The ladder, which was placed against the stable under their house, at first seemed to him too high to climb, but seeing the multitude of delighted spectators who went up and down without accident, he resolved to try it, too, and so successfully that he was able after a few attempts to carry a stick with him, stand on the highest rung, and poke up the pigeons.

And always he had a stick with him.

"But how will you make a living if you stick with him?" "I dunno," Pete sighed.

And he pointed to the oaken stick with its red tip blazing against the white shimmer of sand behind it.

" "But I did stick with it," replied the shadow.

He swore to himself that in such a case he would stick with his companion, no matter who deserted.

"I'll stick with you," said Desmond.

Then holding with one hand and one foot to a timber of the cage and to the stick with his other foot, he swung outward as far as possible and reached the banana with his free hand.

Paris of the street and gutterParis, Gavroche and blackguard, rolls with laughter before the caricatures which ingenious salesmen stick with pins on shutters and house doors.

I'll stick with Haines.

I hear him long before I see him, for he carries a stick with jingling bells at the end to frighten away animals as he comes through the jungle.

Discs are often made almost solid and then fixed to the stick with an iron hasp, which is apt to snap or to split the stick.

The waving of anything (a flag or stick with an article of clothing attached) six times in a minute, repeated after an interval of one minute without signals.

But that doesn't mean that we can stick with just the most popular texts and get a proper ebook revolution.

" "Well, I'll do my best to stick with you.

Satisfied that her dwelling was safe, she drew one hand through the old man's arm, and prepared to ply her crutch-stick with the other.

The first thing that occurred to make a weak link in their chain was the acknowledgment of a certain witness that the stick with which the murder was supposed to have been committed was not left on the spot by the accused, but by himself.

Anyway I'm going to stick with you till you've found her or lost her for good.

cried Charles, breaking the stick with which he was playing tennis with the Duke of Guise and Teligny, the admiral's son-in-law; and he immediately returned to his room.

" His poverty made him the slave of Don Antolin, and in the last third of the month he came almost every day to the cloister, trying to soften Silver Stick with his prayers and induce him to lend a few pesetas.

His majesty carried in his left hand a large stick with a plated knob, and in his right a small broom to drive away flies, the handle of which was enriched with pearls.

When this is finished the boy's eye runs along the stick with a calculating squint.

Now he lays the knife aside, and grasping the stick with a firm hand below the ring in the bark, with the right hand he holds the pounded end.

If you do, I will not stick with you for an oath.

And this is the difficulty that seems chiefly to stick with the most reasonable of those, who from a mere scruple of conscience refuse to join with us upon the revolution principle; but for the rest, are I believe as far from loving arbitrary government, as any others can be, who are born under a free constitution, and are allowed to have the least share of common good sense.