jackstraws

"Cease to pester my brother, and let him return to his jackstraws."

The stove lengths rolled wildly on the floor like jackstraws.

The Shadow was playing a grim game of jackstraws.

Compared to their engineers, ours play with jackstraws in a sandbox.

They collapsed on top of one another like a pile of jackstraws.

"The Threads do not fall like a child's jackstraws.

They rolled across the bloody blue tiles like jackstraws.

The sticks are thrown on a table, and the rules of play are likely similar to jackstraws.

His cover story went flying through his mind like jackstraws blown in the wind.

It only stood within its surreal jackstraws of moonlight and shadow, grinning at her.

The structure of my universe was being picked apart like a game of jackstraws.

Several splinters of wood were scattered there, like jackstraws for elves.

Rose Madder was very close now, a slim straight figure walking through jackstraws of light and shadow.

Knives from the wall rack fell in twinkling jackstraws.

If it ran into a train, it would scatter railroad cars like jackstraws.

More and more of the pieces were locked together like jackstraws and could only be moved in order.

It plowed into him; boy, skis, and toboggan went down, tangled like jackstraws.

How can you get people to follow you if you treat them like jackstraws?"

It's possibly related to the pick-up sticks game played today, most notably the Jackstraws variation.

Lacking this information, one can say only that the hurricane, a natural force, ripped up ancient natural growth like jackstraws.

But quiet as it was, the weapons strewn like jackstraws and the bodies on the ground showed it had been no dream.

The silver-blue pines are gone now, fallen like jackstraws to Hurricane Andrew.

Pews were overturned and heaped like jackstraws.

Europe was a heap of swords piled as delicately as jackstraws; one could not be pulled out without moving the others.

It "is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together like jackstraws."