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More "Tweak" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sentry, here, who in thunder that insolent bounder is. By Jingo! I have half a mind to go after him and tweak his pigtail soundly. Why, he looked at us as though we were dirt beneath his feet— as though we had no business to be alive. ...
— A Chinese Command - A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas • Harry Collingwood
... taken. Jim staggered forward, and, seizing the Scotchman's prominent nose, gave it a violent tweak. ...
— The Young Adventurer - or Tom's Trip Across the Plains • Horatio Alger
... you Cynics with your sneers, Fallen brains and hearts of brass, Tweak me by my foolish ears, Write me down a simple ass! I'll believe the real "you" Is the "you" without a taint; I'll believe each woman too, ...
— Rhymes of a Rolling Stone • Robert W. Service
... riotously happy. After the fashion of village negresses, she insisted on helping Mrs. Higgman with her work, and, incidentally, she cultivated Mrs. Higgman's Northern accent. When the chambermaid was out on her errands and Cissie found a moment alone with Peter, she would tweak his ear or pull his cheek and provoke him to kiss her. Indeed, it was all the hot, shuddering little laundry-room could do to contain ...
— Birthright - A Novel • T.S. Stribling
... fact that I particularly want a word with him," said Kirby, giving a last tweak to his tie and reaching out for his mess-jacket that the servant had laid on a chair, "there'd not be much ground that I can see for action of any kind. He has a right to ...
— Winds of the World • Talbot Mundy
... looked him up and down, looked at his ears, his eyes. He felt that in another second her little fingers would slip up and tweak the first, or close the second ...
— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Various
... pity we could not find all 'sins' as salutary. I may be a retired old clergyman, with no greater responsibilities upon my shoulders than keeping one unruly little girl within bounds," he added, giving a tweak to Peggy's curls, "and looking after her father's estate— I tutored HIM when he was a lad—but I hear echoes of the doings of the outer world now and again. Yes—yes, now and again, and when they ...
— Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home • Gabrielle E. Jackson
... repeated, going out into the sunshine that smote her with the sting of hot lances. The tweak from his hand lay back somewhere, branded none too ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst
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