Drum Sticks

No matter for opening them, said I: thy fingers, friend, are as stiff as drum-sticks. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He ran over sticks, stones and ditches; he lost drum-sticks, sabre, bow, and air-pistol, and in his terrible hurry he tripped over a tuft of grass. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He fumbled through his paper bag of chicken bones and brought out two drum-sticks, crossing them the way he had the night of the first spell. ❋ Tananarive Due (2003)

Vols. 7, 8 and 9 GOLDEN DAYS and a pair of mahogany drum-sticks for a piccolo. ❋ Various (N/A)

His wife never got any of the white meat -- the drum-sticks were good enough for her. ❋ S. G. Bayne (N/A)

First a small drummer - boy passes, with a cocked hat, and poised drum-sticks. ❋ Constance D'Arcy Mackay (N/A)

We have seen perfect "drum-sticks" formed by grafting a full-grown plant of this on the stem of a Cereus. ❋ W. Watson (N/A)

"Where are your drum-sticks?" asked his mother, again. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

His drum-sticks will be the drum-sticks of turkeys -- his cannon, the popping of corks. ❋ Various (N/A)

Drummer John Christian, I'll have to get you a new pair o 'drum-sticks for that.' ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

The drum-sticks fell with a boom, and the men swung forward to the crash of the band. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

"That's a little bit o better, ain't it?" chirped the Cockney, and skipping over the fallen man, he was at the Parson's side, in the thick and fury of it, bringing down his drum-sticks to the battle-cry of, ❋ Alfred Ollivant (1900)

He saw a pair of twinkling legs, a huge drum, belly-borne, and two drum-sticks, brandished vaingloriously, driving a rout of men before them. ❋ Alfred Ollivant (1900)

Before she had time to speculate further, the mayor reappeared with drum and drum-sticks in one hand and a pair of sabots in the other. ❋ Unknown (1899)

But now the drummers had stepped out into the centre of the square and were drawing their drum-sticks from the brass sockets in their baldricks. ❋ Unknown (1899)

In the centre of the square she stood a moment, looking around, then raised the drum-sticks; there came a click, a flash of metal, and the quiet square echoed with the startling outcrash. ❋ Unknown (1899)

"Go, my child," said the mayor, amiably, and Jacqueline marched through the garden out into the square by the fountain, drum-sticks clutched in one tanned fist, the scrolls of paper in the other. ❋ Unknown (1899)

For example, the projecting house-beams are sometimes carved in the shape of crocodiles, birds, and grotesque human figures; and their canoes, paddles, head-rests, drums, drum-sticks, and vessels are also decorated with carving. ❋ James George Frazer (1897)

The difference between the Che-hsein, eating little prepared meatballs and rice, with gilded chop-sticks, and myself tearing the spraggly-looking rooster asunder and gnawing the drum-sticks greedily with my teeth, no doubt readily appeals to the interested lookers-on as an instructive picture of ❋ Thomas Stevens (1894)

It is made on the same principle, but instead of being round is inclined to be long in shape, The player uses his hands instead of drum-sticks, and when one becomes accustomed to it I do not think the sound of a tom-tom can be called unmusical. ❋ Unknown (1890)

I have [drumsticks] ❋ Po Po Joe (2003)

[Drum sticks] … in the morning, [drumsticks] in the evening … [drum sticks] is all I got … Haha bet you don’t find that musical [biscuit] … Hmmm .. but then again … ❋ LetsTalkAboutX (2023)

Its [just] a [big] [spliff] ❋ Mr Smith (2005)

She [said] she [wanted] on his wrinkled [drumstick]. He has a wrinkled drum stick. ❋ JMac412 (2011)

Did you see that [Janie] and [Larz] are going out now? Well Fuck me with a drum stick and call me Mrs. Cool. Also: Hey i read [Tre' cool's] birth name is Frank Edwin Wright the Third. Well Fuck me with a drum stick and call me Mrs. Cool. ❋ Sam Pardee (2009)

Tyrone used his [big African drum stick] on [uncle] [Edward]. ❋ Fishnuggets66 (2023)