Nor were there any complaints about the Stockyard fries - crisp, sturdy sticks of potato.

He glanced at Mrs. MacNab's sturdy stick and gnarled limbs, then at me.

Around the shady, darkened entrances to the forests were gangs of youths armed with bags of peanuts and sturdy sticks.

Piemur found a sturdy stick and began to pound around the rod hole.

He searched until he located a long sturdy stick, dragged it back and wedged one end be-tween the logs which trapped Telemark's foot.

He was tall but stooped, as if suffering some affliction of the spine, and he walked with a sturdy stick.

A number of elderly folk favored sensible shoes and sturdy walking sticks.

He found a sturdy stick on the floor of the cistern and held it in his right hand, the flashlight in his left.

I hustled to the bank and found a sturdy two-foot stick.

Shreave groped around for a rock or a sturdy stick, but all he came up with was a handful of oyster shards.