9613 examples of sticks in sentences

With all his turns, and shifts, and tricks, He's docile, and at nothing sticks.

Inside the gate lay various rubbisha woman's boot, a broken coal scuttle, the foot of a tin candlestick, fragments of paper, sticks, bones, strawunmentionable abominations; and over the dismal scene a reeking, smoke-laden fog spread darkness and moisture.

1 carrot, 1 turnip, 4 leeks or 3 small onions, 4 sprigs parsley, 4 sticks celery, 1 tea-cup pearl barley, 3 qts.

water, 4 sticks celery, 2 teaspoons herb powder, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, 1 oz. butter.

(Keep any large coarse sticks, if such are unavoidably present, for soup.)

1/4 oz. prepared agar-agar, 2 sticks chocolate, 1-1/2 pints milk, 1 tablespoon sugar, vanilla flavouring.

Then the finely chopped inside sticks of a tender head of celery are very good.

They handed to one another the bundles of straw and sticks on which they sat (for it is the custom of the Gauls to sit when drawn up in order of battle, as has been asserted in former commentaries), of which they had great plenty in their camp, and piled them in the front of their line; and at the close of the day, on a certain signal, set them all on fire at one and the same time.

Then there were Siwashes from Vancouver, Cassiars from the Gold Mountains, Teslin men, and even Sticks from the Yukon Country.

He was known for a chief over the Sticks of the Yukon, and further naught was known of him.

Grasping two blazing sticks by the charred ends, she faced the brutes.

Eleven hundred sticks they cut, And all of them good size; With a five mile long water-butt, "In which to float," Tom cries, And "Time," they said"flies!

Their game, as witnessed among the Cheyennes, is played with beads, little loops and long horn sticks made of deer foot.

An Indian fire would be considered a very cheerless affair by the inmates of houses heated by modern appliances; but such as it isa few sticks burning with feeble blaze and scarcely penetrating the dense smoke filling the tepee from the ground to the small opening at the topit consumes fuel, and the demand is always greater than the supply, for the reason that an Indian has no idea of preparation for future necessities.

The Seris go at night and with sticks knock over as many birds as they require.

The blows from these sticks tore his flesh to pieces; his blood spouted out so as to stain their arms, and he groaned, prayed, and shuddered.

The archers soon returned, and after giving him some blows with their sticks, bade him rise and follow them.

"When the boys saw that their arrows were not swift enough to kill such a great animal they decided to use the magic rabbit sticks which their father, the sun, had given them, with orders that they were only to be used when the arrows failed.

When they came to the most dangerous spot, where it was so narrow that even a mountain lion had to be careful, they both suddenly drew their magic sticks and, giving her a great shove, sent her over the side of the narrow rocky ledge and down she fellto be dashed to pieces thousands of feet below.

She was very angry with Nikoochis, for he would not allow her even to gather the dry sticks that fell to the ground in the forest he was guarding.

That they must first in some way crack it with their magic rabbit sticks, and then they could shoot their arrows into his brain.

When he had cut a hole big enough to let in some air and sunshine he took up his magic singing sticks and began singing, for the purpose of reviving all those imprisoned with him.

They saw that she was moving about as if she were intent upon domestic work; and, by-and-by, there she was busy with coals and sticks brought from their respective places, putting on the fire, which she lighted with the indispensable spunk applied to the spark in the tinder-box.

At the upper end of the Rue de Rennes, beside a plot of waste and, was a stall where an old woman sold dusty ginger-bread and sticks of stale barley-sugar.

In support of stagnation stands the power of every kind of governmentthe King who sticks to his inherited importance, the Lords who stick to their lands and titles, the experts who stick to their theories, the officials who stick to their incomes, routine, and leisure, the Members of Parliament who stick to their seats.

9613 examples of  sticks  in sentences