maul-stick

Suddenly MacGuilp burst out of the door of his house, maul-stick in hand, rushing on the pifferari to put them to flight.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

"You don't know how old he was!" she said, mockingly, her azure, sunny eyes lighting up with laughter, too, as she leant on the bending maul-stick and looked up at me.

To-morrow? Victoria Cross 1910

"Oh!" groaned Will, ready to give up, wondering the while whether the artist would thrash him with his elastic maul-stick.

Will of the Mill George Manville Fenn 1870

Rushing to the picture, he thrust his maul-stick through it, then kicked easel and painting to the floor.

Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

"No, no; it will do for the naval battle," chuckled the king, and while he pushed the artist back, the latter, carried away by the monarch's unusual freedom, struck him lightly on the shoulder with the maul-stick.

Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

They wrestled together to-day, and the master, in all friendship, struck His Majesty a blow with the maul-stick ....

Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

Gay as a boy, half frantic with joy, happiness and expectation, he crushed the sketches, which seemed to him too miserable, into the waste-paper basket with a maul-stick.

Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

The soldier's head swam, the happiest period of his childhood, which he had not recalled for a long time, again rose before his memory; he saw his father stand before him, and the woman, the sibyl yonder, had the eyes and mouth, not of his mother, but of the Madonna he had destroyed with his maul-stick.

Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

We remember hearing a brother artist describe him in his studio at Home, engaged for hours upon a picture, deftly shifting palette, cigar, and maul-stick from hand to hand, as occasion required; absorbed, rapid, intent, and then suddenly breaking from his quiet task to vent his constrained spirits in

Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made James Dabney McCabe 1862

She clung to the precious relics, till death relaxed her grasp, when the auctioneer's hammer made short work of the painter's remains, even to his maul-stick.

Art in England Notes and Studies Dutton Cook 1856