Tickled

Examples

• Remember how tickled he used to be, cause she would keep a fallin' over, when she sot out to walk. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• This tickled Mr Sloppy as an extraordinarily good joke, and he threw back his head and laughed with measureless enjoyment. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• My girl's earnestness tickled me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Some joke tickled her, I suppose, of the sort that you can't take unless you are a person of quality. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Which so tickled the spectators, that they laughed almost as heartily as Master Bates could have done if he had heard the request. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Tickler was a wax-ended piece of cane, worn smooth by collision with my tickled frame. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• What honest man, on being casually taken for a housebreaker, does not feel rather tickled than vexed at the mistake? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The notion tickled hugely her sense of humour. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He was immensely tickled by his own adventures and laughed heartily as he recounted them. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I know their tricks and their manners, and they'd have tickled you nicely. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The spectacle of a suspicious nature so far misled by its own inventions, tickled me much. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Milk and water-erily you mean, sir,' he returned, with some little thickness of speech, in consequence of the Gum-Ticklers having tickled it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mr. Sowerberry was much tickled at this: as of course he ought to be; and laughed a long time without cessation. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I am tickled and twitched all over. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

Edited by Gertrude