lobstick
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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"It is, of course, just possible that the man with whom your half-breed saw her was making north to the post at Lobstick Creek, and it will be as well to make an early inquiry there."
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If the lobstick is to stand a monument to a certain man or party, the names of those to be honored are written in Cree on an attached slab.
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A great honour awaits us round the next corner, when the boatmen announce that they are going to make us each a lobstick.
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We learn that the ethics of lobsticks is that each of these men, should Fate take him past this point again, will salute the lobstick just made and send a strong thought across the spruce-tops to us.
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Should we, at any time before this journey ends, fail to make good, the men on the return voyage will cut the lobstick down.
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