curtain-rod

Invented just 30 years ago by an obscure Austrian curtain-rod manufacturer with little firearm experience, the Glock semiautomatic pistol has become in every sense America's gun.

Glock Book Chronicles A History Of America's Gun (PHOTOS) 2012

I tie the ends to my curtain-rod, and I spill the ladder out into the night sky - perfect white pearls like stars, knotted rungs.

Valentines, part the first mllelaurel 2009

He turned on the shower as high as it would go, and steam poured over the top of the curtain-rod, giving him a little relief.

Chrome Circle Lackey, Mercedes 1994

He turned on the shower as high as it would go, and steam poured over the top of the curtain-rod, giving him a little relief.

The Chrome Borne Lackey, Mercedes 1993

He turned on the shower as high as it would go, and steam poured over the top of the curtain-rod, giving him a little relief.

Omnibus Lackey, Mercedes 1993

Lying full length on the floor, under the window, I tied her handkerchief to the end of the curtain-rod, thrust it through the straw, and waved it about as vigorously as I could.

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

Then he took his gun, the barrel of which, broken before it was given to him, had been replaced by a thin bamboo curtain-rod, and his finger on the trigger (a wooden match) he waited for an invader.

The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927

He screamed -- and brought down the curtain-rod with a smash, right on the best beloved pelargonium, just as my mother rushed in.

Adolf 1920

A curtain-rod is a necessity to the incoming tenant; a door-plate is merely a luxury for the grubby-fingered to help them to keep the paint clean.

If I May 1919

But from the consumer's point of view, a curtain-rod is a pleasant thing.

If I May 1919