billiard-cue

Malania Pavlovna adored her husband, and had been all her life an exemplarily faithful wife; but there had been a romance even in her life — a young cousin, an hussar, killed, as she supposed, in a duel on her account; but, according to more trustworthy reports, killed by a blow on the head from a billiard-cue in a tavern brawl.

A Desperate Character 2006

I can truthfully testify that never until the last year of his life did he willingly lay down the billiard-cue, or show the least suggestion of fatigue.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

An ordinary billiard-cue and nine balls, one black, four red and four white, are used.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

Delicately bred youths who had never known rougher work than the _deux temps_, now trudged through blinding snows on post, or slept in blankets stiff with freezing mud; hands that had felt nothing harder than billiard-cue or cricket-bat now wielded ax and shovel as men never wielded them for wages; the epicure of the club mixed a steaming stew of rank bacon and moldy hard-tack and then -- ate it!

Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

A cigar was in his mouth, and a billiard-cue was in his hand; and he profusely adorned his conversation with the most extravagant oaths.

My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself. George Thompson

Whose billiard-cue business strikes with sheer dizziness

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 28, 1891 Various

_ It won't be no use -- there ain't room in there as it is for a billiard-cue -- leastwise (_conscientiously_), a stoutish one -- but I'll get it taken in for you, if you _like_.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 16, 1892 Various

Puffing with anger and red as a rooster, the marshal appears at the window, his billiard-cue in his hand: 16

The Game of Billiards 1917

The state of mind in which you take a billiard-cue or a dice-box in your hand is one of sober certainty compared with that of old-fashioned fathers, like Mr. Tulliver, when they selected a school or a tutor for their sons.

IV. “The Young Idea”. Book II—School-Time 1917

We can jab it off its hook with a billiard-cue, I should think, Moke.

The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton Ian Hay 1914