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Examples
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"Dis for 'ou!" repeated Popsey, cheerfully, pushing the long sugar-stick into her hand.
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The groom hung on to his bride's arm like a fly to a sugar-stick.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales
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Wooden stands here and there still disfigured some of the house fronts, and here and there a red pole, looking like a sugar-stick that
Impressions of a War Correspondent George Lynch
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On one occasion after leaving the banquet of this Guild I beheld Whistler -- "Jimmy" of the snowy tuft, the martyred butterfly of the "peacock room" -- to whose impressionable soul the very thought of a sugar-stick should be direst agony, actually making his way homewards hugging a great box of lollipops!
The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) Harry Furniss
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Pillars, modeled on the sugar-stick posts that advertise barber's shops, ran up and lost themselves among the flies.
Who Cares? a story of adolescence Cosmo Hamilton 1910
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A man will sit for hours consuming a cigar as if it were a sugar-stick; but I should imagine it to be a very disagreeable sugar-stick.
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Don't cry, I will break off one of my fingers so that you may have a sugar-stick ....
The Blue Bird: a Fairy Play in Six Acts Maurice Maeterlinck 1905
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His pockets are full of it and each of his fingers is a sugar-stick ....
The Blue Bird: a Fairy Play in Six Acts Maurice Maeterlinck 1905
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Katty Ann was rapidly examining tall bottles of sugar-stick, accustomed receptacles apparently for the pen.
All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches Martin Ross 1903
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_L'Heureuse_ missed her stroke, as we have told, it went like a sugar-stick, flinging him and his companions back across the bench.
The Blue Pavilions Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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