walking-sticks

The length of the horn (greatly exaggerated) shows that the white species is meant; and it supplies only walking-sticks.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

They loitered about with these for some time, under their arms like walking-sticks, or in their hands like truncheons.

Pictures from Italy 2007

Lakwena expressed these war-rules through Alice twice a day…He made her repeat the 20 Holy Spirit Safety Precautions: no walking-sticks on the battlefield, no hiding behind anthills, no smoking, and each man to have ‘two testicles, neither more nor less’.

Holy Spirit Safety Precautions | Goblin Mercantile Exchange 2007

How could it be found, when, beyond his last monthly collection of walking-sticks, umbrellas, and pocket-handkerchiefs

Somebody's Luggage 2007

We went on again, as soon as we had seen these things, and going over a rather bleak country (there had been nothing but vines until now: mere walking-sticks at that season of the year), stopped, as usual, between one and two hours in the middle of the day, to rest the horses; that being a part of every Vetturino contract.

Pictures from Italy 2007

His companions were timber-dealers, yeomen, farmers, villagers, and others; mostly woodland men, who on that account could afford to be curious in their walking-sticks, which consequently exhibited various monstrosities of vegetation, the chief being cork-screw shapes in black and white thorn, brought to that pattern by the slow torture of an encircling woodbine during their growth, as the Chinese have been said to mould human beings into grotesque toys by continued compression in infancy.

The Woodlanders 2006

All the books visible here were folios too big to be stolen — some lying on a heavy oak table in one corner, some on the floor among the pictures, the whole intermingled with old coats, hats, umbrellas, and walking-sticks.

A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

The steps were let down, and Elfride was transferred — to the intense delight of the little girls, and to the mild interest of loungers with red skins and long necks, who cursorily eyed the performance with their walking-sticks to their lips, occasionally laughing from far down their throats and with their eyes, their mouths not being concerned in the operation at all.

A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

Their hold on the country is just the hold that a man with a Browning has over a crowd with walking-sticks.

Greenmantle 2005

There were the golf-clubs and tennis-rackets, the straw hats and caps, the rows of gloves, the sheaf of walking-sticks, which you will find in ten thousand British homes.

The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005