I glanced at the dog again, and noticed that he was licking at his wound.

That thar woman never made a lick of that butter she was a packin' to the settlement to trade for her sister that was one o' them widders the preacher had give him the name of.

So, the next morning, the order was given to march as usual, and we made about five miles to a salt lick in the marsh, where we camped for the night.

Give him an ax maybe, and he hits one or two wallopin' licks with it and then stands and rests on the handle and starts to dreaming like a fool.

He is only valuable as he is licked into shape.

The Boy plunged forward, caught the blow as it descended, and flung the arm aside, wrenched the girl free, and as Joe came on again, looking as if he meant business, the Boy planted a sounding lick on his jaw.

Here's Mandy Meacham, been puttin' in her best licks for thirty year or more, an' won't never make it.

Evaporation is also checked by the dense foliage to a greater extent than by any other Sierra tree, and the air is entangled in masses and broad sheets that are quickly saturated; while thirsty winds are not allowed to go sponging and licking along the ground.

There was a dull report, as of a shot fired at a great distance, the scream of Sally from the door, and then liquid fire spurted from the lamp across the table, whipped in a flare to the ceiling, and licked against the walls.

Gussie, during that interview, had, in fine, exhibited all the earmarks of one licked to a custard.

Do ye think," he appealed to his audience, "it would brak' his jaw if I gave him a bit lick across it?" He advanced a huge hand for inspection, and listened to the free advice given to try it, and the earnest assurances that it did not matter much if the jaw did break.

He had hardly spoken before a great yellow tongue of flame licked out of one of the windows, and again and again, until suddenly half of the roof fell in, and the cottage was blazing like a pitch-bucket.

I sat and watched the flames licking round the Cloth Hall.

"He was the youngest, and while he was licked like all of us, her hand never seemed quite as firm with him as with the rest.

No such opportunity came, and during the second week the corpse so far decomposed that, with constant handling and licking by the adults, it rapidly wore away.

He never had a lick from anybody, carried his gun strapped down on his side all the time and never went without it.

Yet, when the reopened hatches let in the sweet smell of the land, Bras-Coupé had come to the upperthe favoredthe buttered side of the world; the anchor slid with a rumble of relief down through the muddy fathoms of the Mississippi, and the prince could hear through the schooner's side the savage current of the river, leaping and licking about the bows, and whimpering low welcomes home.

I side steps, an' gits in a lucky lick below de heart.