You give 'm me ten stick tobacco," he added after due pause to let the information sink in.
Dipping into his tobacco pocket, he thrust a loose handful of sticks into the ancient's hand and shoved the canoe adrift with no thought of how its helpless occupant would ever reach shore.
It is my experience that it is only an amiable man in this world who receives testimonials, only an unambitious one who abandons a London career for the country, and only an absent-minded one who leaves his stick and not his visiting-card after waiting an hour in your room."
"Has been in the habit of carrying this stick behind his master.
Red-Eye started over to pick up the
stick. Old Marrow-Bone had tottered into his way.
I own I closed my eyes at the moment when the point of the
stick first entered the quicksand.
a knife?" said Cornelius, preparing to defend himself with his
stick.
He takes off his long-flapped coat, and stands up in a long- flapped waistcoat, which Sir Roger de Coverley might have worn when it was new, picks out a
stick, and is ready for Master Joe, who loses no time, but begins his old game, whack, whack, whack, trying to break down the old man's guard by sheer strength.
From these embers the inspector disinterred the butt end of a green cheque book, which had resisted the action of the fire; the other half of the
stick was found behind the door; and as this clinched his suspicions, the officer declared himself delighted.
In a little while, three others appeared at the head of the dam, bringing
sticks and bushes.
When I stood up, fire-stick in one hand, dynamite
stick in the other, my knees were knocking together.
He struck at me with his
stick, but I caught the blow upon my little shield, and hit back.
"Not while I have a stout
stick to thwack your saucy bones!" cried Robin.
Of late they had quit attacking, or even showing themselves; for every time they had done so in the past the little
stick had roared out its terrible message of death to some member of the tribe.
Hans takes the needle,
sticks it into a hay-cart, and follows the cart home.