stickful
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stickfuls
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You know, they send in a little stickful of who spent the day with whom, and who's shingling his barn.
From Time Magazine Archive
Otherwise the decease of consuls at their posts rarely makes more than a stickful of home news.
From Time Magazine Archive
Slogging up and down the riverbank in trousers wet to the knees, his Bible in one hand and another stickful of fire-blackened fish in the other, he waved his bounty in a threatening manner.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
The matter was not even a nine-days' wonder, for other things occupied the attention of the press, and a stickful was the most it ever got in any paper.
From The Lost Valley by James Morgan Walsh
Not a soul about the place, no copy, not a stickful of live matter on the galleys!
From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales by Ambrose Bierce
He spiels off two or three stickfuls and then stops.
From The House of Torchy by Arthur William Brown
It is irksome work and difficult work to condense an hour's talk into three stickfuls, and few reporters know exactly how to go about it.
From Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing by Grant Milnor Hyde
McClintock waves his hand affectionately at one of his mules, and then hurls a few stickfuls of minion type at the mob of shoppers.
From Options by O. Henry
The weather is taken as the excuse for two or three stickfuls of print which explain and comment upon weather conditions, past, present and future.
From Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing by Grant Milnor Hyde
Copy-readers yelled frantically through tubes, and received columns of proofs which, under the ruthless slaughter of their blue pencils, returned as "stickfuls," that room might be made for the great story.
From The Clarion by William Dodge Stevens
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