Now I'll show them, she thought, lifting her stick for a flawless offside drive.

For a moment he lifted his stick as if to beat down the door.

"I was only trying to lift his stick," Thelven said.

As she fell, she lifted her stick and stabbed upward.

I was going to wish her many happy returns, when she lifted her stick.

Abruptly, David lifted his walking stick and rapped three times on the ceiling.

David lifted his stick and pointed far up the slope of the hill.

"I tried to lift his stick and I missed it."

He lifted his stick and pointed it into thin air.

He appeared humbled by the response as he lifted his stick to the crowd.