He sprang up on his hind legs, resting his fore paws on her hip and at the same time licking Skiff Miller's hand.
The animal dragged itself reluctantly out of his way, licking its chops with a tongue which seemed hardly to have the strength to curl.
When the latter shook hands with Walt, Wolf repeated his act, resting his weight on Walt and licking both men's hands.
Roland, she'll make you do all the finger-licking part of the business," jocosely cried the Colonel after them.
He would stand and take any licking you offered and never utter a sound but give a bark of defiance when you were done, and he would bear you no ill will in the world and repeat his offence at the next opportunity.
I managed to stop him, somehow, and to free the poor beast from his implement of torture, and left him licking his wound by the roadside, while I caught two of the boys and thrashed them soundly.
When he got too excited, she scrambled up a may-tree, and sat licking herself in placid triumph, while the terriers barked below.
So she climbed up the tree, licking her chops all the way and thinking of the fat young birds.
He’ll take a licking from my hands if he doesn’t look out!
Yonder big bear is licking his chops to devour you.
The little dog stood licking at her hands and face.
They did start home, at a gallop, Sim half unconscious of what he did, carrying in his arm an excited puppy, impetuously licking his new master's hands and face.
The Spitfires slid closer together, bunched like darting swallows, their flaming breath licking into the night.
They were less than fifty feet from the Heinkel, when her tank cut loose and billows of smoke and flame rolled up, licking at the grass and brush.
The fight out there above the waters was a terrible thing, and the Americans fought and died like men inspired, yet inexorably the winged armada of Moyen, preceded by those licking golden tongues, was moving landward.
There was a cat-like licking of the lips as he contemplated the pitiful picture before him.
The flames shot up with terrible swiftness, licking up the side of the red pine house with lightning rapidity.
The sick queen was immediately surrounded by a dense circle of her subjects, those next to her licking her with their tongues and endeavoring to raise her to her feet.
As soon as the mother entered the box in which her young had been placed, she proceeded to examine them, nosing them about and licking them.
The nursing is effected by licking the surface of the eggs, which under the influence of this process increase in size, or grow.
I'll do my best, sir," said the boy, licking up his tears.
There was scarcely a ruffle on the water; only a huge slow heaving, as of some monster breathing deeply, and licking its lips before an orgie.
But I had a last sight of a horde of soldiery rushing up the slopes of the Mountain, with a scum of surge billowing at their heels, and licking many of them back in its clutch.
Sandy, lickinghis lips, and he went to work with a will.
They found Tam sitting on the doorsteplicking his paw and howling.
To this day I sometimes see him, when asleep, licking his lips and going through the action of masticating imaginary food.
Claviger secretes a liquid very much appreciated by ants, who are continually occupied inlicking its back.
When licking itself, the horse carries them into its mouth, and afterwards swallows them with his food, by which means they enter the stomach.
