1 I'll bet we could lick the Yankees in a month if all the militia of all the states went to Virginia.
2 They could and did lick the Yankees every time the Yankees would stand and fight.
3 Then, there was a crash of falling timbers near by and Scarlett saw a thin tongue of flame lick up over the roof of the warehouse in whose sheltering shadow they sat.
4 Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: "As God is my witness, as God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me."
5 "I'll bet your pa never hit a darky a lick in his life," said Frank.
6 There warn't nothin that come to him FROM THE OUTSIDE that could lick him.
7 There ain't nothin FROM THE OUTSIDE can lick any of us.
8 There ain't nothin that walks can lick us, any more than it could lick him, not Yankees nor Carpetbaggers nor hard times nor high taxes nor even downright starvation.
9 But that weakness that's in our hearts can lick us in the time it takes to bat your eye.
10 The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more--and by remembering too much.
11 All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt, a quiet place to lick her wounds, a haven in which to plan her campaign.
12 lick the earth, in order to obtain the saline particles.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 12 13 Don't go a-thinkin you can lick the hull rebel army at the start, because yeh can't.
14 Of course they ain't never been under fire yet, and it ain't likely they'll lick the hull rebel army all-to-oncet the first time; but I think they'll fight better than some, if worse than others.
15 I dare you to step over that, and I'll lick you till you can't stand up.