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Usage examples of antic.

That he was now the President of the College of Tribunes of the Plebs did not bode well for tribunician antics of demagogue kind.

Indeed, in one of his acidic, if antic, moods, Robbie told us Tuohey had delivered a fairly entertaining monologue about why liquor was a more dependable companion than a woman.

So he played with her as he would have played with any other playmate, laughing with her, calling to her, and going through his foolish little boyish antics before her.

As he approached it, the lanes leading to the Feddan were being cleared for the mad antics of the Aissawa.

Heinders, but the watching public had taken it comparatively quietly, seemingly more interested in watching the antics of their representatives in the hall below than encouraging any particularly partisan opinion now that a decision had been reached.

His wounded antics, ranging from pitiful entreaties to furious ridicule, had forced her to quit her job.

Henry, laughing at the antics of a trio of jugglers, shared a cup of wine with a pretty young woman who looked a few years younger than Sanglant.

Sanglant got a good look at the king for the first time, his view blocked only by the antics of the jugglers.

Their antics would have made Antonia blush if she were not made of sterner stuff.

So too was the delicious comedienne, whose flowing blonde locks and light-headed antics in film comedies with such superstars as the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy had won her a legion of fans.

The court, which by now had had about all it could take of bedroom antics, decided that Thorpe was no saint himself, and ordered that the child spend nine months of the year with Mary, and the three-month summer vacation with her father.

Brother put on in the hall was all well and good as the antics of a house spirit.

Normally, the court officers rib him about his antics when they escort him from lockup to the large courtroom.

Marius had plenty of time to absorb these repellent antics as he stood there waiting for someone to answer his thunderous knock.

He had swiveled to his extreme left to watch the antics of a superbly sailed Rhodian galley some distance off his stern when his own huge ship lurched, groaned, shuddered convulsively, and the sounds of many oars snapping off like twigs became intermingled with cries of dismay and alarm.