Kicking
['kɪkɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Kick
Typed by Keller
Examples
- She rose and held up the child kicking and crowing in her arMs. Do you know who this is, Walter? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I asked you if you had ever known a man who had tried to disable himself by kicking himself in the scrotum. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- No use; nothing but queer chairs danced before his eyes, kicking up their legs, jumping over each other's backs, and playing all kinds of antics. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I will let you off the kicking, replied Crispin, recovering his good-humor. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- How she rode that kicking mare at Queen's Crawley! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He called kicking a footman downstairs a hint to the latter to leave his service. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Do you think I mean to forget your kicking me when I was a lad, and eating all the best victual away from me and my mother? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But he felt his neck under Bulstrode's yoke; and though he usually enjoyed kicking, he was anxious to refrain from that relief. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Miss Van Campen, I said, did you ever know a man who tried to disable himself by kicking himself in the scrotum? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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