ashplant
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He took the hilt of his ashplant, lunging with it softly, dallying still.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
He gave me the time-a-day And doitered over the hill, Walloping his gay ashplant And shouting his fill.
From The Mountainy Singer by MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh
By the bye have you the book, the thing, the ashplant?
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
He knew that she would most likely have a book under her arm, and an ashplant in her hand.
From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
He snatched the ashplant roughly from Stephen's hand and sprang down the steps: but Temple, hearing him move in pursuit, fled through the dusk like a wild creature, nimble and fleet-footed.
From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, James
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