"Mahl-stick" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mahl-stick, and came to meet her, with a puzzled look on his face. Her beauty seemed familiar to him somehow, and yet he had no recollection of ever having seen her before. He saw the faded counterpart of that bright face every morning in ...
— The Lovels of Arden • M. E. Braddon
... his mahl-stick and palette—looking very like a gigantic warrior guarding the shrine of Art with shield ...
— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)
... explained the host patiently. "Just vicissitudes. The father and the two elder brothers died off and left the third son to assume the government of a grand duchy, which he did not want, and compelled him to relinquish the mahl-stick and brushes which he loved. My aunt was his grand-duchess-consort, and until her death occupied with him the ducal throne. If you'd look these things up for yourself, my son, in some European 'Who's Who,' you'd remember 'em—and ...
— The Lighted Match • Charles Neville Buck |
