But not a feather was tweaked out, or even disturbed, that I could see.
Downy screamed vigorously, and got away as soon as he could, but not till the bluebird had tweaked out a feather or two.
Then I found that my ankle was swollen to such a thickness as reminded me of Sir Nicholas’s gouty foot, and the remembrance of that, and how he used to curse it when it tweaked him, put me into a more hopeful humour.
He made an effort to rise from his chair as we entered, but the gout tweaked his toe, and he sat there, groaning and making wry faces as he stretched out his hand to the knight.
I have no doubt that sensitive blood flushed the bronzed, wrinkled cheeks of Skipper Tommy Lovejoy, and that, in a burst of grinning modesty, he tweaked his nose with small regard for that sorely tried and patient member.
Skipper Tommy paused to sigh and tweak his nose; and he tweaked so often and sighed so long that I lost patience.
But Sard would not catch at this mood, she only put aside the teasing hand that tweaked her hair and fussed over her belt buckle.
He is sure to get ittweaked for his pains, pains, pains, He is sure to get it tweaked for his pains.
He had scarcely uttered the words, when his foe, who stood inside, instantly tweaked him by the nose, and Bill felt as if he had been gripped by the same red-hot tongs with which he himself had formerly tweaked the nose of Nicholas.
The door opened and as Godfrey Mills came in, Mr. Taynton tweakedthe paper out of Timmins's hand, and tore it up.
He stood up, close-lipped and cold; his nerves inwardly fluttered, his attention tweaked away at last from contemplation of that cloud looming on the horizon of his mind.
Then, going to the bag, her compressed lips twitching, her gray eyes piercing into its clasp with a kind of distrustful optimism, she lifted the pincers and tweaked it hard.
Svengali, it seems, had never been quite the same since the 15th of October previous, and that was the day he had got his face slapped and his nose tweaked by Taffy in Paris.
His bed was full of eels and frogs; and when the poor boy tried to get a nap in a chair a tame owl and a pair of pet bats flapped their wings in his face and tweaked his nose and ears.
Laughing pages ran before him, and the Prince recalled the many times he hadtweaked their noses and stuck pins in the calves of their legs.
She liked the cotton so well she stopped in her hallway, reached up to pull at the white bundles, and tweaked and tugged till, finally, she backed triumphantly down the hole with one.
One of themtweaked out its board with such a jerk it sent the pocket swinging like a pendulum.
Polly, dancing on her perch, and clawing at the old lady's cap as Laurie tweaked him in the rear.
Griffith's eyes would twinkle with pleasure when Emma tweakedhis ears or drowned his pretense in a dash of music.
Griffith took his glasses in his hand and held them as if he were trying to magnify the boy in order to see him, and with his other hand tweaked his upper lip as if searching for a mustache.
And just about midsummer Fate tweakedthe string to which was hobbled Susan Hetth.
As her brother passed Madelene, he tweaked her ear.
The wind stung her face and tweaked her fingers through her warm gloves.
He flashed his quick, infectious smile at me, and tweaked his mustache ends, for all the world like a self-satisfied tomcat furbishing his whiskers after finishing a bowl of cream.
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