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Practically in the instant he saw all this, and while his scream still rang, the thing leaped, he flung his night-stick full at it, and threw himself to the ground.
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From his pocket he drew an electric night-stick, but he did not use it.
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But this time Dave had no night-stick to throw, and he was caught by the biceps of both arms in a grip so terrific that it made him groan with pain.
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Carrying the night-stick in his hand, his finger on the button, he advanced through the darkness.
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Holding the night-stick before him, he pressed the button, saw, and screamed aloud in terror.
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"When the World Was Young" opens with Dave Slotter, a would-be burglar in Mill Valley, California, entering a walled property at night with an "electric night-stick" and stumbling upon a huge, naked, muscular, blonde, bearded man wearing a goat-skin around his middle.
“Samuel! There was a rolling wonder in the sound. Ay, there was!” 2008
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OBVIOUSLY the guy shouldn't have had a night-stick, but he was by no means brandishing it.
Obama Volunteer On Scene Disputes Fox News' Suggestions That Black Panthers Are Intimidating Voters 2009
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Respect and courtesy are for those who earn it, not for any two-bit punk who figured out how to put on a uniform and swing a night-stick.
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Respect and courtesy are for those who earn it, not for any two-bit punk who figured out how to put on a uniform and swing a night-stick.
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And then there was a police car coming around the corner, its lights swirling, coming for her, for she was worth saving after all, and the car halted abruptly at the curb and a cop got out, a brawny black cop wearing a uniform and a night-stick and a gun, and the Bogeyman stopped and then he simply dropped her; he let her go.
My Dreams Out in the Street Kim Addonizio 2007
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