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  • My idea is to hand to each entrant a lump of High-brow stickjaw, guaranteed not to dissolve in less than the stipulated period, and to station a lynx-eyed dentist at the foot of the stairs ....

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-05 Various 1898

  • Which do you think is the best: a fardensworth of everlasting stickjaw torfee, or a prize packet? '

    The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell 1890

  • The company lights were all extinguished; great, strong-smelling, cauliflower-headed moulds, that were always wanting snuffing, usurped the place of Belmont wax; napkins were withdrawn; second-hand table-cloths introduced; marsala did duty for sherry; and the stickjaw pudding assumed a consistency that was almost incompatible with articulation.

    Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

  • But Dick only warmed his coat tails at the fire as he said, with a very ungenerous reminiscence of his father's manner: "You are going back to an excellent establishment, where you will enjoy all the comforts of home -- I can specially recommend the stickjaw; look out for it on

    Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers F. Anstey 1895

  • "You, Macey, ought to know better: you give a chap that stickjaw stuff of yours, and then worry him to speak.

    The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias George Manville Fenn 1870

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