"Maul-stick" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that's going a little too far. She would be more likely to look for a palette and a maul-stick." ...
— With the Procession • Henry B. Fuller
... this moment. Where should I get such a model for my Fairy Queen, I should like to know? It ought to be a great picture—a great picture, Aunt Susannah, if I can only work it out. And where should I be if she left me in the lurch? No—no; we won't forget the bundle of sticks. I'll to the maul-stick, and you and Aunt Jemima shall be as cross as two sticks; and as for Nina, with her bright eyes, and her pleasant voice, and her merry ways, I don't know what sort of a stick we should make of her." "A fiddlestick, I should think," said that young lady, entering the room ...
— M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." • G.J. Whyte-Melville |
