What is "stickman"

Usage examples of "stickman".

It would be easy enough for the stickman to hide, should he choose to.

The stickman stopped in front of her, pointed back toward the village, and clicked and whistled.

In sudden anger she knocked the hand from her shoulder, and when the insect man made louder sounds and lifted one hand, three-fingered fist clenched, she went into a crouch and watched the blow coming, went under it, seized the arm, and sent the stickman tumbling over her shoulder.

When a fourth stickman went down, the others, with wild, grating screams, turned and fled.

Max thought she looked more beautiful than ever with her musing, thoughtful face bent toward a stickman lying, carefully trussed, on an examination table.

Before Hook finished his story, the eyes of the stickman began to glow, and suddenly the table shook as he tried to escape the bands of strong tape that had been wrapped all around him, pinioning his arms to his sides, immobilizing his legs.

The stickman sat up, stood, seemed to shiver, and then the yellow glow centered in his large, ovate eyes, and he kept that glow directed toward them as he pulled out the one chair with a three-fingered hand and sat down.

The stickman sniffed, tasted carefully, and then turned the bottle up and drank deeply.

She looked at the stickman, who had his hard-skinned, skull-like face pressed to the grill, yellow eyes glowing.

Miller collapsed during the dissection of a dead stickman and had to be put to bed, where she slept soundly for hours and awoke screaming.

The stickman saw the fruit, pointed, and made a whistling, clicking sound.

Then he attacked the welding torch, the plaster sketches on the workbench, the Rodin cast and the Giacometti stickman Peterson had bought in Paris.

He sat in the middle of his earthtone houndstooth sofa and looked like a stickman with his ankles crossed, his clasped hands between his knees, and a big smile on his crinkly face.

From the way the stickman looked up, it was obvious his comment had carried across the table, where the blonde was leaning against a man who watched through slitted eyes that moved slowly from Eugene to Tony and back again.

The stickman raised his eyebrows and looked inquisitively at Tony, who shook his head.