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  • But Collins, knowing ahead of the lion what the lion was going to do, struck first, with the broom-handle rapping the beast on its tender nose.

    CHAPTER XXVII 2010

  • He knew the game, and could conquer the most refractory lion with a broom-handle -- not outside the cage, but inside and locked in.

    CHAPTER XXIV 2010

  • He prodded Hannibal with the end of the broom-handle, after each prod poising it for a stroke.

    CHAPTER XXVII 2010

  • And Harris Collins, a sliver of a less than a light-weight man, who lived in mortal fear that at table the mother of his children would crown him with a plate of hot soup, went into the cage, before the critical audience of his employees and professional visitors, armed only with a broom-handle.

    CHAPTER XXVII 2010

  • The only way we could move the damn thing was to drag it about using a broom-handle ... and that would just be a few feet before the handle was bitten through.

    The Tobolowsky Files Ep. 22 - The Dangerous Animals Club | /Film 2010

  • Don McLeroy is a balding, paunchy man with a thick broom-handle mustache who lives in a rambling two-story brick home in a suburb near Bryan, Texas.

    Roger L. Simon » Shootin’ with the Governor (Perry) 2010

  • They programmed the necessary equations of motions into GEDA, gave it a simple broom-handle control stick, and set it up to “fly” what amounted to the first “virtual” airplane with a variation on “degrees of freedom” roll; move forward and backward; and go up, down, and sideways.

    First Man James R. Hansen 2005

  • They programmed the necessary equations of motions into GEDA, gave it a simple broom-handle control stick, and set it up to “fly” what amounted to the first “virtual” airplane with a variation on “degrees of freedom” roll; move forward and backward; and go up, down, and sideways.

    First Man James R. Hansen 2005

  • They programmed the necessary equations of motions into GEDA, gave it a simple broom-handle control stick, and set it up to “fly” what amounted to the first “virtual” airplane with a variation on “degrees of freedom” roll; move forward and backward; and go up, down, and sideways.

    First Man James R. Hansen 2005

  • They programmed the necessary equations of motions into GEDA, gave it a simple broom-handle control stick, and set it up to “fly” what amounted to the first “virtual” airplane with a variation on “degrees of freedom” roll; move forward and backward; and go up, down, and sideways.

    First Man James R. Hansen 2005

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