fiddle-stick

“A free fiddle-stick!” she had once said to Kate — not, however, communicating to her innocent sister the ambition which was already filling her own bosom.

Harry Heathcote of Gangoil 2004

How do the slight touches of the chisel, the pencil, the pen, the fiddle-stick, et caetera, — give the true swell, which gives the true pleasure! —

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

How do the slight touches of the chisel, the pencil, the pen, the fiddle-stick, et caetera, — give the true swell, which gives the true pleasure! —

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

Waiting in the chamber of a man of fashion, whom he instructs in the divine science of music, having first tuned his instrument, he opens his crotchet-book, shoulders his violin, flourishes his fiddle-stick, and,

The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler

"Among the figures of saints with which the great door is decorated, one is distinguished who would play very well on the fiddle, if his fiddle-stick were not broken."

A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792 Richard Twiss

Heigh, heigh! the devil rides upon a fiddle-stick: what’s the matter?

Act II. Scene IV. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914

Jesse was happy if ever a man was, for he were th 'conductor an' th 'first fiddle an' th 'leadin' singer, beatin 'time wi' his fiddle-stick, till at times he'd rap with it on the table, and cry out, "Now, you mun all stop; it's my turn."

Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

It belonged to him, and it stood up in a big case alongside o 'th' eight-day clock, but Willie Satterthwaite, as played it in the chapel, had getten deaf as a door-post, and it vexed Jesse, as he had to rap him ower his head wi 'th' fiddle-stick to make him give ower sawin 'at th' right time.

Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

Satterthwaite, as played it in the chapel, had getten deaf as a door - post, and it vexed Jesse, as he had to rap him ower his head wi 'th' fiddle-stick to make him give ower sawin 'at th' right time.

Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

A man will saw a piece of wood, and make a box, though a clumsy one; but give him a fiddle and a fiddle-stick, and he can do nothing. '

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887