Perhaps he will," laughed May, much tickled with the idea that it was a fairy, and not Cousin John, who sent the cunning little creatures to her.
Grandpa took naps in the afternoon on the piazza, and he was dozing comfortably when Jocko swung down from the grape-vine by his long tail, and tickled the old gentleman on the nose with a straw.
And then, at dessert, Karel's face beamed fiery red and Cateau blinked her eyes, as though tickled to her marrow.
But he kissed her with a rain of quick little kisses, which tickled her, till she smiled.
But Addie, quite mad, caught Papa round the waist, tickled him on that sensitive spot.
A drunken man, overhearing this colloquy, hawked the saying about the streets, and the pleasantry circulated through Antioch, and being manifestly absurdtickled the popular fancy.
This ingenious puzzle tickled the palate of the Court.
I know he'll appreciate it, and be tickled almost to death.
As it is, he’s tickled to death because he thinks he put one over on us.
And maybe we’re not tickled to death about it, eh, Bobby?
This tickled the Marquis's fancy, but the devil was rather exorbitant, demanding the knight's heart and soul.
There never was one that you couldn't count on to do anything under the sun that tickled its sense of humor.
In vain they tickledhis nose and his heels; he did not stir.
This discovery at first terrified Fanny greatly; but subsequently it tickled her fancy all the more.
I'd be tickled to death to have Buck get me again.
But I just couldn't help asking the old man how the pennant race was making out, and that tickled him so much that he offered me a job here as butler if I ever wanted to make a change.
Mr. Pett's first thought was that his wife would, as he expressed it to himself, be "tickled to death about this.
And, pulling out a straw, he tickledthe boy's nose with it.
Pelle and he became good friends at once, and began to play; and then Kalle hit upon the idea of letting the other children share in the merry-making, and he and the two boys went round and tickled them awake, all the six.
She begins to praise me most unmercifully; and, while my very heart is tickled with my success, the lengthened visage of inspired quaker when the spirit moved was never more demure!
She was tickled with the contrivance, which promised to secure her so well from the suspicion of her mistress, and she acts her part tolerably.
When he was within arm's reach he tickled poor Chuck way up his nose.
Then she ran up the workman's arm and perched on his shoulder, where her soft, bushy tail brushed against his ears and tickled him in the neck.
The brilliant idea of their tails coming behind them instead of before them tickled the risibilities of the sympathizing friends, and for a few moments the woods echoed to their responsive mirth.
The spectacle of a suspicious nature so far misled by its own inventions, tickled me much.
What honest man, on being casually taken for a housebreaker, does not feel rather tickled than vexed at the mistake?
This tickled Sammy more than ever, for it sounded so exactly like Chatterer when he had been a free little imp of mischief in the Green Forest, that Sammy felt sure that Chatterer had nothing the matter with him.
His ears still burned, and somehow he didn't feel so tickled over the thought that he had discovered Chatterer's secret as he had thought he would.
He tickled all over and cut up all sorts of capers, just for pure joy.
Bud did not want to give up that kid, and he was tickled to death because the storm gave him an excuse for keeping it.
This tickled the baby so much that the chuckle burst into a rollicking laugh, with a catch of the breath after each crescendo tone that made it absolutely individual and like none other--save one.
And when Lovin Child got so tickled he was perfectly helpless in the corner where he had sought refuge, Bud caught him and swung him up to his shoulder and let him grab handfuls of dirt out of the roof.
This tickled Professor Valeyon so much, that he burst out in a most genuine laugh.
I've been lonesome so long, it would feel good to have some of my own flesh and blood about me--and I suppose they'd be tickled to death to go.
They were so tickled that they asked no questions The allotment went through like a greased pig.
And Deacon Bobbet hastened to cover up the remark by the statement that "he wuz so highly tickled that wimmen wuzn't goin' to be admitted to the Conference, because it would weaken the Conference.
He thought I wuz praisin' men up, and he actedtickled most to death.
He looked wild and excited, bein' very tickled to think that he had threshed more with his machine, by twenty bushels, than Deacon Petengill had with his.
And she would have been tickled most to death to have had Joe marry her and bring her right home there.
Mother Charnick wuz tickled most to death at the idea of havin' Jenette for her own girl--she thinks her eyes on her, and so does Jenette of her.
A fifth spread his armes like an vsher that goes before to make roome, and thript with his finger & his thumbe when he thought he had tickled it with a conclusion.
But by force of will he attained a reasonable plane of philosophic resignation, temporary at least, and smiled at the boy, who grinned back like a tickled child.
The odd thing is that I'm tickled to death by the notion that I, little Howard, put you in for this night's gorgeous doings.
The elevator man looked after it, andtickled another section of his scalp.
You'll be tickled to death to-morrow when you read the newspapers, and discover the part you played in a big news item.
He appealed to the attendant when the elevator came up, but that worthy thoughtfully tickled his scalp under his cap, and suggested a consultation with the taxi-driver.
He had been pleased and tickled with the prophetic picture of his own neutrality, but strongly disapproved the sting and malice of much of the rest.
It tickled him to be considered a White Indian at the calling which was his, for his whole pride was in his work.
Ralph prepared their own food, and soon a savoury odour tickled the nostrils of those beyond the circle of the firelight.
