Knives from the wall rack fell in twinkling jackstraws.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gunslinger]

The teeth grew in all directions, like a jumble of jackstraws.    From Wordnik.com.  [Icerigger]

We played hopscotch, jackstraws, and things like that back then.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Evelyn Gosnell Harvell, May 27, 1980. Interview H-0250. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

He pointed to the timbers, some of which had been scattered like jackstraws.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bridge of the Separator]

"The Threads do not fall like a child's jackstraws, Lord Meron," F'lar replied.    From Wordnik.com.  [DragonFlight]

Boundary Survey, Vol. I, p. 111, says: "The Yumas played a game with sticks like jackstraws.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Indian Games : an historical research] Reference

On top of the soil, decomposing grass blades lie like jackstraws in an equally complex fabric.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

He (Garcia?) compared the gridlock of cars abandoned on the road to a "bunch of jackstraws" on the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Annotated "Jack Straw"] Reference

Scrambling to his feet, he began to pick his way among trees tossed like jackstraws, calling her name without reply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Unconquered]

This game is the same in principle as jackstraws except that fagots or sticks of wood two feet long are used in place of jackstraws.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference

That is the lesson of the first game of jackstraws.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Straight Deal or The Ancient Grudge] Reference

They had a jolly time and followed the jackstraws with a game of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie's Vacation] Reference

Then there were passed around bunches of jackstraws for each table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie at Seacote] Reference

Another large game of jackstraws was being played in Europe in 1823.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Straight Deal or The Ancient Grudge] Reference

It's always fun to play jackstraws, and the children went at it with a zest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie at Seacote] Reference

Let me briefly speak of the first game of jackstraws, played at Paris in 1783.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Straight Deal or The Ancient Grudge] Reference

Twenty years later, in 1803, occurred the heap of jackstraws that led to the Louisiana.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Straight Deal or The Ancient Grudge] Reference

We're going to make the police department look like a kindergarten playing jackstraws.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Window at the White Cat] Reference

"Get along to headwaters and start to rolling the jackstraws onto the ice," shouted Latisan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joan of Arc of the North Woods] Reference

Before him, from the figures covering the earth like thrown jackstraws, an arm was suddenly lifted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Roll] Reference

Twenty years later, in 1823, occurred the heap of jackstraws from which emerged the Monroe Doctrine.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Straight Deal or The Ancient Grudge] Reference

I have seen the logs jammed out there in the river until they looked like a giant's game of jackstraws.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kit of Greenacre Farm] Reference

Kennedy picked them out with as much sang-froid as if he were not playing jackstraws with life and death.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dream Doctor] Reference

European diplomacy at any moment of any year reminds you, if you inspect it closely, of a game of jackstraws.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Straight Deal or The Ancient Grudge] Reference

The game of jackstraws illustrates this, when the disturbance of one piece involves the displacement of two others.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma] Reference

There is something very pleasant in the thought of these two sages playing at jackstraws with the letters of the alphabet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over the Teacups] Reference

Then at last the little group arrived at the "breast" itself -- a sullen and fearful tangle like a gigantic pile of jackstraws.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rules of the Game] Reference

A glove-buttoner, a penknife, and a set of ivory jackstraws.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life] Reference

But I must keep to my jackstraws.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Straight Deal or The Ancient Grudge] Reference

And fall like jackstraws; green and blue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Adventure, a Book of Poems] Reference

Faro is to other games as war is to jackstraws.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spoilers] Reference

This was the result of that game of jackstraws.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Straight Deal or The Ancient Grudge] Reference

OCDEM, Morrell hall, jackstraws, Headley.    From Wordnik.com.  [WalkJogRun New Running Routes] Reference