Straw in example sentence

"If the defendant be a man of straw, who is to pay the costs, Sir?"'"Name any sum," said the stranger, his hand trembling so violently with excitement, that he could scarcely hold the pen he seized as he spoke--"any sum, and it is yours.

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This is a straw.

This is a kind of a blowing straw.

This is a little straw, and what you do is you just nip two corners here, and this becomes like a baby crocodile's mouth.

This is how he became known to the public, and this is what probably became the straw that broke the camel's back.

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