• Some theorists among them Charles Darwin have suggested that this is because of the inherently social character of tickling.

    ECONOMIST: Neuroscience

  • "Eva Kerschischnik (Daniel's therapist) kept tickling him with a spoon, " said Mr Harrison.

    BBC: England

  • Hannah thumped through her keyboard practice with hot cheeks and wept extravagantly when Suzie told her off for tickling Joel.

    NEWYORKER: The Swan

  • Puccini was only 25 when he wrote "Le Villi, " but his ear-tickling melodies are in evidence from the first strains of the prelude.

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  • "It was a pleasant kind of fear, nerve-tickling, " Kamil Magomedov, a veteran member of the team, said after the bungee jump last year.

    WSJ: Menu

  • Sometimes, when I moved my face a little, I could almost feel my skin brushing against words, like clusters of tiny, tickling insects.

    NEWYORKER: History of a Disturbance

  • Armed with sticks we had to breach the males' first line of defense by taking advantage of their poor vision and tickling their whiskers.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • In 2008, several school employees expressed concerns about the relationship between Leat and a female pupil, which included physical contact such as hugging and tickling.

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  • Then Bell, released from the England squad to play, made only two singles from 30 balls before tickling a leg-side chance to keeper Andrew Hodd.

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  • Furby's also got capacitive sensors in its head, stomach (also home to its internal mic), back and sides that react to touching such as tickling.

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  • Before the piano leads to his demise, the Goblin favors us with witty, anachronistically current rapport while tickling the ivories in the opening of Act Two.

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  • Later, when the boy was allegedly invited to Mr. Sandusky's home, behavior such as hugging, rubbing, cuddling and tickling, initially viewed as acts of affection, escalated to sexual assault, according to the presentment.

    WSJ: Sandusky Jailed After New Abuse Charges

  • But then, at the most unexpected moments, a tenderhearted sympathy, raw and sudden, would rise in him, and he would plunge his face into my neck, sniff deeply and kiss, tickling me with his mustache.

    NEWYORKER: Naima

  • To study the neurology of tickling, Dr Blakemore and her team stuck volunteers into a magnetic-resonance-imaging machine (which monitors oxygen flow to the brain, and thus indicates the amount of activity in that organ's various parts).

    ECONOMIST: Neuroscience: Tickled curiosity | The

  • But in the case of self-tickling, the researchers found a difference in the activity of the cerebellum the bit of the brain responsible for co-ordinating motor activity even when they factored out the effect of the volunteer's right hand moving.

    ECONOMIST: Neuroscience: Tickled curiosity | The

  • The last time we did it was in '98 so, you know, it's been hard work and a lot of rib-tickling by the Man United fans and things but now it's our time and we're going to enjoy it.

    BBC: News | BREAKFAST WITH FROST | Interview with David Seaman, Arsenal and England

  • So a few years and a billion pounds or so later, the great architect delivers his monumental vision - a cloud-tickling skyscraper, a giant gleaming obelisk that emerges from London Bridge train station like a rocket about to take off.

    BBC: Imagine the meeting that led to The Shard

  • However, he said the symptoms that are associated with thyroid nodules include tenderness in the thyroid area, ear or jaw pain, difficulty or discomfort swallowing, a tickling feeling in the throat and shortness of breath with exertion because the nodule may be compressing the windpipe.

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