small cane
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Before he was many days old he was not only looking like a mouse but acting like one, too—wearing a gray hat and carrying a small cane.
From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White
The man was about fifty-two, had a small cane under his arm, was dressed in a dark drab-colored coat, waistcoat, and breeches, which seemed to have seen some years' service.
From The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English by Hawthorne, Julian
See him again on Sunday in his state-coat and cocked-hat, with a large-headed staff for show in his left hand, and a small cane for use in his right.
From Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people by Dickens, Charles
His bright red hair and small waxed mustache, and his habit of dangling a small cane, perhaps, were the only distinguishing marks about him.
From Clark's Field by Herrick, Robert
A handle is made out of a couple of inches of small cane bent into a semicircle, let through the lid at each end, glued, and cut off flush.
From Things To Make by Williams, Archibald
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