mallet

• You discover that your mallet is actually a flamingo that moves its head whenever you try to strike the ball. —  Informal Learning Blog
• Sounded with a mallet, the tanks gave forth only a hollow, empty sound. —  Down the Rhine Young America in Germany
• Bill had the serving-mallet, and as he worked it round the rope the Dago passed the ball of spun-yarn in time with him. —  Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories
• In the midst of a wood, a little to the north of the village, the sound of a mallet might be heard by any traveller in the lane which led to the ponds, outside the estate of the Count de D The workman who was so busy with his mallet was not a charcoal-burner; and the work he was doing was on his own account. —  The Peasant and the Prince
• The torn card may probably be dropped by the well-dressed gamester, who has exchanged the dice-box for the mallet, and whose laced hat is hung up as a companion trophy to the hoop-petticoat One of the girls appears scarcely in her teens. —  The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency

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