There is, after all, not much that you can do to a glass rod.
It was a small glass rod, hollow and filled with flowing light.
All in the name of science, they touched the glass rod and whammo!
I felt like a glass rod being rubbed on silk.
Why, it looks like a glass rod, that's all I can see.
They can be poured over the back of a spoon or down a glass rod.
Suppose you are aiming a torch at the end of a glass rod.
Support the slab in a dish with glass rods at the edges.
In this technique, one should pull the trigger to have the shot break as if it were a glass rod.
You can accomplish the same trick using a glass rod.