On the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip.
1 I am unable to carry you over that, pickaback .
2 A giant Prussian bore a spectacled comrade pickaback .
3 The young men then decided that they would carry him pickaback by turns, and so they started.
4 I said, "You used to be little Mimsey Seraskier, and I used to carry you pickaback ! "
5 He carried her upstairs pickaback .
6 He was sitting pickaback in a cloth on a powerfully-built servant, the ends of the cloth knotted on the man's forehead.
7 This time he took longer, when he reappeared he carried a figure riding pickaback and was holding a large equipment box in his arms.
8 So impassable did it then become that even men were compelled to engage the services of a cargador to carry them across " pickaback . "
9 Then he lifted him pickaback on his shoulders, and bidding him hold on tight to his father's hair, carried him off proudly to the house.
10 Pickaback is one of the old, old games which no one is so foolish as to try to trace to its origin.
11 "The giant who carried the old man in pickaback the first night of the war!"
12 "But, Auntie!" cried Jennie, "he's not going to try to carry me pickaback , you know."
13 In Lady Cockburn and Her Children, The Duchess of Devonshire and Her Child, and Pickaback we have typical groups of mothers and children.
14 Often the attitude is full of action, as in the Miss Bowles, and at times there is a striking impression of motion, as in Pickaback .
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