"Tic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tic-a-tic-tick of the grasshoppers, and the wail of a passing gull, a human sound seemed to start abruptly out of the solitude—the voice of a man singing. I rose on my elbow, and pushed the straw hat up a bit. Under its brim through the ...
— Noughts and Crosses • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... Philippe, the Cairo dealer in antiquities, is, with permission from the Gizeh Museum, carrying on excavations at Heliopolis, which have brought to light some tombs of the Satic period.—Academy, ...
— The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 • Various
... hills; steep places. ri'fle, a gun having the inside of the barrel grooved. rind, the outside coat, as of fruit. risk, danger; peril. riv'u let, a small river or brook. rob'ber, one who commits a robbery. ro man'tic, strange and interesting, as a romantic story. rouse, awake; excite. ru'in, that change of any thing which destroys it. rust'y, covered with rust ...
— New National Fourth Reader • Charles J. Barnes and J. Marshall Hawkes
... he'll sleep sound, the dear man; and he needs it, too, because of his sufferings, for he does suffer, I can tell you, and more's the pity. But I'd like to know what a healthy man like him wants to burn his back for, just to get rid of a tic douleureux which troubles him once in two years. However, to come back to our business. I have my neighbor's key; her lodging is just above mine, and in it there's a room adjoining the one where ...
— The Thirteen • Honore de Balzac
... "I'm par-tic-u-lar-ly fond of dancing," said Mrs. Mowbray, with strong emphasis. "Only the young men are so rude! They fly about after young chits of girls, and don't notice me. And so I don't often have an opportunity, you know. But there ...
— The Living Link • James De Mille
... be so — so uncomf't'ble 'n' p'tic'lar! W't's use of be'ng shnobbish?" he urged, clinging hilariously to his partner, a pigeon-toed ballet girl. But Elliott only ...
— In the Quarter • Robert W. Chambers
... now all right. I do not expect any tic to-night, and shall be at work again to-morrow. I have had a day of open air, only a little modified by LE CAPITAINE FRACASSE before the dining- room fire. I must write no more, for I am sleepy after ...
— The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 1 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... hold wud her goings on," was the doctrine promulgated by the Woolpack; but the general council sitting in the bar of the Crown decreed that the trouble had arisen out of Fuller's spirited refusal to sell some lambs that had tic. Other pronouncements were that she had sassed Fuller because he knew more about sheep than she did—or that Fuller had sassed her for the same reason—that it wasn't Joanna who had dismissed him, but he who had been regretfully obliged to give notice, owing to her meddling—that all ...
— Joanna Godden • Sheila Kaye-Smith
... oikeios, domesticus, originally oikei-o-s, being in the house. These are adjectives formed, it would seem, from old locatives, just as in Bask we can form from etche, house, etche-tic, of the house, and etche-tic-acoa, he who is of the house; or from seme, son, semea-ren, of the son, and semea-ren-a, he who is of the son. See W.J. van Eys, Essai de Grammaire de ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller
... prince of erotic and bacchanalian poets, insomuch that songs on these subjects are still called Anacreon'tic (B.C. 563-478). ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. |
