They were of all types: skiffs and wherries and canoes and snub-nosed punts, with a great number of short, sharply rounded craft, new to my American observance, and called cockles, very precisely adapted to contain one girl, who had to sit with her eyes firmly fixed on the young man with the oars, lest a glance to this side or that should oversee the ticklishly balanced shell.
"London Films"
W.D. Howells
He drew out the barrow, and ticklishly wheeled it into the house, as far as the foot of the stairs.
"The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories"
Arnold Bennett