33 examples of drumsticks in sentences

But when the package was undone there were broad grins, for dainty sandwiches flanked by a generous assortment of wings and drumsticks, connected at one time with a number of spring chickens, came into view, besides some pickles, and even a bunch of cookies, which Frank assured his chums had been actually made by the fair hands of Nellie herself.

Had she been in the habit, like a continental princess I have dined with, of taking her leg of chicken by the drumstick and gnawing the flesh, it had been far better for him now.

She hated drumsticks and all that they stood for in life.

She heard the double blow of his drumstick baton....

The broad massive rib bones are crunched in two as easily as a dog would snap the drumstick of a fowl.

"I'll save you!" cried Buddy, and he got so excited that he threw away his drum, and the drumsticks and the flag, only he tossed the flag safely on shore, where it wouldn't get wet, for he loved the flag, even if it was only a make-believe one.

Bulgaria was to take the back and the great part of the body, Greece was to annex the drumsticks and the second joint.

outbut I duno what it was"and as he finished he vanished from the apartment, and might soon after have been seen with his mouth in close contact with the drumstick of a turkey.

" A THANKSGIVING DREAM, "He stood up on his drumsticks.

And then a great big gobbler, that was on a platter there, He stood up on his drumsticks, and he says, "You boy, take care!

A woman with a creamy voice, and finished in alto rilievo, would be a variety in the boarding-house,a little more marrow and a little less sinew than our landlady and her daughter and the bombazine-clad female, all of whom are of the turkey-drumstick style of organization.

"Dinner was waiting, I remember, a regular old-fashioned New England dinner with a stuffed sucking pig and a big turkey with his drumsticks in the air.

The polished instruments of the musicians flashed in the sun; over the slanting drums the drumsticks rose and fell, but in the thundering cheers not a sound could be heard from brass or parchment.

Bells were rung, papers thrown out, a drum accompaniment to the piano played, as by Mr. Keeler, and the drumsticks thrown out.

The drumsticks kept time to music, rapped on the wall, appeared above the edge of the curtain several times, brightly illuminated, as if dipped in electric light or some phosphorescent substance.

The test consisted simply in putting a dab of printer's ink on one of the drumsticks at the very last moment before the séance began.

Soon were heard the deep breathings preceding the trance, then the 'Indian' began to manifest, at first somewhat sullenly, as if not pleased with the conditions, some of the instruments sounded, and at last the drumsticks began their tattoo.

Slender, silvery drumsticks, On an ancient drum, Beat the mellow music Bidding life to come.

Slender, silvery drumsticks Beat the long tattoo God, the Great Musician, Calling life anew.

perhaps you have a Christmas turkey at home, with a wife opposite, and a brace of boys waiting for drumsticks.

" "No,my boys, like cherubs, await their own drumsticks.

At Villiers as at Charly, it was the garde champetre who was charged with this solemn mission, and the old man made a most pathetic figure as he stood there with his drumsticks in his hand, his spectacles pushed back, and the perspiration rolling down his tanned and withered cheeks.

"They are a musical race, I see," observed Aunt Maria, pointing to a pair of painted drumsticks tipped with gay feathers, and a reed wind-instrument with a bell-shaped mouth like a clarionet.

A military camp was near me, and although I made no move, my mind was up and busy as the drumsticks over the hill.

But nigh on two years later, Master Robert was born, as fine and lusty and straight-limbed as a chrisom could be, while the other could not walk a step, but sat himself about on the floor, a-moaning and a-fretting with the legs of him for all the world like the drumsticks of a fowl, and his hands like claws, and his face wizened up like an old gaffer of a hundred, or the jackanapes that Martin Boats'n brought from Barbary.

33 examples of  drumsticks  in sentences