The tradition of the mace may date to the Roman Republic when attendants of Roman consuls carried bundles of sticks wrapped around an axe to enforce order.

Body armor would be made of hard elk or bear hide with a waistcoat of thin sticks wrapped together.

At that time, the products were sticks wrapped in paper that had to be applied with a finger.

It was supplied ready for use in the form of sticks, individually wrapped in greased water-proof paper.

Her name was Guilfoyle Pleshette and she didn't make much of a crowd; she was little more than a bundle of sticks wrapped in a gaudy kimono, voice by cartoonland, hair by Van de Graaff.

It was re-released in its current shape (a stick of several individually wrapped candies) in February 1986.

Jake pulled open the door of the shed and took out the box of dynamite, stubby sticks wrapped in heavy, waxy paper which bore red warning labels.

He reached into his sporran and pulled out several copper doits, two or three small rocks, a short stick wrapped with fishline, a crumpled letter, and a tangle of hair ribbons.

His arms were sticks wrapped in old leather, dangling from two bumps.

A man holding a stick wrapped in rags stepped forward, and held the stick in the bonfire until the rags blazed up, bright red.