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Updated: June 6, 2025
The logs air ricked up jest like Rose's jack-straws; I never see 'em so turrible ricked up in all my exper'ence; an' Lije Dennett don' know no more 'bout pickin' a jam than Cooper's cow. Turrible sot in his ways, too; can't take a mite of advice.
"Take my studio!" "With you and Miss Brooke in the neighborhood? Never!" "We will let you alone. In a week you will put your head out of the door and say: 'Please come and play jack-straws with me!" Catherine was not pleased at the thought that her usefulness was at an end.
He played with the incommunicable, the inconceivable, the absolute, the antinomies, as he would have played with a bundle of jack-straws. "Brahma," the poem which so mystified the readers of the "Atlantic Monthly," was one of his spiritual divertisements. To the average Western mind it is the nearest approach to a Torricellian vacuum of intelligibility that language can pump out of itself.
Percival, who took an interest in every thing which entertained his children, were looking on at this simple game. "Mr. Percival," said Belinda, "condescending to look at a game of jack-straws!" "Yes," said Lady Anne; "for he is of Dryden's opinion, that, if a straw can be made the instrument of happiness, he is a wise man who does not despise it." "Ah!
Why, in half an hour they might split her spars as small as jack-straws!" "Which they won't, I think; because, if they know who she is, they know her cargo's safe where Noll himself can't get at it, unless he drags the cellars and the stomachs too, by this time of half his prayer-loving subjects along the Kent and Essex coast."
What an impassable barrier between them and us! and, with the exception of the youngest of them, how brutal and low! To see such splendidly-formed men spend their time squatted on the earth, playing jack-straws, or some equally silly game, from morning to night, is pitiful. And then their yelling and laughter are more like wild beasts or demons than human beings.
When she doesn't watch, she prays. Sometimes she wants me to pray with her, but praying don't come easy to me." "Neither does it to me," said Patty. "I'm good at marbles and checkers and back-gammon and jack-straws, though." "So am I," said Patty, laughing, "so we should be good friends. I'll try to get a chance to see you soon again, but perhaps I can't; I'm a good deal tied at home."
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