He removed his toothpick.

" "Sick o' yo' deal, Peter?" inquired Bobbs, smiling and shifting the toothpick.

Push backwards with the forefinger with just enough force to break the toothpick and drive its fragments on to the cotton.

"I've got my tooth full of that cold puddin'," said I, pintin' to the dish; "please bring me an individual toothpick, so I can dig it out.

"Jim, cut the gentleman a piece," said one of the volunteers, Jim drew a toothpick a foot long and did me the favor, for which I here repeat my thanks to him.

When it arrived before the letter which it should choose to form the word required, it stopped; but if it stopped it was because it heard the noiseimperceptible to all othersof a toothpick that the American snapped in his pocket.

He had just hit the toothpick out of his enemy's hand, when he received a ball in a vital part, and was brought home speechless in a hand-barrow.

Mr. Bobbs sat listening impassively, moving his toothpick up and down from one side to the other of his small, thin-lipped mouth.

Mr. Spragg mumbled his invisible toothpick.

" Mr. Spragg said no more, but resorted to the soothing labial motion of revolving his phantom toothpick.

GOOSE CRACKLINGS (GRIEBEN) Cut the thick fat of a fat goose in pieces as big as the palm of your hand, roll together and run a toothpick through each one to fasten.

A boy sold toothpicks.

And taking a toothpick out of his pocket he stuck it into the stump of the cigarette which had become too short to hold between his fingers.

" The officer tipped up his toothpick so that it lifted his upper lip in a little v-shaped opening and exposed a strong, yellowish tooth.

"A parterre box costs a hundred and twenty-five dollars a night," said Mr. Spragg, transferring a toothpick to his waistcoat pocket.

When she came to him with a grievance he always heard her out with the same mild patience; but the long habit of "managing" him had made her, in his own language, "discount" this tolerance, and when she ceased to speak her heart throbbed with suspense as he leaned back, twirling an invisible toothpick under his sallow moustache.

If she has, we can use wooden toothpicks.

," said Patsy, "he's a detective, and I'll bet a toothpick to a match that he's on the wrong scent.

They fancied the Yankees would sit down on the fences and begin to whittle white-oak toothpicks, darning the rebels, through their noses, meanwhile.

My chief object in going there was achieved when I played with the parrot, and induced it to bite a quill toothpick.