NOUN1 | a walking-stick | walking-sticks | |
NOUN2 | a walking stick | walking sticks | |
SYNO | stick insect | walking stick | walkingstick |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- (Michael Foot was the ageing leader of the Labour Party at the time, who used a walking stick.) Everett later said he regretted the appearance and said that he had taken the foam hands to the rally because the Tories "asked me first".
- In the Eastern Orthodox Church and some of the Oriental Orthodox Churches an ecclesiastical walking stick is used by bishops, archimandrites and hegumens (abbots) when walking outside.
- After this transformation it was used for a film, "The Walking Stick" (1970).
- He uses his ashplant walking stick to smash a chandelier and dispel the hallucination, crying out "Nothung!
- Crafts demonstrated on site include woodturning, broom-making, walking stick-making and the work of the blacksmith and potters. Special events are held regularly.
- 'Cottan-bimbang' is the local Aboriginal word for the walking stick palm ("Linospadix monostachya"), which grows in the park's temperate rainforests.
- She comes out of her house an old woman with a white bead walking stick.
- Du Bois was something of a dandy – he dressed formally, carried a walking stick, and walked with an air of confidence and dignity.
- This was a joke Spielberg made on set about the genuine, thousands of years old mosquito in amber used for Hammond's walking stick.
- In 1921 James Biggs, a photographer from Bristol who became blind after an accident and was uncomfortable with the amount of traffic around his home, painted his walking stick white to be more easily visible.
- Notable composers for the instrument include Heberle and Krähmer, and Tarasov notes that piano works by Beethoven were arranged for csakan and guitar (Beethoven is reported to have owned a walking-stick csakan).
- Fisk sometimes carries an "obliterator cane", a walking stick that conceals a laser weapon that can vaporize a handgun or a person's head at close range.
- The Corkscrew hazel ornamental cultivar of common hazel ("Corylus avellana" 'Contorta') is sometimes known as Harry Lauder's Walking Stick, in reference to the crooked walking stick Lauder often carried.
- His acts included giving lectures in an invented language called Slobodian, "Imaginative Young Man with a Walking Stick" and "The Chairback", with a broken chairback having a number of uses from comb to machine gun and taking on a demoniacal life of its own.
- In the early 1900s this kuntao eventually reached a man in Rawa Belong named Kong Maing who further developed it after a monkey stole his walking stick and evaded all his attempts at retrieval.
- He was said to have ordered the prison guards to club the children to death; Bokassa allegedly participated, smashing the skulls of at least five children with his ebony walking stick.
- Pliny the Elder reported in his "Natural History" that the slime of the jellyfish " [...] " produced light when rubbed on a walking stick.
- Blake can transform by tapping his walking stick on the ground; the cane becomes the magical hammer Mjolnir and Blake transforms into Thor.
- Because of its elasticity European ash wood was commonly used for walking sticks.
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