Just when we had got within about two hundred yards, and I was congratulating myself that I had not had this long crawl with the sun beating on the back of my neck like a furnace for nothing, I heard the hissing note of the rhinoceros birds, and up flew four or five of them from the brute's back, where they had been comfortably employed in catching Tics.
"Maiwa's Revenge The War of the Little Hand"
H. Rider Haggard
Tim pointed a finger at the terminal and my brain was suffused with the essence of Lincoln: every nuance of his speech, the painstakingly researched movement Tics, his warts and beard and topcoat.
"Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom"
Cory Doctorow
I've simply got to forget any family Tics.
"Interference and Other Football Stories"
Harold M. Sherman