large cane
Americannoun
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It began with Jean Baptiste Lully, who, as an early ensemble conductor, clobbered his toe with the large cane he used to gesture toward his 24 violins.
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“Take that chair, Mr Glanton,” Miss Sewin went on, pointing to a large cane chair on the verandah.
From A Frontier Mystery by Mitford, Bertram
He wore a long ulster coat and a broad-brimmed hat, and carried a large cane.
From Twenty Years of Hus'ling by Denslow, W. W. (William Wallace)
Accordingly Agib, arrayed in magnificent apparel, went along with the eunuch, who held a large cane in his hand.
From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous
This specimen is 7 feet in length, and is made of a large cane, probably the Arundinaria macrosperma.
From Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made During the Field Season of 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 427-510 by Holmes, William Henry
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