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Example sentences for "crooked stick"

  • We broke it to him as gently as possible that we did not plough with a crooked stick in America, but with such ploughs as were used in England.

  • We saw men ploughing with a single cow and a crooked stick in a manner that has prevailed here always.

  • So the silly maiden had to take the crooked stick at last, and return with it in her hand, amidst the jeering of the beautiful trees which she had formerly despised.

  • If you were less hard to please, you would have better luck; but you will pass many a good man by, and come out with a crooked stick.

  • Let me add a Woodcraft proverb which should also have its mead of comfort--The Great Spirit can draw a straight line with a crooked stick.

  • The witch took the stick, waved it at the girl and said: "then this is your fortune; through the woods and through the woods and out with a crooked stick.

  • Cincinnatus, 110 --is not a crooked stick, ib.

  • Cincinnatus, 445 is not a crooked stick, ib.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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