15 examples of lickin in sentences
After he'd finished the bait, and found there warn't any more to be come at, he stretched himself on his belly along the ground, and began lickin' his paws, and passing them over his cheeks, as you've seen a cat do.
"If you wake another baby, you'll get a lickin'," he said genially to the dog; and then he stretched out his feet till they reached Nig's back, and a feeling of great comfort came over the Boy.
"I would n' tole nobody else," he said, in answer to my question, "but you tole a lie fo' me oncet, an' saved me a lickin'.
" "Well," said Sam, looking at me doubtfully, "yo' saved me a lickin' anyhow, an' I did n' f 'git it," and he dropped back again.
I allers found out that when a man is gettin up in the world, that, like carrion crows hoverin over a sick animal, grumblers fly about him, lickin their chops and watchin a good opportunity to scratch him ragged.
Pet here is itchin' for a lickin', an' I got a good notion to 'commodate him.
You go in the corner, and take turns lickin' the dish, while I see company," said Joe, disbanding his small troop, and shouldering the baby as if presenting arms in honor of his guest.
The biggest spoke first, sheepishly, roughly, almost defiantly "Come on up, boys; we'll hev to take a lickin' this time.
Castor Oil I don't mind lickin's, now an' then, An' I can even stand it when
"I'll give you a lickin'!"
''No, you won't,' sings out Jerry, and with that he jumps out of bed right at me, and Putty Henderson he comes at me from the other side, and, between the two, they gave me the worst lickin' I ever got in my born days, and then they dragged me down stairs and kicked me out the front door, and I had hardly time to pick myself up before I saw a policeman about a block off, and if he hadn't been a fat one he'd had me sure.
It was sure some lickin'.
They took a lot of lickin', but now they're tamed.
I'se would get a lickin' most every-day.
but she snatched de whip out ob her han' an gib her a lickin'.