Sticks

Examples

• The surplus water is best removed by centrifugal pumps, since sand and sticks which would clog the valves of an ordinary pump are passed along without difficulty by the rotating wheel. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He was careful to cut the sticks of the proper width, so that the letters would not be too far apart when they should be used for printing. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• You've got no call to come an' talk about sticks o' these primises, as you woon't give a stick tow'rt mending. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• At the shore, where the ice has been partly forced out along the banks, it will be full of grass, leaves, pebbles and sticks, and presents a broken and frosted appearance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Long ages ago man had learned to make fire by patiently rubbing two sticks together, or by twirling a round one between his hands with its point resting upon a flat piece of wood. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He took the wood of the fence, the sticks of the vines, and hurried back with them to the furnace. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• At the power house the canal is furnished with a gate, and with cribs to keep back the obstructions, such as sticks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• How young Woolwich cleans the drum-sticks without being of ostrich descent, his anxious mother is at a loss to understand. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He provides the pitch, and I handle it, and it sticks to me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The herrings caught and cured at sea are called sea-sticks. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• There were sticks that supported vines, and a fence that ran between his land and the next. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He determined to own one of these long, pointed sticks, but he could not take one on this trip because of the arrows he meant to carry. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I believe it is a mere fire of dry sticks, blazing up and vanishing. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• In such a case, it is important not to use cotton batting, since this sticks to the rough surface and causes pain when removed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Here and there a ball still sticks in a wall, and from it iron tears trickle down and discolor the stone. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• And the more trouble a young un is, and the more good for nothing, as a gen'l thing, the tighter they sticks to 'em. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Stir your stumps and get some more sticks. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It was all very well to ride on sticks at home and call them ideas. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He has filled the house with walking-sticks of his own making, not one of which he ever takes up for a second time. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• This door sticks so! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Stones, gravel and sticks must be removed, otherwise the contraction of the clay and expansion of the stones on burning, produce a weak and crumbling structure. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• They fell upon D'Arnot tooth and nail, beating him with sticks and stones and tearing at him with claw-like hands. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I have sixty sticks dynamite. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Instead of sticks. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Carriage sticks fast, while Cudjoe on the outside is heard making a great muster among the horses. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• They may have used sharpened sticks as arrows. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He prepared one by fastening two cross sticks to a silk handkerchief, which would not suffer so much from the rain as paper. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• There's one thing I made out pretty clear when I used to go to church--and it's this: God A'mighty sticks to the land. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Probably some of the women would hunt good flints; they would fish them out of the chalk with sticks and bring them to the squatting-place. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He would have many of the larger birds and smaller mammals, which he could easily secure by throwing stones and sticks, or by setting simple snares. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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