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Definition of Maulsticks
1. maulstick [n] - See also: maulstick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maulsticks
Literary usage of Maulsticks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1874)
"To say to your neighbour at a dinner-party, "H°*[ any one can like those horridly
vulgar daubs of maulsticks ! " tnd then to find you 've been talking to ..."
2. The National Review edited by Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1856)
"... and maulsticks rattle as loud as ever rang shield on shield and lance against
lance along a Homeric battle-field. Mr. Ruskin—an Orlando Furioso of ..."
3. Celebrities at Home by Edmund Hodgson Yates, Yates, Edmund Hodgson, 1831-1894 (1878)
"... beneath smaller windows, a deep recess in which the painter keeps his palettes,
brushes, maulsticks, and all the unsightly instruments of his art; ..."
4. Oral and Conversational Method.: Un Peu de Tout by F. Julien (1898)
"maulsticks. 7. Ses (Leurs) cerfs- His (Their) kites. volants. 6. Tes tire-bouchons.
Thy corkscrews. 8. Nos choux-fleurs. Our cauliflowers. ..."
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