cricket-bat

He does not busy himself with the sports of his comrades, and holds a cricket-bat no better than Miss Raby would.

Dr. Birch and his young friends 2006

[As he has been speaking, the bell has rung, the Page has run to the garden-door, and MILLIKEN enters through the garden, laden with a hamper, band-box, and cricket-bat.]

The Wolves and the Lamb 2006

Old Cheeseman one night walked in his sleep, put his hat on over his night-cap, got hold of a fishing-rod and a cricket-bat, and went down into the parlour, where they naturally thought from his appearance he was a Ghost.

The Schoolboy's Story, by Charles Dickens 2004

There was a sound like a cricket-bat hitting a ripe melon.

The Warslayer Edghill, Rosemary 2002

A cricket-bat and small fishing-rod stood up in one corner.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

And then, so quickly that no one (unless they knew, as Peter did) could quite see how it happened, Edmund flashed his sword round with a peculiar twist, the Dwarf's sword flew out of his grip, and Trumpkin was wringing his empty hand as you do after a "sting" from a cricket-bat.

Prince Caspian Lewis, C. S. 1951

He was like a big, overgrown school-boy returning to school and greatly concerned as to whether his cricket-bat and tuck-box were safely included amongst his baggage.

The Moon out of Reach Margaret Pedler

Delicately bred youths who had never known rougher work than the _deux temps_, now trudged through blinding snows on post, or slept in blankets stiff with freezing mud; hands that had felt nothing harder than billiard-cue or cricket-bat now wielded ax and shovel as men never wielded them for wages; the epicure of the club mixed a steaming stew of rank bacon and moldy hard-tack and then -- ate it!

Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

He had leaped into a railway carriage with cricket-bat, fishing-rod, and

The Heiress of Wyvern Court Emilie Searchfield

The handling of cricket-bat and sculls hardens the palm of the hand whilst it leaves the tips of the fingers unprotected.

The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography David Christie Murray