"Jackstraw will only want me if I stay young."

He keeps this new development to himself and Jackstraw.

"Jackstraw will be in the next room," he says.

Jackstraw is sitting next to him on the sofa and drinking one of his beers.

Langley wasn't quite sure what a jackstraw was, and in any case chose not to answer.

The landlord strode on jackstraw legs across the room.

Seven or eight really big trees, fallen into a kind of jackstraw mess, their branches all tangled together.

Only a jackstraw heap of corpses and stirring near-dead marked where they had been.

Jackstraw holds him up, panting, his neck muscles straining.

Branches, some half-stripped of their leaves, lay everywhere in jackstraw profusion.

Behind him, carrying a six-pack of beer, comes his manager, Jackstraw, a small young man with unquiet eyes.

The eighty thousand increment each day was a jackstraw to be placed carefully on a precarious structure.

She looks up at Jackstraw.

When Jackstraw judges Daud can earn money for him, he will visit.

"Jackstraw said he would try to get me some hormone maskers," Daud says.

Balanced precariously on the jackstraw pile, it rolled and fell, bouncing down the side of the heap.

"You look like you're limping," Jackstraw says.

Early last month Violets became Jackstraw.

I found each panel had been spot welded to some of the more massive pieces of debris that made up the jackstraw jumble.

"I'm going with Jackstraw.

Jackstraw (2003)

Sammy Sal lost her, where Bryant stuttered out in that jackstraw tumble of concrete tank-traps.

Solid streams of rain were coming down cut of various points in all that jackstraw stuff upstairs, sphshing on the deck.

"Where's Jackstraw?"