In his hands he clutched a fiddle and fiddlestick.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference

Your card-purse? you a card-purse! you a fiddlestick.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal to Stella] Reference

"A mortal fiddlestick -- where's Leonard Fairfield, I say?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference

“Lead him to fiddlestick, Hedzoff,” said a female voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rose and the Ring] Reference

“Should be a fiddlestick, my dear,” the old Colonel answered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virginians] Reference

Then the broken fiddlestick, the frog piece dangling from horsehair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Mountain]

"Bless my fiddlestick!" exclaimed Mr. Damon, "Does your phonograph have a banjo record, Tom?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift in Captivity, or a Daring Escape By Airship] Reference

And this was the first time George Esmond Warrington, Esquire, was ever called a fiddlestick.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virginians] Reference

‘Imperial fiddlestick!’ said the King, rubbing his nose, which had been hurt by the fall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Looking Glass] Reference

'Used against a fiddlestick end!' said Mrs. Blake.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Homespun] Reference

Orgy of fiddlestick -- if I am not being irreverent!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911] Reference

"To preserve a fiddlestick!" said my adored Dorothy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes] Reference

"Cut short his fiddlestick-end!" snapped Miss Belcher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poison Island] Reference

"Breach of the king's fiddlestick!" answered the baron.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maid Marian] Reference

Your card-purse? you a card - purse! you a fiddlestick.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal to Stella] Reference

"Lead him to fiddlestick, Hedzoff," said a female voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh] Reference

'Lead him to fiddlestick, Hedzoff,' said a female voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rose and the Ring] Reference

"A humble obedient fiddlestick, sir!" retorted the new comer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amateur Gentleman] Reference

"Promised a fiddlestick!" exclaimed the Squire, in a passion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stolen Mask; or The Mysterious Cash-box. A Story for a Christmas Fireside] Reference

Wait for wisdom and conscience in public agents -- fiddlestick!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlemarch] Reference

"Era of sham polish and fiddlestick ends," echoed Henderson; and.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Winifred's, or The World of School] Reference

Heigh, heigh! the devil rides upon a fiddlestick: what's the matter?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Part of King Henry IV] Reference

Summerlee burst into derisive laughter "A pter-fiddlestick!" said he.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost World] Reference

"Untimely fiddlestick!" was Mr. Hastings 'still more irritable reply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three People] Reference

If you've all the tense strings you may take life for your fiddlestick.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tragic Muse] Reference

I might as well inquire whether the fiddle or fiddlestick makes the tune.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference

Dicky said, 'Subterranean fiddlestick!' and 'A waterworks, more likely. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wouldbegoods] Reference

"Well, even a voluntary fiddlestick -- if it be voluntary and well used.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bertrams] Reference

"It is all fiddlestick!" added the lawyer, with more significance than grace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference

"Inventionless fiddlestick!" snapped Hawkins as he slammed the door behind us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures] Reference

Simple suffumigation? simple nonsensification --- planetary hour? planetary fiddlestick!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquary] Reference

It was the fiddle after all was out of order, not the fiddlestick; the body, not the mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference

` Imperial fiddlestick! 'said the King, rubbing his nose, which had been hurt by the fall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Looking Glass] Reference

"You have declared your fiddlestick," exclaimed the baronet, with less than his usual dignity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Won from the Waves] Reference

"Right; it is all fiddlestick, as you tersely express it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference