How To Use Tickling In A Sentence
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Our reaction to a tickling sensation may have arisen from a defence against creepy-crawlies.
Times, Sunday Times
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Levy grinned and I knew, in his head, he was tickling her tonsils.
Shortcut Man
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I collapsed in laughter and began tickling him in earnest.
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And a little bit of bear baiting and badger tickling.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like a great child — slim within his arm, her cheek pressed to his, her dark earlock tickling his neck!
Swan Song
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Loladins will be a new class focusing on emote combat, tickling and laughing at their enemies until they feel pity and give up, or punch the player in the face.
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Understeer is present in the dry, countered by progressive oversteer with right foot tickling.
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Vicki released a slow and deep breath, her fingers absently tickling the corners of her Bible.
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Amber giggled and gasped lightly as he swirled her around while tickling her.
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Without the aid of vision, when a plate arrives, the first sensation is smell, but you also feel the warm aroma tickling your nose.
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I think that our experience of the numinous is both undeniable and entirely biological: the state of spiritual peace is the result of tickling some evolved center of our brain, a bit of neurology that conferred a survival advantage on our ancestors whose numinous hallucinations of a higher order in the universe drove them to catch more antelopes, eat better, and have more babies.
Boing Boing
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I smiled as we kissed, her touch tickling me slightly.
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Three bars later, though, he'd be back tickling the finer notes out of Beethoven with utmost delicacy.
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And I'm a United fan which I suppose makes it all the more rib-tickling...
Manchester City 1-2 Everton | Premier League match report
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Clarke joked about that yesterday in tickling the ribs of a critic who had once reported his 'inexorable slide into irrelevance', a beautiful phrase immolated in the post-win victory exchanges.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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While some people suggest that the laughing associated with this tickling is a nervous response, there is also a theory that tickling is an integral part of social relationships.
Tickle, tickle (part 2)
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The main stickling point for people is that they find it incomprehensible that one man could have produced all of those works.
Archive 2005-10-01
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Another section of throwback computer game slapstick violence was almost nostalgically rib-tickling.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a perfect world, then, would tickling and wrestling be more incorporated into society, teaching us more ways to make physical contact that are nonsexual?
Archive 2009-04-01
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His beard was tickling her cheek.
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The longing and the appetite at work in the body, all tickling to open a girl's mane, gaping, health-giving crossroads to the body.
A girl's mane
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He routinely cuts his assistant in half, then cracks up his audience with a bit of rib-tickling humor.
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The grass feels cold and refreshing against my bare feet, the blades tickling between my toes as I walk.
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She squealed with laughter as I started tickling her.
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Evelyn's body writhed, trying to escape her sister's insane tickling motions.
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Which verses, in a word, may have a spice and volupty, may have passion's cling and such like decency, so that they can incite with ticklings, I do not say boys, but bearded ones whose stiffened limbs amort lack pliancy in movement.
The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
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This time I don't feel that way so much, the wriggling and jiggling and tickling inside feels more like a reassurance that all is well.
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Here is one rib-tickling example, courtesy of one of their Health Spokesperson, Peter Black AM.
The genius of Peter Black
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It was nice, here in this bricky room, glowing in the candlelight, the pianist tickling the ivories in the background.
Hacker - Death at the Member-Guest
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The response to tickling is still somewhat like a reflex (we laugh uncontrollably when tickled, struggle to escape the tickler, push away the tickling hand).
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I built a fearsome reputation through stickling over trivialities, and set the seal on it by publicly flogging a colonel (because one of his men was late for roll-call) at the first of the great fortnightly reviews which the Queen and court attended.
Flashman's Lady
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He tries squiggling out from underneath me, but I am the Tickling Queen, and he fails.
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Mazie's fur collar was tickling her neck.
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I'm about to have my tea, the pleasant aromas of which are tickling my nose as I type.
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Apparently some fusty Brits thought this was the most rib-tickling piece of rubbish-talking they'd ever heard.
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They'd probably think that, finished with tickling me, Gordon was now trying to get his hand up my skirt.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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My sweatshirt had ridden up a little bit, exposing about two inches of skin, which was getting quite the tickling as she was nosing around and crawling over to my other side, so that now she is on the edge of my bed that is not up against a wall.
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I wander out onto the terrace, sniff green tea leaves as they brew, touch balls made of snowy flowerets, gaze at gold tickling the lake's skin, peaks clad in polar bear white.
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He did, however, recall tickling a staffer at a birthday party.
Edmonton Sun
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In one quick twist, he'd jumped up in the bed and began tickling her, his longer, stronger fingers wickedly insistent.
JUST BETWEEN US
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Perhaps you should tap into that childlike enthusiasm and pick up painting or soccer or tickling.
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Massa, however, recalled tickling a staffer at a birthday party.
Chron.com Chronicle
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I don't know how widely known this is, but from those who move in BDSM circles, I have learned the trick that, if your partner is having problems controlling his reaction to pain, light stroking or tickling, particularly along the midline of the body, helps a lot.
The Benefits of Tickling
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Why, man, I found them fastened on him myself; and there was odd staving and stickling to make them ‘ware haunch!’
Waverley
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Tomorrow I'll give you my gift lovey, and it will be loads of fun, I said, tickling her.
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My place has like 20 seats, very cozy and the woman who was tickling the ivories and signing was doing some bluesy-balad-y stuff not raucous rock and roll.
Archive 2009-11-01
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A brush with millions of bristles was tickling my face.
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I heartily agree with Peikos's stickling about the ellipsis mark, as explained at greater length here.
Archive 2009-03-01
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My dear Mazdee, I’m always happy to oblige someone, especially as nice as you in tickling your Ja Ja for something someone else has said.
Car insurance for rental car while in Mexico
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And he was captured at the exotic locations in rib-tickling snaps.
The Sun
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Clearly he likes nothing more than tickling the undercarriages of his stuffier forebears.
Times, Sunday Times
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Girls are your first trial after fixtures and they try you even worse than what I call the Wandering Christians, though why THEY should roam the earth looking for bills and then coming in and viewing the apartments and stickling about terms and never at all wanting them or dreaming of taking them being already provided, is, a mystery I should be thankful to have explained if by any miracle it could be.
Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
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But the King was cert no longer touched by his rib-tickling.
Knell Quarternion
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That's an interesting little stickling point that he was able to put into that press conference, wasn't it?
CNN Transcript Mar 2, 2003
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I was leaning on him, resting my chin on his shoulder, his curly grey hair tickling my ear.
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Briefs, in short, offers a mischievous mix of up-close thrills and rib-tickling titillation.
Times, Sunday Times
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When pain does not lead to muscular activity it therefore frequently leads to crying or to moaning, just as tickling, which is equally an incentive to motor activity, results in laughter if it does not find full expression in action.
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers
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She pressed up against me, her fingers tickling my codpiece though I knew she was after my purse.
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Suddenly, with banging tampani and the crash of cymbals, rattle of tambourines and beating of tomtoms, the barbaric Ethiopians of the dancing orchestra began their syncopated outrages against every known law of harmony -- swinging weirdly into the bewitching, tickling, tingling rhythm of a maxixe.
The Voice on the Wire
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The imagination is sometimes said to be tickled by a ludicrous idea; and this so-called tickling of the mind is curiously analogous with that of the body.
The expression of the emotions in man and animals
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He strokes her arm, this time not tickling her, but marveling at the smooth, almost frictionless feeling.
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Someone said later she could feel the bullet tickling her hair as it whizzed by, but that was one of Jill's college friends, who had always been prone to exaggerations.
Gunplay
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All of this babblement makes this a delightful read-aloud, both for the listener, and for the adult reader who can have fun with the twitch-tickling wordplay.
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It's been suggested that gargalesis tickling is a way for the touch of the parent to be associated with pleasure, developing a trust-bond "so that parents may touch a child, in an unpleasant way, should circumstances develop such as the need to treat a painful injury or prevent harm from danger.
Tickle, tickle (part 2)
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He wrapped it around his body, the soft velvet tickling his naked body.
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Still, my feet fidgeted; there was a sort of "cobwebby" feeling on my face, and a tickling sensation in the small of my back, as I stood ready for my first ball, which convinced me I was by no means at home in my new position.
Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life
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And, like humans, rats enjoy tickling only when already in a good mood.
The Sun
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As he cheerfully plays with his toys or writhes playfully to evade the tickling of his loving mum, there is no hint of the rare illness that will mean demanding times lay ahead for the youngster and his parents.
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He recalled tickling an aide during a birthday party in a townhouse he shared with five of his staff members.
AMERICAblog News
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She felt her determination melt away as the doctor swabbed her wrist with the disinfectant, the sharp smell tickling her nose.
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She could feel one of the soft, snowy white feathers tickling her shoulder.
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Their hands - podgy, thin, freckled or pale - touched everything, prodding, caressing, tickling, squeezing.
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I have never been quite free from a tickling pain since the bronchitis of last year, and it has recently assumed the form of extreme relaxation and irritation in the uvula, which is that pendulous appendage which hangs over the orifice of the throat.
George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends
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Mazie's fur collar was tickling her neck.
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And a little bit of bear baiting and badger tickling.
Times, Sunday Times
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One moment this most voracious variety is knee high to your clematis, the next it is tickling your guttering.
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‘Good morning sexy,’ he said as he kissed her neck, tickling her with his mustache.
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The Bathroom Reader Institute handpicked the most eye-opening, rib-tickling, and mind-boggling articles from everything they have written over the last ten years and carefully crammed them into 576 pages of the book.
Joey Skaggs, The Ultimate Hoax Meister
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He was tickling his face with a strand of beach morning glory.
MINUTES TO BURN
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Liam started tickling her all over, Jess was screaming with laughter.
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My eyes are tickling, there's a warm sensation in the corners.
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No matter how enticing the allure of riding passenger side with soca tickling your spine may be-just say no to jumping in the front!
Chie Davis: Caribbean Holiday Travel-Do's & Don'ts for Female Travelers
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I'm thinking that now that he doesn't have to be a good boy, with wifey out of the race and all, the fellow is surely gorging on sticky ribs and rib-tickling tarts of the Burkle variety.
Bill Clinton Endorses Obama
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My hair was tousled around my face, a single strand tickling my nose.
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No matter how rib-tickling "A progressive county" might be as a slogan, they have indeed made progress.
Letters: Aramaic lives
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The situation would be rib-tickling if it wasn't so awful.
Times, Sunday Times
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He routinely cuts his assistant in half, then cracks up his audience with a bit of rib-tickling humor.
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Normally the tickler is someone who desires to express intimacy, emotion, and affection through their tickling - in other words the tickle is intended as a friendly gesture.
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It seems to me that it would be worth it to Tacoma's schools and other government functions that the state raise that $200 million plus in revenue from a sales tax increase. poliTICKLING
It’s Regressive « PubliCola
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He's the comedian who spent years tickling our funny bones before donning a red anorak and surprisingly becoming a history expert in various documentary series.
The Sun
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Acne is 'enflamed', tickling 'discrete' and a brunt, in one instance, 'bared'.
The Times Literary Supplement
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When I'm tickling her tummy and she laughs hilariously, with her whole body.
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The resident Surrey-based jokers, who gave two sell out performances in Epsom in November and March, have been tickling fans with a melange of bawdy songs and set pieces since they began working together two and a half years ago.
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She grabbed a handful of grass and shoved it down my neck, tickling me mercilessly.
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He gently nuzzled his head into my neck, tickling me.
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Albert joined in in his rib-tickling way to observe that no European state offered such fertile soil for the seeds of socialism as Russia did, and that he feared that the new Tsar had little intellect or character.
Fiancée
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From aniseed balls, butter Brazils and Grays tea cakes, to chocolate Turkish delight, sherbets and rhubarb and custard, the list of taste bud-tickling treats on sale is endless.
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He, being every day alarmed at the prospect of a successor, addressed himself to the task of conciliating Valens, who was of a rustic and rather simple character, by tickling him with all kinds of disguised flattery and caresses, calling his uncouth language and rude expressions "flowers of Ciceronian eloquence.
The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens
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Spend two hours with the man and you come away remembering rib-tickling anecdotes.
The Sun
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It was about as rib-tickling as cirrhosis of the liver.
Times, Sunday Times
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When the salon is arranged for the evening, shields are hung over the backs of the open canework chairs to prevent the mosquitoes stinging between the shoulders, where it is so difficult to relieve the tickling by rubbing.
Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago
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Side effects of VNS therapy are usually mild, such as hoarseness, coughing and tickling in the throat and usually diminish over time.
Berks county news
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The rich, earthy smell of the shampoo Kia always used drifted from her golden hair, tickling the inside of his nostril.
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Texas burst into laughter, and fell over, Jude relentlessly tickling her.
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He grinned and continued tickling her until she fell off the couch in laughter.
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She turned her face inward towards his shirt, breathing in deeply, then exhaling, her breath tickling his chest through the material.
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But tiresome authority deems that tickling a trout or two or felling the odd wild duck for the supper table is illegal.
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Their feathers brushed her face, tickling her nose and she sneezed.
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The world is invigilated by stand-ups in amusing hats, taking rib-tickling modes of transport.
Times, Sunday Times
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Claire traced her lips along Mark's neck, tickling him softly.
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It was a warm tickling sensation at first, which grew in intensity about a hundred fold.
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The cold wet water sloshed around my feet, tickling my toes.
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A tickling, dry, hard cough; great soreness in the chest on coughing or deep breathing.
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I couldn't sleep for the hair that had fallen out tickling my face, and I had to get my mother to hoover my pillow every day.
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Not only do most people like tickling - ticklers as well as ticklees - most recognize it is a way to show affection.
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Far from tickling anyone pink, this unnecessary remake is more likely to turn viewers red with rage.
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Then there is that rib-tickling American double act at Liverpool, Tom Hicks and George Gillett, whose financial acumen appears to be akin to that of Sgt Ernie Bilko, the leading character in a long-running TV show which bore the tagline "You'll never get rich".
Liverpool's rib-tickling duo have left Roy Hodgson's side sore
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He curled and uncurled his fingers against her soft skin, the t-shirt tickling his hand.
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Following the accusations of homophobia levelled at the sketch show, here lesbianism is largely confined to extras tickling tonsils in the background while Fletch's fear of 'bumming' is just one more instance of crass, sniggering dialogue in a script that's wretched with it.
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There was constant and imperious excitement, with the sense of vibration, tension, pressure, dilatation and tickling, accompanied, it may be, by some ovarian congestion, for she felt that on the left side there was a network of sexual nerves, and retroversion of the uterus was detected some years later.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society
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Well, your hanner, without much stickling I gave up my Popery, joined the Orange lodge, learned the Orange tunes, and became a regular Protestant boy, and truly the Orange men kept their word, and made it answer my purpose.
Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
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Stop tickling me, you beast!
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Of course, happily so, with a lot of rib-tickling word play and groaners thrown in for spice in this collaboration between Theater For A New Audience and National Yiddish Theatre.
Michael Giltz: Theater: "Shlemiel The First" Klezmer Musical Sings But What's With The Restraint?
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Time passes, and there follows a sensation as if the stomach was drawn together or compressed, as if with a slight degree of cramp, coupled with a total extinction of appetite; the mouth and throat become dry and irritated; there is an incessant disposition to clear the throat by "hemming" and swallowing, and there is a tickling in the nose which necessitates frequent sneezing, sometimes a dozen or even twenty times in succession.
The Opium Habit
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“The reason tickling and laughter are so important,” Roger Fouts says, “is because they play a role in maintaining the affinitive bonds of friendship within the family and community.”
Mind Wide Open
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Del played along, tickling Jenny around her neck and arms.
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His beard was tickling her cheek.
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Our reaction to a tickling sensation may have arisen from a defence against creepy-crawlies.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tastes rolled over his tongue in tangy waves and a thousand smells swirled in his nostrils, tickling every oily nose hair.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
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‘No tickling,’ he said, realizing a moment later that he was flirting with her; he hadn't even thought he knew how to flirt.
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I felt my anger rising and tried vainly to quench it, the flames tickling me, begging to be let loose upon the man I now hated most.
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Brian rubbed his thumb back and forth over my index finger knuckle, tickling me a little bit.
