After the greetings had been voiced, the first surprise came, and that was when the Tike came bounding into the midst of the gentle dames and informed them that a cheer fire was blazing on the grass-plot in the rear of the Hall.
Simultaneously the girls forsook the Tike and flocked around Lillie, who, gowned in pure white, with kerchief and lace cap, represented Susannah White, the first bride of the colony.
This last was from the Tike who was hopping about the new arrival examining the hairy scalps--which turned out to be a few wigs borrowed from the village barber--with keen curiosity.
But beauty's so much dust and ashes, if yer can just boost yerself up to tike the larger view.
In times past, Tom would quickly have put distance between himself andTike Bryerson in the squirrel-eyed stage of intoxication.
Rumor in Gordonia had it that Tike Bryerson had been hunted out by the revenue officers; and, for reasons which he would have found it difficult to declare in words, Tom had been shy about making inquiries.
Tike had been stilling more pine-top whisky, and had been to town with some jugs hidden under the cornstalks in his wagon-bed.
But this time the Major had happened along, and when Tike would not stop beating the horses for a shouted cursing-out from the bank, the Major had spurred his Hambletonian into the creek and knocked Tike winding.
Suspicion, put on the scent by the night-watchman's story, pointed to Tike Bryerson as the criminal.
It related that Nan's mother was dead, and that the body had lain two days unburied while Tike was drowning his sorrow in a sea of his own "pine-top.
Thomas Jefferson had never seen any one die, only a dog that Tike Bryerson had shot on one of his drunken home-goings.
That's rum; and I totike the trouble not only to wisit yer own most respectable mansion, but to foller yer 'ere in the true sperrit of kindness.
And Hunt was gone; they heard him whistling for histike when he was himself out of sight, and the dog went at last.
It showed him that Hunt was by no means unskilled in the use of his hands; and it put out of his head everything but the fight itself, so that he heard no more the small tike barking outside the saddle-room door, hitherto his angriest goad.
You were the lonesomest, chilliest, most forlorn little tike I ever saw; but, by the eternal, you were trying not to cry!
An' I 'ad tickets in me pocket to tike me girl to the pl'y in Piccadilly that night.
Kipe yer fingers crossed w'en yer go in there, Yank; tike me advice!
You tike my tip: if yer in a 'urry, you get a bit on account--from Man.
Besawds, gavner, this Lidy Sisly Winefleet mawt wor't to tike a walk crost Morocker--a rawd inter the mahntns or sech lawk.
Yuss; an whawl you're witin, yll tikeyour horders from me: see?
Wild tike of the moors, dost thou think Tam Craik fears thy prancing and thy carrion breath, or ony o' the bur-throated litter of which thou art the outwale?
Just set one gentleman down, and 'appy to tike another up.
Want to get back to my comfy little West End shelter, so I'll tike yer for 'alf fares, sir, though we are outside the blooming radius.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tike" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
