"Me give 'm five
stick," the six-quart steward bargained.
"Because this
stick, though originally a very handsome one has been so knocked about that I can hardly imagine a town practitioner carrying it.
The governor lowered the staff, and as he did so the old man who had the
stick handed it to the other old man to hold for him while he swore, as if he found it in his way; and then laid his hand on the cross of the staff, saying that it was true the ten crowns that were demanded of him had been lent him; but that he had with his own hand given them back into the hand of the other, and that he, not recollecting it, was always asking for them.
I caught hold of the
stick with my hands, but such was his strength that he jerked me into the crevice.
I shot it out of the pack in a moose pasture over 'on Little
Stick. An' Ol' Villan cried like a baby.
Following the memorandum as our guide, we next laid my
stick in the necessary direction, as neatly as we could, on the uneven surface of the rocks.
Gryphus flourished his
stick above his head, but Van Baerle moved not, and remained standing with his arms akimbo.
The weapon is a good stout ash
stick with a large basket handle, heavier and somewhat shorter than a common single-stick.
The
stick untied from Jerry's neck told the tale of her perfidy and incensed Lamai, who sprang between and deflected the blow with a stone poi-pounder that might have brained Jerry.
"It's a good dog that
sticks up for its bone," Billy championed.
She roughly forced the
stick into my hand; she turned her poor shapeless shoulders to me; waiting for the blow.
He made himself a sling with rubber bands and a forked
stick and went off by himself to gather nuts.