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  • Clearly separated from the tourist costume of T-shirts, baseball caps and running shoes, a local aristocratic lady also dressed in black, with a gold-handled onyx cane, good jewelry and noble upright posture, entered her apartment building.

    Perfection, Squared Willard Spiegelman 2011

  • Yes, along with an assortment of canes, that's all the store carries — hundreds of bumbershoots and parasols, ranging from $35 compacts to a $405 gold-handled Italian number festooned with showy red cabbage roses.

    Well, Isn't That Special? Anne Kadet 2010

  • Statuettes, sheets embroidered with the imperial monogram, gold-handled swords, even blankets and bars of soap were looted.

    The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

  • Statuettes, sheets embroidered with the imperial monogram, gold-handled swords, even blankets and bars of soap were looted.

    The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

  • Statuettes, sheets embroidered with the imperial monogram, gold-handled swords, even blankets and bars of soap were looted.

    The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

  • Statuettes, sheets embroidered with the imperial monogram, gold-handled swords, even blankets and bars of soap were looted.

    The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

  • I was thinking of that new television show, Bat Masterson, and the way Gene Barry wielded his gold-handled walking stick.

    Waiting for Snow in Havana Carlos Eire 2003

  • He was leaning on a heavy, gold-handled cane, standing on the front porch, eating an orange.

    A Burning in Homeland Richard Yancey 2003

  • The girl laughed again, loudly and with evident bravado, before she threw the cloak back and showed what she had evidently been holding in her hand from the first, a sharp-pointed, gold-handled paper-cutter.

    Initials Only 2003

  • He stood in the door of the dining room, crouched tensely, his pistol in one hand and, in the other, the small rosewood sewing box fitted with gold thimble, gold-handled scissors and tiny gold-topped acorn of emery.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

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