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peppermint stick

n. (alternative namecandy cane)

Usage examples of "peppermint stick".

She'd decided on three yards of scarlet ribbon and a deck of playing cards, explaining that her mother had been a Gypsy and taught her to read the future with themthis, by the way, was why the evil conspirators had not wanted her to inherit the throne and stole the crown for the prime minister's baseborn son Otto, who was the offspring of a chambermaidwhen Chief Running Deer and King Elisheazar got into a fight over whether or not she should buy herself a peppermint stick.

The angle of rise was now between eighty and ninety degrees, and the staircase began to wind along the outside of it like the red stripe on a peppermint stick.

He watched the larger giant pour a seemingly endless stream of liquid into his mouth, while the smaller sucked the marrow from the bone he chewed like it was some kind of yellow-gray peppermint stick.

He went in the shack and picked out a peppermint stick, a foot long and two inches thick, from the candy shelf, and stuck it in his hip pocket.

He's a regular peppermint stick now, all sugar-crystal and saccharine when he isn't making veiled references to certain commercial products that every worshipper absolutely needs.

Clarisse would have ignored him if it were not for the fact that as she passed, he took something long, white and oddly familiar from his coat and proceeded to chew on it, as on a peppermint stick.

It was impossible to determine whether they had been purposely sealed, or whether some long-forgotten student of pre-Oztoric days had sucked a peppermint stick while perusing the volume.

Whistling, Remo strolled over to the chain and snapped it as though it were a peppermint stick.