11) X. Maggie Behaves Worse Than She Expected. Book I—Boy and Girl. Eliot,
George. 1917. The Mill on the Floss. Vol. IX. Harvard Classics Shelf of
Fiction
...naturally pleased that cousin Tom was so good to her, and it was very amusing to see him tickling a fat toad with a piece of string when the toad was safe down the...
12) Act II. Scene V. Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will. Craig, W.J., ed. 1914.
The Oxford Shakespeare
...Lie thou there: [Throws down a letter.] for here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling. [Exit. 12 Enter MALVOLIO. Mal. Tis but fortune; all is fortune....
13) Feather. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...day to day some silly things Upset you altogether; There s nought so soon convulsion brings As tickling with a feather. 'Gainst minor evils let him pray Who Fortune...
14) II. To Arrianus. Pliny the Younger. 1909-14. Letters. The Harvard Classics
...from novelty, are still, I am told, in request; if, after all, the booksellers are not tickling my ears. And let them; since, by that innocent deceit, I am encouraged...
15) On the Realities of Imagination. Leigh Hunt. 1909-14. English Essays:
Sidney to Macaulay. The Harvard Classics
...a man knocked down by a fit of apoplexy, equally feel themselves compelled to drop. The tickling of a straw and of a comedy equally move the muscles about the mouth....
16) Act III. Scene III. The Life and Death of King John. Craig, W.J., ed. 1914.
The Oxford Shakespeare
...surly spirit, melancholy, Had bak d thy blood and made it heavy-thick, Which else runs tickling up and down the veins, Making that idiot, laughter, keep men s eyes...
17) Act IV. Scene II. Dekker, Thomas. 1909-14. The Shoemaker's Holiday. The
Harvard Classics
...Old Ford. 28 SYBIL. That you shall have, Ralph. FIRK. Nay, by the mass, we had tickling cheer, Sybil; and how the plague dost thou and Mistress Rose and my lord mayor?...
18) §11. Importance of the Corpus Christi Festival. I. The Origins of English
Drama. Vol. 5. The Drama to 1642, Part One. The Cambridge History of
English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes.
1907–21
...in lay plays, and that the friars were likely to exercise much self-restraint when desirous of tickling the palates of their audiences. In general, though an attentive...
19) §8. The dramatic element in Browning s work. III. Robert Browning and
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part One. The
Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in
Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...and the live creatures in Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis— worm, slug, eft, with serious features, tickling and tousing and browsing him all over—all these are given a...
20) Act IV. Scene V. Troilus and Cressida. Craig, W.J., ed. 1914. The Oxford
Shakespeare
...a coasting welcome ere it comes, And wide unclasp the tables of their thoughts 72 To every tickling reader, set them down For sluttish spoils of opportunity And daughters...
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