He dipped into a side coat-pocket for the mintage of the Solomons and stripped off a
stick from the handful of pressed
sticks.
There are certainly one or two indications upon the
stick.
He staggered backward, dropping his
stick, and almost fell off the cliff.
It was all that was left of Spanker-- the
stick with which he had been tied.
I advanced, in this manner, more than half way along the
stick, without encountering anything but the edges of the rocks.
Yes, who lays hands," said Gryphus, mad with rage, "but there is not a word about a
stick in the regulation.
The shepherd steps round and strikes, and the point of his
stick just grazes Willum's forehead, fetching off the skin, and the blood flows, and the umpire cries, "Hold
He was sorry the idea had not come into his mind in the days before his daughter Louise had been born and thought that surely now when he had erected a pile of burning
sticks in some lonely place in the woods and had offered the body of a lamb as a burnt offering, God would appear to him and give him a message.
And he briefly narrated what the maid had seen, and showed the broken
stick.
This end of the
stick rises about four inches above the surface of the water, the other end is planted between the jaws of the trap.
It came when he was full of gin, and we, being in the same fix, just watched him shove a cap and short fuse into a
stick of dynamite and stroll down toward the boat.
For where his
stick had struck her on the forehead there came a sore that would not be healed, and in the sore grew an abscess, and the abscess ate inwards till it came to the brain.
So he flourished his own
stick and planted himself in the traveler's path.
He had seen many of his kind go to their deaths before the loud noise made by the little black
stick in the hands of the strange white ape who lived in that wonderful lair, and Kerchak had made up his brute mind to own that death-dealing contrivance, and to explore the interior of the mysterious den.
Hans takes the needle,
sticks it into a hay-cart, and follows the cart home.
