His eyes glittered above the first lick of flames from the embers.

If you don't hit your man the first lick, you never recover in time.

Tibbles winced at the first lick, but, after the third, she began to purr.

There, you've hit the nail the very first lick.

He saw an oyster in the top of the heap feel the first lick of flame.

It wasn't a studio, of course, despite the artfully placed and prepped canvas on its easel awaiting the first lick of oil.

First lick to you, Grace, as you seem to be the defendant.

I figure we've got a good chance of getting in the first licks.

We've got the first licks in on th' sheriff's carcass.

No one's going to help me, I thought, feeling the first licks of real fear.

First licking around them, and under them, tickhng the crease beneath the plump curves with little flicks of his tongue.

"It'll be winter before they hit the first lick at this rate," Jasper said.

I'd like to get in the first licks myself, but I haven't been able to dope out any way of doing it.

"Make the first lick a hummer, Roland," he urged.

His dog was a professional fighter and had made three kills, and here a "pet" had given him his first licking.

They showed their special regard by first licking off the piece of seal they put before him, and if he rejected it they were hurt.