This also had been of help to them in several ticklish situations.

But we were in a ticklish place there for a while this evening.

"We are on ticklish service, and require all our wits about us.

"It was, of course, a very ticklish point in law whether the housemaid's evidence could be accepted.

"His answers to the magistrate were clear and simple, even on the ticklish subject of the revolver.

"It's a ticklish job," argued Parson Ranson, "an' I wouldn't want to wuck at de debbil's task aroun' de ribber,

Which is all I wish to say in these ticklish Timesand so your Servant, CHS.

"Ah, you are ticklish.

The big Veronica is ticklish!

And from that moment, each time that I passed near him and stooped down to clear away, he tried to pinch me where he could: "And there," he said, "are you ticklish?

are you ticklish there?" I was so stupefied that I could not get over it.

At one place, for a short steep ascent, the slope became hard ice, and our position a very ticklish one.

Getting out through Arras turned out to be a ticklish business.

He and some young chaps hereabouts, got such a wonderful notion of sailing, and though I have sailed many and many a mile, in large vessels and small, I always hold to it that it is ticklish work for the young and giddy.

'Bob,' says I, 'I can't give my consent; that ticklish sailing boat of young Woods' requires wiser heads and steadier hands than your's to manage.

It is a very ticklish thing to live on the borders of Fairy Land; for though you cannot get to the Fairies, they can get to you, and it is not altogether a pleasant thing to have your private affairs overseen and interfered with by such beings as they are, though sometimes it may be most useful and agreeable.

Sir,I shall now sum up this ticklish subject, by acquainting you with three more methods of catching trout in Westmoreland.

And it's a ticklish business, going over there in the dark, isn't it, old man?"

The liberty of the press is another ticklish subject to handle like a hedgehogall points; but we may be allowed to quote, as one of the most harmless specimens of the liberty of the pressthe production of THE MIRROR, as we always acknowledge the liberty by reference to the sources whence our borrowed wealth is taken.

Ticklish business!

The boat approaches the fish bow foremost, but is made sharp at both ends that it may "back off," if necessary; the whale being often dangerous to approach, and ordinarily starting, when struck, in a way to render his immediate neighbourhood somewhat ticklish.

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Perils in Provence and other ticklish places.

We're used to it, but it's ticklish business for land-lubbers."

" "It is a ticklish business," said Burke, "but I don't know what else can be done.