firestick

• “Warren's spokesman Larry Ross said the sap of a firestick plant got into Warren's eyes when he wiped his brow while gardening.”

  The Huffington Post: Firestick Plant INJURES Pastor Rick Warren, Sends Him To Hospital

• “And for Brown Bess, we'll have a cool firestick with ...”

  zornhau: Merlin's Snake Oil – or why arcanists are not artillery

• “Yes, I'll admit it, I used a firestick this year, and just after reading Stafford's poem "animals full of light/walk through the forest/toward someone aiming a gun/loaded with darkness.”

  a recent letter. What do you think?

• “He carried a firestick, a small bag on his back, and some bomarengs under his left arm.”

  Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia

• “Being a mile or two ahead of our party in a thick brush, I came suddenly upon three men; two ran off with the greatest speed; the third, who was older and a little lame, first threw his firestick at me, and next (seeing me still advance) a waddie, but with such agitation, that though not more than a dozen paces distant, he missed both me and my horse.”

  Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales

• “A few gestures mimed placement of invisible kindling, whirling a nonexistent firestick, other actions not so transparently pantomimic-and then the barest wisp of smoke sought the flue.”

  The Magic May Return

• “This weapon I bring you ... is far greater than your firestick.”

  A Private Little War

• “Fewkes called this the New Fire Ceremony, and in the course of the eight-day ceremonial the kindling of new fire with the primitive firestick does take place.”

  The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi

• “I suppose, and was startled; anyhow, never thinking what I was doing, I picked up a firestick out of the fire and flung it at the 'possum.”

  Three Elephant Power and Other Stories

• “Before taking this step, however, I rubbed off all the clayey coating on my skin, trimmed my hair and beard to a respectable length by means of a firestick, and threw away my bow, which was now my only remaining weapon; then I marched boldly into the camp.”

  Adventures of Louis de Rougemont

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