old stick

Who knew what this dry old stick might not have heard?

"I've been called an old stick before this, I might as well act like one."

It was hard to imagine him as one of those stiff old sticks.

"My dear, it would be difficult for an old stick like me to answer all your questions.

To Swan it just looked like a weird old stick.

Fair old stick you gave those two at the next table.'

You change, or you turn into a dry old stick.

He was a dry old stick of a man who looked to have been in his mid-sixties.

"I'll be dry as a old stick fence before we get back to Kentucky."

Father can be such an old stick in the mud sometimes.'

Well happy birthday to you old stick, but I'm afraid that's just the nature of the beast.

Grace, sometimes you are an old stick, she said.

"You are a funny old stick," she said, quite quietly.

A branch or two, a few old sticks and suchlike-anything to keep the fire going.

Why did he go over to old Vic to give us the old stick?

She heard it from that dry old stick, Simpson.

I knew I was taking some rare old stick mentally, though.

Sucking away all my positive energy and leaving me dry like a sack of old sticks.

The flash had tossed the Magus away like an old stick.

And not so much of the old stick.

"An artist, like a child, is happier with just a few old sticks to fire his imagination," wrote another of Smith's friends.

She was silent a moment, a bundle of old sticks inside the housecoat.

She's a funny old stick but she's been sent from heaven today.

"Don't be an old stick in the mud," Catherine called back.

Oh, David's father, he's such an old stick nowadays, he wants everyone to jump to attention when he comes in the room.