick of a whip to Mr. Galbraith's irritation.
Her mode of attack is first to enlarge on every possible ill, and reduce one to a state of collapse from pure self-pity, and then to proceed to waft the same troubles aside with a casual flick of the hand.
Now and then he paused to flick the ash from his cigarette, but he did not turn his head.
There was in his tone a touch of malice that caught Dinah very oddly, like the flick of a lash intended for another.
Another flick of her slender fingers, and Channing flew up in the air and landed on the high mantel.
With a well-aimed flick of her fingertips, Patty set Philip spinning, and it was a week later that she found him in her work-basket.
What did she care at the moment whether this invitation made Ellingham's eyes flick with anger or not.
She returned a smile that was like one of those electric advertisements which flick in and out of the sky in all really progressive American cities.
I like to fly out, perfectly tame, and with no cats about, sing a little and imagine that I am perfectly free, and then flick back, stand on a perch and do my best singing to the noise of traffic.
Little Hahsie he flick his years like he tink someb'dy ought to yust kick de stuffin' out o' Sculpat.
An' off he flick for where he seen Ole Baldy fly up.
I can still see his serious face, his unclipped head of hair, often brought back behind his ears with a flick of the thumb and spreading its ancient Gallic mane over his shoulders.
When they had gone the round, some this way and some that, they went back to the farmyard, driven away by a friendly flick of the master's handkerchief.
His leg was over the back of his favourite horse now, and she only had to give it a flick in the flank to set it galloping off with him.
It had responded to the swift flick of Hazel's quirt, and left the man without understanding, and his amorous intentions quite unsatisfied.
Come 'sev,'" he muttered again and again, as he flung the dice on the table with a flick of the fingers.
Flick had then gone over to speak to Hanson and Hanson's conversation had convinced him that Pedro was really in danger and would be arrested before the evening was over.
Hands on hips, she swung her skirts and surveyed Bob Flick and her father with a scornful, slanting gaze.
You'd have stood down by the gully all night long just to show the folks in the camp that you wouldn't stay in that cabin after there was any chance at all for you to get away," Gallito answered her before Bob Flick got a chance.
His tone was politely interested, but his errant glance strayed to where Pearl and Flick stood gazing over the vast spaces of the desert, flooded with illimitable sunshine.
He was his composed and imperturbable self, exhibiting outwardly, at least, no trace of anxiety, but Flick looked worn, almost haggard.
Fortunately, the boy did not hear her, although Bob Flick did, as she intended he should.
It was understood that Gallito had come down now to give his opinion on some claim that Flick had recently staked, and they two, usually accompanied by Hughie, would ride off over the desert and be gone two or three days at a time.
As Bob Flick whispered the scheme to the two men the gloom deepened on Gallito's face.
And, seeing this, Bob Flick turned and walked down the hill with never a backward glance.
Bob Flick was returning to the desert the next day, so she had nothing to fear from him.
You give's holt o' that whip, and I'll flick him down like I would a fly.
He jumped up angrily, and as soon as he saw that we were laughing at him, turned his back, and kicked the sand at us like a pawing horse; but Ike gave the whip a flick at him, and told him to put the sacks in the cart.
Lettice gave the sheets a flick with her white fingers.
Mr Rex laughed, and gave the horse a flick with the whip, which sent him spinning round the corner at break-neck speed.
Ay, there," said she, "in that flick lies all your fancied superiority.
While the Spaniards wheeled and raced their horses in front of him, trying to make an impression, Soto could not get so much as the flick of an eyelash out of the Black Warrior.
Over the far shore there was a continual flick and flash of wings, like a whirlwind playing with a heap of waste paper.
That mountain is but a flick of the brush; yonder lake but a wash and a ripple.
It was the needed flick of the whip for the shaken nerve of the mine-owner.
