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  • He leaned heavily upon a silver-topped cane as he approached.

    The Black Madonna Davis Bunn 2010

  • "So-ho!" laughed King, patting his hip pocket, from which the cap of a silver-topped flask had been protruding ever since he put the pistol out of sight.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • The ark contained several (perhaps four) giant, silver-topped cylinders made of exotic woods.

    On Pesach Eve: The Muslim and Her Inner Jew 2010

  • The disagreement between Monro and Battie was not just a medical dispute: it was a clash of personalities, between John Monro, the suave doctor about town, with his carriage and his silver-topped cane, and the earnest, academic Battie.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • The disagreement between Monro and Battie was not just a medical dispute: it was a clash of personalities, between John Monro, the suave doctor about town, with his carriage and his silver-topped cane, and the earnest, academic Battie.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • The disagreement between Monro and Battie was not just a medical dispute: it was a clash of personalities, between John Monro, the suave doctor about town, with his carriage and his silver-topped cane, and the earnest, academic Battie.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Mottled hands rested, one on top of the other, on the head of a silver-topped cane with an inscription band around the neck.

    'Sepulchre' 2008

  • Mottled hands rested, one on top of the other, on the head of a silver-topped cane with an inscription band around the neck.

    Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007

  • She carried off his silver-topped scent-bottle out of his dressing-case, and a half-dozen of his favorite pills (which Fitz possesses in common with every well-regulated man), and probably administered them to her own family.

    A Little Dinner at Timmins’s 2006

  • He wore a top hat and a heavy fur coat, and held his silver-topped stick in his right hand.

    The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006

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