At last he touched the flame with his cap, and the sticks of resin caught on fire and blazed forth.
He holler out: "'One un one never kin make six, Sticks aint hawns, un hawns aint sticks!
In a negro story that is very popular, Brother Fox ties two sticks to his head, and attends the meeting of the horned cattle, but is cleverly exposed by Brother Rabbit.
He had a peculiar cap upon his head, and in this cap, in place of feathers, he had stuck four sticks of resin, or resinous pine.
Bertram saw the smoke of campfires far away to the left; and with one accord the porters commenced to beat their loads, drum-wise, with their safari sticks as they burst into some tribal chant or pæan of rejoicing.
Later Bertram discovered that it had actually cut one of the four sticks that supported his mosquito curtain, and had torn the muslin thereof.
On the table and shelf—of sticks bound together with strips of bark—Ali set forth his master’s impedimenta, and took a pride in the Home.
On an erection of sticks and withes, resembling an umbrella stand, stood an orderly array of fresh coco-nuts, the tops of which had been sliced off to display the white interior with its pint or so of sweet, limpid milk.
It lasted but a moment; so finally I made a little fire with what few dry sticks we could find, and by its light we placed the four bodies on the thwarts.
I made a little fire on the floor of the cave, though dry sticks were hard to find.
It speaks out bluff and bold, and sticks to what it says.
He sticks to his traditions and usages, and, so help him God!
If a farmer has so much as a hayfork, he sticksit into a King Dag.
And the drummer took his sticks and beat a tattoo, there by the edge of the reef; and the music of it was like a rolling chariot.
On the floor were the torn painted gauze and broken ivory sticks of a woman's fan.
The constant flutter of a fan with sandal wood sticks stirred the edge of her mantilla.
My rooms are littered with battered bags and down-at-the-heel walking sticks and still-damp steamer rugs, lying where they dropped from the hands of maudlin bellboys.
He wears no corsets, he is innocent of the monocle, he sticks to native beer.
There were three dull clashes as their sticks met, and then with a dexterous stroke, Blossom passed the ball to her Right Inner, Janie Potter.
The little old woman who entered, carrying some sticks and a basin, was difficult to identify as Fil.
That's just what I complained of--I do stick to it, or rather it sticks to me.
They have also been known to lay their eggs in the open crevices of cliffs where but little effort is made to build a nest other than the gathering together of a few sticks and twigs.
The White Pelican builds its nest on the ground using small sticks and twigs.
Whilst I was asleep the second time, Yamba went off with the dog in search of food, and returned with a young opossum, which was soon frizzling in an appetising way on a tripod of sticks over a blazing fire.
I trapped them in great numbers by means of an ingenious native arrangement of pointed sticks of wood, which, while providing an easy entrance, yet confronted the outgoing cat with a formidable chevaux-de- frise.
Very rarely, indeed, did the women allow their fire-sticks to go out altogether, for this would entail a cruel and severe punishment.
This took some time, but whilst I was doing it Yamba got ready the necessary charcoal sticks and pigments such as the blacks decorate themselves with at corroborees.
This I beat with a couple of sticks as an accompaniment to my singing, and as Bruno occasionally joined in with a howl of disapproval or a yell of joy, the effect must have been picturesque if not musical.
When everything was ready I sent out invitations by mail-men, smoke signals, and messagesticks to tribes both far and near, to come and see me set fire to the water!
The ceremony was kept up with extraordinary vigour the whole night long, but all I was required to do was to sit beating sticks together, and join in the general uproar.
It was a hopeless business, however; a full half- hour's friction only made the sticks hot, and rub as hard as I would I could not produce the faintest suspicion of a spark.
The captain thereupon went down to parley with them, but was met by a shower of blows from the heavy sticks I have just mentioned.
All the food I had was eleven sticks of dirty, sandy, smoked horse, averaging about an ounce and a half each.
A few sticks of dried pine topped by split wood of birch or maple, all well dashed with kerosene, took the flame eagerly.
Towards Christmas he had become a fairly efficient cant-hook man, and was helping roll the great sticks of timber up the slanting skids.
All winter the blacksmith, between his tasks of shoeing and mending, had occupied his time in fitting the iron-work on eight log-sleighs which the carpenter had hewed from solid sticks of timber.
If you catch one of these grubs and put it into a saucer of water with some of the dead leaves or sticks it had for a covering, you will see these leaves or sticksfloating towards the tail of the grub, and afterward driven off again.
The reason why the leather sticks so fast is because the air is pressing on it upon the outside, and there is very little or no air between it and the board, to press the other way.
The long finger-bones are just like the sticks of an umbrella; there is a thin skin between them, and they stretch it out, so that the air underneath will keep them up.
We also got hockey sticks and bastinadoed their legs for their souls' good to the great marvel of the natives.
Of course the rat was honest, for he had left a dried cactus leaf, a pine cone, and various assorted sticks and straws in place of what he took.
A warp frame with four lighter sticks forming a square was fastened within the larger frame.
It seemed they had put down a charge of four sticks and it had failed to explode.
Smith, bring a couple of sticks of guncotton from the magazine.
Tell that engineer he's in no danger so long as he sticks to his post and obeys orders.
Then everybody began to sing hard, and four young men pounded with sticks on a parfleche, in time to the music.
The counters were lying between the lines, ten of the sticks lying side by side, and two lying across the ten.
Long before Had Given up the Warpath I Killed Many Buffalo and My Mother Dressed the Hides Holding the Pipe to the Sky and to the Earth "Do Not Go, Wait a Little Longer" Watch the Men and Older Boys Playing at Sticks The Plains Country.
Attached to the roots of the floating water-plant Pistia stratiotes it assumes a spherical form, while on sticks or like objects it is spindle-shaped.
The sponge is of a brownish colour and forms flat masses of little thickness but of considerable area onsticks and on the stems of water-plants.
Accordingly, as we went along I gathered any sticks or dried grass I saw, and presently had my arms full of such litter.
Looking back presently, I could see, through the crowded stems, that from my heap of sticks the blaze had spread to some bushes adjacent, and a curved line of fire was creeping up the grass of the hill.
I put Weena, still motionless, down upon a turfy bole, and very hastily, as my first lump of camphor waned, I began collecting sticks and leaves.
Monkeys and pug-dogs were made pets of, and the sticks of the footmen fashioned into such ugly forms as no modern bogey ever dreamed of.
It would seem that at the present time the fashion of carrying walking-sticks has to a considerable extent "gone out.
To force him to confession they lighted some sticks of sulphur which they had brought with them for the purpose, and placed them under the old man's nose.
The priest previously prepared two sticks exactly like one another, upon one of which was carved a figure of the cross.
The monstrous sticks shown in the engraving are drawn from specimens which have been preserved by dealers in London, and put as a sort of sign at the doors of umbrella and walking-stick dealers.
Mrs. Roscoe lighted the lamp and put on the pink shade; then she drew the small Italian sticks together on the hearth, threw on a dozen pine cones, and with the bellows blew the whole into a brilliant blaze.
It is raining hard, and we have no shelter, but find a few sticks which have lodged in the rocks, and kindle a fire and have supper.
We have to search for some time to find a few sticksof driftwood, just sufficient to boil a cup of coffee.
Where we wish to run her out a little way from shore through a channel between rocks, we first throw in little sticks of driftwood and watch their course, to see where we must steer so that she will pass the channel in safety.
He has found out that doors have locks, and that little sticks and bits of paper can be got into the key-hole quite easily; but he does not seem very eager to get them out after they are in.
A fire was kindled at the bottom of a deep hole in the ground, big sticks were laid crosswise at the top, and meat was hung from them and turned on spits.
I know I have been a fool; but there are two kinds of fools--the kind that sticks to folly all its life, and the kind that has its fling, and has done with it.
He took up the newspaper with a sigh, and settled himself in front of the blazing fire, which was still young and leaping, with the enthusiasm of dry sticks not quite gone out of it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sticks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: backwash; backwater; backwoods; country; frontier; hinterland; sticks
