If every black cloud had a cyclone in it, the world would have been blown into toothpickslong ago.
You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
When the toothpicks are removed and the problem solved, ask them to Lift Three Safety-Matches with One Toothpick.
Put the candy in oiled paper, place it in the hollow vegetable and fit the lid on the top, where it can be secured by using wooden toothpicks as tacks (Fig.
Let us see you take away five toothpicks and leave three perfect squares.
Spanning the water you may have a beautiful bridge of toothpicks or safety-matches.
Some matches are made of such brittle stuff as to be unsuited for this, and others are too short and thick to bend, but good slender matches can be used, and wooden toothpicks are even better.
An' I'll take three more toothpicks with you on them same odds that it'll be sure-enough hell.
He can turn out toothpicks to compete with Michigan.
But willow toothpicks are preferable to all others; and they have the advantage of being the most cleanly, for they generally break in the using, and are thrown away.
Toothpicks of metal are too hard, and are apt to injure the gums.
Moti Guj tucked the brown baby comfortably between his forefeet, that could have knocked into toothpicks all Chihun's hut, and waited for his food.
Continue pushing in the toothpicks until the apple resembles Fig.
On the tops of the last toothpicks fasten another slice of apple, then stick in more toothpicks and so on, always remembering to place the top toothpicks in the spaces on the apple slice left between the lower toothpicks.
Take the slice next in size and push it down tight on top of the four toothpicks (Fig.
You can make feet of two green leaves stuck on the ends of the two front toothpicks (Fig.
Make the bent toothpicks balance the apple perfectly, so that the porcupine will stand firmly on its feet without other support.
These three toothpicks will enable the rose girl to stand alone; the two foremost serve as legs and the other as a support.
Then stick three wooden toothpicks in the top of the rose (Fig.
Cut the fruit into rather thick slices, select the middle slice, that being the largest, and stick four toothpicks into it (Fig.
Skewer into shape with toothpicks and arrange [Page 147] in a baking-dish.
Cut into strips, season with salt, pepper, and butter, roll up, and tie or fasten with toothpicks or skewers.
He drew threetoothpicks from his pocket, and putting them behind his back, broke one.
He held up the remaining two toothpicks Jack gazed at them earnestly.
We ain't a-going to be, sir, so long as we have these 'ere toothpicks to fight with.
Now then, if that chap will only come to-morrow night, and forget another of these sharp-pointed toothpicks for Mister Archie, I shall be very much obliged.
And here are your oars, mister," supplemented Mr. Trotter, handing another pair of toothpicks to Dan Dalzell.
Here," announced Midshipman Trotter, taking two toothpicks from a pocket, "are a pair of oars.
Figure 134 shows how two burnt matches or toothpicks are lashed to the legs of the horses for supports, and Fig.
Toothpicks are of just the right size for balusters.
At the middle, where the toothpicks touch, tie a bright ribbon, leaving a loop by which to hang it.
Half of a slice, with halves of toothpicks for legs, makes a very suitable seat for this remarkable table.
Other Things to Make of an Apple When an apple is cut across into round slices, you can make a doll's table of the largest slice by using four wooden toothpicks for legs, pushing them into the apple at equal distances apart.
It is best to use the wooden toothpicks in making the house.
Take half of an orange-skin and stick the sharp ends of four wooden toothpicks into the edge of its rim.
Hold the cup in your left hand with the short, green stem hanging down; the stem is the animal's head; then break off about half an inch from the blunt ends of four wooden toothpicks and use the longest parts for legs.
Spread the bottom ends of the toothpicks out a trifle like a tripod to make the flower stand steady (Fig.
To turn a corner all you have to do is to push the toothpicks which form the upper and lower crosspieces of a new section in at the back of the top and bottom peas of an end section of the fence.
Daffodil Dancers To make a flower stand alone and give it feet to dance on, push three wooden toothpicks firmly up under the little yellow skirt into the centre of the blossom.
Place the toothpicks upright, at equal distances apart, and they will form the pillars to support the golden, dome-shaped roof.
This third upright is made by shortening two toothpicks and joining them with a pea, then fitting them in between the pea at the top of the peak and the pea at the middle of the crosspiece.
Select the largest one you can find and push the ends of three toothpicksor broom-straws into the under-side for the table legs (Fig.
Shorten two toothpicks by breaking half an inch off each of them, then join them as you did the uprights by pushing one end of each stick into a large pea (Fig.
Chops with the bones removed, the tail ends wrapped around the meat and secured with wooden toothpicks or with small skewers until cooked, resemble in form filets mignons.
Insert two toothpicks opposite each other on each half.
From one-half inch on each side of toothpick cut through the skin around the grapefruit one-fourth inch from the top of each half, leaving skin whole where toothpicks are inserted.
Toothpicks may be useful in removing any particles inaccessible to the brush.
Metallic toothpicksshould not be used, as they injure the enamel.
Such articles, in the shape of toothpicks and ear-picks, often richly gemmed and enamelled, were very commonly worn hanging from a fine gold chain or thread about the neck.
Elaborate toothpicks are occasionally seen in pictures, as in the Venetian portrait of a young man in the National Gallery of Ireland.
How would the writers, who caught "the manners as they rise," have been astonished that now no decorous person would be unaccompanied by what Massinger in contempt calls Thy case of toothpicks and thy silver fork!
Toothpicks seem to have come in with forks, as younger brothers of the table, and seem to have been borrowed from the nice manners of the stately Venetians.
Animals can be made from potatoes, using toothpicks for legs and tails.
This was made on silk cord with the toothpicks tied about two inches apart, crossways, with a small loop in the cord.
Have a large bowl of water with three chestnuts in it and let each guest be given two toothpicks to try to get the chestnuts out of the water with the toothpicks, without getting the fingers wet.
This cake stood on a high cake-stand and around the edge of the stand were a row of clothes-pins, the kind with a spring, and a row of toothpicks sticking all around the edge of the cake.
Roll up the slices, pinning withtoothpicks to keep the dressing in.
Skewer to liver with toothpicks several pieces of bacon, put a little hot water in the bag and bake at least one hour in a hot oven.
Don Rosendo Belinchon, a cod merchant of such renown, a dealer in toothpicks as well?
He had often held forth on toothpicks to the assembly of respected matrons of the town generally gathered in Dona Raffaelo's shop, but "The Light" was the subject of his discourse to-day.
Toothpicks are of just the right size for [Illustration: FIGS.
A Porcupine= is simple to make out of a long, straight cork with toothpicks cut into small pieces for quills, and stuck into the cork as close as you can place them.
The leader has charge of the "horns" which may be toothpicks or pieces of paper twisted up tight.
Plenty of toothpicksmust be provided for the legs, ears and tails.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toothpicks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
