swordstick
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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When, enveloped in a vast cloak and toying with a swordstick, he sat his 300 pounds down to dream on a wayside bench, passers-by "either take me for the village idiot or for one of Harrod's delivery vans."
From Time Magazine Archive
At novel's start, Mac still has his gang, though none but his intimate henchmen know it, and while he carries a swordstick cane, he is prudent enough never to use it.
From Time Magazine Archive
He himself possessed a very murderous-looking swordstick which he had once bought in Paris.
From Project Gutenberg
Talking of tools, you've got that swordstick, Flambeau, you always carry?
From Project Gutenberg
At about half-past one on a February night he found himself steaming in a small tug up the silent Thames, armed with swordstick and revolver, the duly elected Thursday of the Central Council of Anarchists.
From Project Gutenberg
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