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  • He took an iron kitchen-poker, about a yard long, and three inches in circumference, and holding it in his right hand, he struck upon his bare left arm, between the elbow and the wrist till he bent the poker nearly to a right angle.

    Miracle Mongers and Their Methods 1920

  • He took an iron kitchen-poker, about a yard long, and three inches in circumference, and holding it in his right hand, he struck upon his bare left arm, between the elbow and the wrist till he bent the poker nearly to a right angle.

    The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé Harry Houdini 1900

  • You would go straight down-stairs, get the coal-hammer and the kitchen-poker, and divide it into sufficient pieces to give a bit to every man in London.

    Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow 1893

  • I had had anything in the way of a kitchen-poker or a carving-knife about me, I should have flung that missile at the patriarchal head of my saintly Jonah.

    Birds of Prey 1875

  • With the aid of a hammer and the kitchen-poker, however, he at last succeeded in forcing it open.

    A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

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