Wand

Examples

• It is as useful to a friar as a broomstick to a witch, or a wand to a conjurer. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Locksley returned almost instantly with a willow wand about six feet in length, perfectly straight, and rather thicker than a man's thumb. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The burning rivers of oil were a reflection of the golden treasures which flowed into the hands and pockets of thousands as from a perpetual fountain touched by some great magician's wand. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Waving a wand, it sang. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• She might be three feet high, but she had no shape; her skinny hands rested upon each other, and pressed the gold knob of a wand-like ivory staff. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• When the repast was about to commence, the major-domo, or steward, suddenly raising his wand, said aloud,--Forbear! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I broke my wand; I threw it from me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I took out my wand--I counted the marks. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• A divining rod is a wand or twig of hazel or willow used especially for discovering metallic deposits or water beneath the earth’s surface. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It is the magician's wand, by means of which he may summon into life whatever form and mould he pleases. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I hope you have a white wand. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Order, comfort, and even health, rose under his influence, as from the touch of a magician's wand. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• No full-bottomed wig, no red petticoats, no fur, no javelin-men, no white wands. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

Edited by Bridget