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Lacking any of Semple’s antic humor, the manuscript was scrapped.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
He was substituted after just one minute having not touched the ball, but the publicity antic sparked a major backlash.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2025
The agility competition might be the rhythmic gymnastics of Westminster, derided as less than by traditionalists, but it’s a growing sport with meritocratic principles and an air of antic fun in its favor.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2024
Even before Macbeth lays eyes on the ghost of Banquo at the banquet, he adopts a version of Hamlet’s antic disposition, laughing strangely and behaving erratically.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2024
Volkheimer’s antic ash-dusted face materializes in front of Werner, his rank insignia partially torn off one shoulder.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Some gave a shout, some rolled about, And anticked as they rode, And butchers whistled on their curs, And milkmen tally-hoed.
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood
And he galloped on, as cheery as a boy, shouting at the rabbits as they scuttled from under his feet, and laughing at the dottrel as they postured and anticked on the mole-hills.
From Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley
Milling crowds, jammed doorways, the continuous free street show put on by the anticking Legionnaires was the answer.
From Time Magazine Archive
I thought you scoffed at all baritones, and only delighted in maudlin tenors and anticking sopranos.
From The Dominant Strain by H. C. (Harry C.) Edwards
She fixed her eyes upon the small prophets and patriarchs anticking upon the hearth.
From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Lucas Malet
And so she looked very hard at the hungry anticking rooks, both to secure time for recovery of her equanimity, and also to spare Richard smallest suspicion that she avoided beholding his advance and installation.
From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Lucas Malet
Jerry no more than cocked a contemptuous quizzical eye at the mainsail anticking above him.
From Jerry of the Islands by Jack London
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