Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. From LearnThat.org. [Spiro T. Agnew (1918-1996)]
The lead filled truncheon is useful but most of us do not have that. From Wordnik.com. [Be afraid, be very afraid……. actually, don’t be. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
He bore in his hand what was called a truncheon, which was a sort of sceptre, very splendidly covered and adorned. From Wordnik.com. [Richard I Makers of History] Reference
To seize his truncheon was the act of a moment. From Wordnik.com. [The Settler and the Savage] Reference
They aren't like a good old bobby with a truncheon!. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Rode the city field-marshal, with truncheon in hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 400, November 21, 1829] Reference
He ran a finger the size of a truncheon down his lapel. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and the angel of the lord]
And dark Mayenne was in the midst, a truncheon in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
And dark Mayenne was in the midst, a truncheon in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [English Songs and Ballads] Reference
"Ha! would ye?" he said, and laid a hand upon his truncheon. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
The strap of my truncheon has (tug) got fouled (tug) with my. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 28, 1914] Reference
It was, for women, the devil's truncheon, his rod of empire. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
Gawaine to draw out the truncheon of the spear out of his body. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
I put my arm down slowly and dropped the truncheon on the carpet. From Wordnik.com. [Forfeit]
In his right hand the man held a small pear-shaped black truncheon. From Wordnik.com. [Whip Hand]
Next the Knighte Marshall alone in armour and bases with a truncheon. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
Out of the corner of his eye Svenson saw Aspiche, a truncheon in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters]
The man holding him lifted the hand holding the truncheon, and spoke to me. From Wordnik.com. [Whip Hand]
Someone walked past the end of his bed and whacked his feet with a truncheon. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
They had separated out the verbal member and were beating it with truncheon whips. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
I left Gail and Ross's truncheon out altogether but put in the threat to Elizabeth. From Wordnik.com. [Forfeit]
"Show me the German part," I said, gripping the corrugations of my truncheon more tightly. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 28, 1914] Reference
And therewith he drew out the truncheon of the spear out of his body: and then he swooned. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
I swung round with the truncheon in my hand and met Vjoersterod's fiercely implacable gaze. From Wordnik.com. [Forfeit]
I have the farewell of a general, with a truncheon in his hand, dying for love, in six lines. From Wordnik.com. [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference
Vjoersterod nodded to Ross, who hit me solidly with the truncheon on the back of the shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [Forfeit]
He promptly fell upon his truncheon, and the story was that as a result of his carelessness the. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Did Kipling actually write a poem with the refrain 'An' it's trunch trunch truncheon does the trick '?. From Wordnik.com. ['The Oxford Book of Parodies'] Reference
For when the Queen saw that he only took the broken truncheon of his lance to her, she fairly asked him why. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864] Reference
There was a Class Five guard armed with a heavy truncheon, standing by the door that led into the workers entrance. From Wordnik.com. [But, I Don't Think] Reference
The Prince accordingly made a sign with his truncheon as the Knight passed him in his second career around the lists. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
In one hand he held the formidable "Morning Star," or truncheon, and in the other hand an implement of chastisement, of which. From Wordnik.com. [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference
Sir Melias, and there he alit and dressed him softly on his horse tofore him, for the truncheon of his spear was in his body; and Sir. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
This Sir Lavaine dreaded sore to do, lest Sir Launcelot should be in peril of death from loss of blood, if the truncheon were drawn out. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference
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