The blessing seemed to stick in Mr Ralph Nickleby's throat, as if it were not used to the thoroughfare, and didn't know the way out.
My walking-stick is also to be seen on application to the chaplain of the House of Commons, who is strictly forbidden to take any money for showing it.
All Snawley's interest is to stick well to the story he has told; and all his risk is, to depart from it in the least.
I an't a-going to have any stories made for me, and I an't a-going to stick to any.
With this parting advice Nicholas picked up Mr Lenville's ash stick which had flown out of his hand, and breaking it in half, threw him the pieces and withdrew, bowing slightly to the spectators as he walked out.
After we had finished our meal, I asked the sturdy old fellow for a pencil, but the nearest thing he possessed was a stick of thick charcoal, and with that it was surely difficult to communicate with our fair companion.
Hither and thither she went, beating down the high bracken and tangles of weeds, poking with her stick into every hole and corner, and going further and further into the wood in the certainty that the body was therein concealed.
Well, Michael Boranski, I shall trouble you to pick up my passport, stick it together again, and apologize to me.
Indeed, conversation is not well looked upon by the bosses, and I soon see that unless I want to entail a sharp reproof for myself and them I must stick to my "side.
Whatever happens, promise that you will stick by me.
Ben started after him, but Harry picked up a stick of wood and stood on the defensive.
Seizing a little stick that lay in the path, he struck sundry vigorous blows at the reptile, which, however, seemed only to madden, without disabling him.
That we are; and if you only stick by me, it will all come out right.
I mean to stick to the boat as long as the navigation will permit," replied Ben, with more energy than he had before manifested, for he was recovering from the perturbation with which the crime he had committed filled his mind.
Rounded red boulders beside the spring contain age-old mortar holes, ground so deep you can stick your arm in up to your elbow.
You may never see the mottled gray and black walking-stick insect either, who sticks his front legs straight out in front of him to look exactly like a woody creosotebush twig.
Aunt Sarah showed them how to ice it and to stick walnut meats on top, so that it was a most delectable piece of cookery when it was done, and Daniella, who took a great interest in the performance, looked at it with great admiration.
On we plodded for hours, determined to stick it out because we had been warned that we would certainly be driven back.
One of us stuck manfully to his treasured equipment; the other borrowed the ranger's stick and attached to it his heaviest line.
He grinned at the rods, and showed us his own--a stout stick with a heavy cord tied to one end, and at the end of the cord a bent horseshoe nail.
Though these were extremely steep, the snow was in such splendid condition that we could just stick our toes in and climb right up hand over hand.
When Clinch was removed from Macroon, we had to sell off every stick and stone we had; and as the neighbors knew we must go, we didn't get five shillings in the pound by the sale.
Oh, of course a girl will stick up for another girl," retorted Tom, bound to say something in his brother's defense.
The sophomores felt they must break the offending stick into bits, while the freshmen considered it the part of honor to save the same bit of wood from destruction.
He accused her of having allowed herself to be kissed by Owlglass; and though she denied it, he took a stick and beat her till she was black and blue.
Why, my horse got a stone in its hoof, and as I had to go a few yards off to get a dry stick to pick it out with, the brute took advantage of my being away, jumped out of the cart and got into a field by the side of the road.
Preston spoke nothing, but he snatched a long stick that lay near and held it out to Sam; and so in a few minutes drew him to the shore and helped him out.
Stick to it then, and by the time the quilt and a few other things are done, as Uncle Morris said, the little wizard will find Glen Morris Cottage too hot to hold him.
If you stick to it, but I know you won't," said Hugh, interrupting his sister.
You know Jessie is learning to stick to her purposes, and that is more than anybody can say of you.
But it was rather dangerous, though he thought nothing of that; for when his head was grazing a few miles away, the hunters might stick a spear into his body, or tie his legs together, without his seeing them.
And my crumpled horns I'll stick Through your little body quick!
Let the cobbler stick to his last, or misfortune follows fast.
This man used to put a ball of cotton on a stick, and then he pulled out a bit of the cotton without breaking it, and tied it to another little stick with a weight on it.
Then the Weaver wound some more thread around a long stick called a shuttle; and the shuttle he pushed in front of one thread and behind the next, until it had gone right across the whole of the threads, in and out.
A brief burst spat from McGee's Vickers in that heart-chilling moment when collision seemed inevitable, but McGee pulled sharply back on his stick and zoomed.
Orders were forgotten and he dived, throttle wide open, stick far forward, every thought gone from his mind but the one compelling urge to get that other plane on the inside of his ring sight.
Let's stick around and watch this formation flight," McGee then said to Larkin.
When you can do stick work like that, you'll be sent up here to join us.
And as a parting defiance to his knowledge, Larkin pulled back his stickand zoomed.
Forward went the stick and he plunged down the backwash of Larkin's diving plane, his motor roaring its cadenced challenge.
Let us stick to the milk in the pan, the horse in the stall, the documents which you will find in the library.
To puncture the tire of pretence is amusing enough; but it is useless to stick tacks under the steam road-roller: the road-roller advances remorselessly and smooths down your mischievous little tacks and you too, indifferently.
Both are alive and though suffering in the reader's estimation because of their devotion to such a stick as Grandison, nevertheless touch our interest to the quick.
Oh, oh," exclaimed the policeman, "I gave him a rap with my stick before they downed me.
You know," said the boy from Bangor, "those fellows hang on like grim death when they have a grudge against anybody, and this wild and woolly scout is evidently anxious to stick his claws into us.
Stick to your flying trade, young man, as you will, but on your service the Cause has a claim, and the penalty for ignoring that claim will be exacted to the last farthing, be it blood or bones.
You just stick in here, an' Powers dasen't come in after yuh," one of them said.
Reckon I'll have to stick to outlaws' law," he grumbled.
If they touches the judge, we'll stick here until we starves 'em out," Powers declared wrathfully.
They used to let me talk to them in homes where there was not a stick of furniture, and nothing to sit down upon.
And again:-- 'We must stick to the form of sound words, for there is more in it than appears on the surface.
Though he had only one leg of the flesh, and one of wood, he did not tumble down, though he brandished in the air the stick with which he was accustomed to disport himself.
Then he made a motion as though to run after her, still brandishing the stick in his hand.
On Sundays, too, he carried an umbrella, whereas on week-days he always had a large stick; and it was observed that neither the umbrella nor the stick was adapted to the state of the weather.
In order that he might in truth make up his mind on the subject, he went out with his hat and stick into the long walk, and there thought out the matter to its conclusion.
But the first touch burnt him so badly that he let it alone, and went with nothing, except a stick in his hand, through the back door.
You are at the bottom of this, I know,' she cried; and as the father was out of the way she took a stick and beat the girl till she screamed with pain and went to bed sobbing.
And off she went to gather some flowers to stickin her hair.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stick" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
