"Tickler" Quotes from Famous Books
... into its input side. More generally it is known as the "regenerative circuit" because the tube keeps on generating an alternating current. The little coil which is used to feed back into the grid circuit some of the effects from the plate circuit is sometimes called a "tickler" coil. ... — Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son • John Mills
... says this key-tickler, when he was a youth, he was hired by Koussevitzky, then also a young fellow, to play the piano scores of ... — The World's Great Men of Music - Story-Lives of Master Musicians • Harriette Brower
... said. "The master's very 'tickler 'bout them howls. Why, if I was to kill one, he'd ... — Burr Junior • G. Manville Fenn
... exclaimed Dinah, with a satisfied air. "I knows she won't starve 'em at de table, even ef she suah has terrible 'tickler manners. But ef she says dey shan't eat 'tween meals, den I'll says to her as how dey can. I ain't gwine to hab mah honey lambs starvin', dat's whut I ain't!" and ... — The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West • Laura Lee Hope
... nursed, Capp'd, papp'd, napp'd, and lapp'd from the first On the knees of Prodigality, Her childhood was one eternal round Of the game of going on Tickler's ground Picking up ... — The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood |