chop-stick

But a few days ago, I received an exciting, strange little parcel: at first I thought someone had sent me a single chop-stick.

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Instead, my hand came down on the long red lacquer-ware box beside it, tipping open the top to reveal a collection of hair - and hat-pins and the single carved ivory chop-stick that she had used to tease loose portions of hair.

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Instead, my hand came down on the long red lacquer-ware box beside it, tipping open the top to reveal a collection of hair - and hat-pins and the single carved ivory chop-stick that she had used to tease loose portions of hair.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

"Those oysters are lovely," said the girl as she speared with a chop-stick a small one which had been roasted in the shell.

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The first "allutok" was simply a small stick like the Chinese chop-stick.

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This last is nothing very wonderful to an American, but is remarkable in France, where the average cook usually does the work quite as efficiently with a two-tined fork, or something which greatly resembles a chop-stick.

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"China," corrected Amy, "China, the Land of the Chink and the chop-stick."

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Then tossing the bowl up he caught it inverted on the chop-stick, and made it whirl as rapidly as possible.

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This same performer set a bowl whirling on the end of a chop-stick.

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He tossed the bowl a foot high, and struck it with the other chop-stick one, two, three, four or five times before it came down, and this he did so rapidly and regularly as to make it sound almost like music.

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