The inflammation is accompanied by a marked tenderness and itching, and the animal licks and scratches the part.
Whereat Snap licks her face, and by that act vows fealty to the Doll.
They're going our way, and we've got to hit this trail somelicks to make Flynn's by noon.
I'm a lumberman born an' bred; the camps draw me like salt-licks pull the deer.
Sam as he pressed his whip across my shoulders in comforting little licks because his hand was too muddy to pat me.
The Briers is like a great, big, beautiful dog that lies there begging you to come and plow it and scratch it and hoe it and rake it, while it licks out green curly vegetable tongues for more.
A soil would prove a flow; She licks her neck, her sides and back, And don't forget her paw.
Puss And Rover Our Pussy she is white, Our Rover he is black, And yet he licks Pussy's face While she stands on his back.
It licks me at present, Jack, and that's a hard thing for an American to say.
Elaborate winks and nods; and one man positively licks his lips as he mutters: "Gosh!
You know the type of hoodlum who, with licks of hair plastered over his forehead, seems to spend his days leaning against a lamp-post.
Kitty Ricketts licks her middle finger with her spittle and, gazing in the mirror, smooths both eyebrows.
Lay you two to one Jenatzy lickshim ruddy well hollow.
And I ran up to her most polite, and licks her fingers, for I never see so pretty and kind a lady.
And when he says them kind words, I licks his hand most grateful.
Their trails may be seen leading from every direction to the great alkaline licks that abound in certain parts of their mountain-ranges.
You sit up till very late, long after Bella has gone to bed, patting his head, and wishing you could do something for poor Tray; but he only licks your hand, and whines more piteously than ever.
And he leaps upon you, and lays his paws on your shoulder, and licks your face; and is almost as glad to see you, as cousin Bella herself.
He was at the Lower Blue Licks country, where Daniel Boone was captured later, before the founding of Boonesborough.
Now they demanded that he tell his men at the licks to surrender likewise.
On the sixth day southward they were right at the heels of the Shawnees, and circuited their camp at the Blue Licks itself, only forty miles from the fort.
So on January 8 Daniel Boone led thirty men and several horses packed with large "boiling pans," to the Lower Blue Licks of the Licking River.
In the morning they all marched the few miles to the Blue Licks camp.
On the first of June the Black Fish family took him eastward to some salt lickson the Scioto River, and put him at work making salt.
Is name is Kid," and I ran up to her most polite, and licks her fingers, for I never see so pretty and kind a lady.
The dog that, when offered a piece of bread, smells it with a sleepy eye, and without taking it licks the fingers that present it, has an impaired digestion.
The animal turns its head round and licks your hand, to reward the polite attention, and solicits a continuance of your favors.
It licks any novel I ever read--and I've read a tidy few, looking after the Y.
Mish Murgatroyd had had his hair cut, and where the perspiration had partly washed his brow of its grime his two great calf-licks gleamed oilily in the shifting lantern-light.
Mish said, setting his cap back from his forehead that had a bull’s-front of rough hair over his brows, but showed two great calf-licks over his temples.
The calf-licks on either side of his bull’s-front of hair started constantly into little glistening points of sweat.
I'll give you a dollar to save you from punishment this time, but if anything of this kind ever occurs again I'll hold you while the teacher licks you, and then I'll get the teacher to hold you while I lick you.
If 'twere not that these licks give it in such abundance, 'twould try a lad's patience sorely.
Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
This love of the mother in quadrupeds to the offspring, whom she licks and cleans, is so allied to the pleasure of the taste or palate, that nature seems to have had a great escape in the parent quadruped not devouring her offspring.
There is an old saw which says, "The old cow licks her calf, and the tigress carries her cub in her mouth.
In a certain part of the country there was a well-to-do farmer, whose marriage had brought him one son, whom he petted beyond all measure, as a cow licks her calf.
We give a slave a box on the ear, if helicks the pastry.
That mangy larcenist of casual spoil, From lamps extinct thatlicks the fetid oil.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "licks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
