Fury turned Carrick's eyes nearly black, trembled from his fingertips in little licks of red flame.

But it was very hard to resist taking at least a little lick.

Her tongue comes out, but this time it gives only a feeble little lick at her upper lip.

The discomfort in her stomach spread into little licks of fear as she thought of Feeney.

A little lick of fear worked up her spine.

He expected no more than a perfunctory little lick.

And yet, somewhere inside his head a little lick of triumph told him that nothing had come up at all.

A little lick of fire catches at the hem of his coat.

And seeing it had the little licks of fear leaping higher.

"And I am carrying the wild card so your little lick could have triggered the virus."