His fingers were bloated sausages in comparison with the brittle sticks of Gunther's fingers.

The brittle sticks splintered like a row of matches.

The in-human's bones snapped like brittle sticks.

Nor is it packaged with a brittle stick of stale bubble gum.

Then she took the disk in both hands and snapped it in two as easily as she might a brittle stick.

A second ticked by, then another, until Damien's control snapped like a brittle stick under a horse's hoof.

Zdorab saw, to his horror, that in Elemak's grip the poor thing was like a brittle stick.

In a quarter of an hour a few charred and brittle sticks were all that was left of Lot No. 249.

What nerves she had: rattling like brittle sticks!

A very strong but brittle stick.