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I understand how to sing to tickle the ears of my hearers.
The Northern Light
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Her fun was not vulgar, but coarse and biting enough to tickle the ears of the common reader.
Frances Waldeaux: A Novel
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He hadn't a solitary pretty phrase to tickle the ears of the ladies-hespoke of and to them as women.
Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
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That's not argument, but simply empty declamation intended to tickle the ears of the groundlings-toraise a whoop among the gallery gods.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10
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These sallies of wit were meant rather to " tickle the ears of the groundlings" than as just subjects for criticism by later scholars.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English Hist...
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A half-caste explained it, and his wit was considerable, tickling the ears as the scenes tickled the eyes.
Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
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"The whole science of music consists in tickling the ears."
Armadale
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"It is adapted for caged voices that are required to chirrup to tickle the ears of boors."
Vittoria — Volume 5