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Updated: June 6, 2025
I think we may be able to whip these three sticks out of this fellow by breakfast-time in the morning, and then a couple of hours will answer for the raft; after which, a pull of six or eight more will take us back to our own craft." "If all goes well, it may be done, sir." "Well or ill, it must be done. We are not in a situation to play at jack-straws!" "I hope if may be done, sir." "Mr. Leach!"
"I came because I had a notion you were the best man for another job a job that makes the whole brokerage business look like a game of jack-straws the job of marrying my daughter Carlotta." Phil stared. He had not expected Mr. Cressy to take this position.
The criss-cross effect resulting from combing and arranging the hair contrary to "the grain" is conspicuously apparent in the coiffure of no less a personage than Eleanora Duse, who, as may be seen from the picture, pays little attention to the natural tendency of the dark tresses that cover her shapely head. The bang has the dishevelled appearance of a pile of jack-straws.
I had been so well off, and never thought of it, ass that I was! I can still see myself, as I came to. The ground was all torn up around me, worse even than the bodies themselves lying in heaps, mixed pell-mell like a lot of jack-straws; the ground simply reeked, as if it was itself bleeding.
The vast trunks which had been broken and driven by the force of the gust lay blended like jack-straws; while their branches, still exhaling the fragrance of withering leaves, were interlaced in a manner to afford sufficient support to the hands.
"And I think it must be so, for there be five score of Colonel Sheldon's dragoons in yonder barns, drawing at jack-straws or conning their thumbs and not a vidette out not so much as a militia picket, save for the minute men which Colonel Thomas and Major Lockwood have sent out afoot."
Now it's half-past ten. I move we eat our foods, and then we can have a good time playing parcheesi or jack-straws." They drew up to the nursery table, and endeavored to enjoy the cookies and apples. "How funny things taste at night," said Kitty. "I'm not hungry, after all." "You'd better wash your face again," said Marjorie, looking at her sister's drooping eyelids.
Well, me and Mike lived in them dental parlors for a couple of weeks, decoyin' occasional natives into it, pullin', spilin', fillin', and filin' more teeth than a few, but bimeby the sport got tame. One day Mike was fakin' variations on his guitar, and I was washin' dishes, when I said: "This line is about as excitin' as a game of jack-straws. D'you know it's foot-racin' time with the Injuns?"
On the green were groupes of men shooting arrows at a mark, playing at jack-straws, football, and the various games of skill and chance by which the savage drives away ennui that demon that persecutes most fiercely at the extremes of the human condition.
It was like a Brobdingnagian game of jack-straws, as the cutting or prying loose of a single stem often brought several others crashing to earth in unexpected places, keeping us running and dodging to avoid their terrific impact. The fall of these great masts awakened a roaring swish ending in a hollow rattling, wholly unlike the crash and dull boom of a solid trunk.
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