Malania Pavlovna adored her husband, and had been all her life an exemplarily faithful wife; but there had been a romance even in her life — a young cousin, an hussar, killed, as she supposed, in a duel on her account; but, according to more trustworthy reports, killed by a blow on the head from a billiard-cue in a tavern brawl. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I can truthfully testify that never until the last year of his life did he willingly lay down the billiard-cue, or show the least suggestion of fatigue. ❋ Unknown (2003)
An ordinary billiard-cue and nine balls, one black, four red and four white, are used. ❋ Various (N/A)
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! ❋ T. C. DeLeon (N/A)
A cigar was in his mouth, and a billiard-cue was in his hand; and he profusely adorned his conversation with the most extravagant oaths. ❋ George Thompson (N/A)
Whose billiard-cue business strikes with sheer dizziness ❋ Various (N/A)
_ It won't be no use -- there ain't room in there as it is for a billiard-cue -- leastwise (_conscientiously_), a stoutish one -- but I'll get it taken in for you, if you _like_. ❋ Various (N/A)
Puffing with anger and red as a rooster, the marshal appears at the window, his billiard-cue in his hand: 16 ❋ Unknown (1917)
The state of mind in which you take a billiard-cue or a dice-box in your hand is one of sober certainty compared with that of old-fashioned fathers, like Mr. Tulliver, when they selected a school or a tutor for their sons. ❋ Unknown (1917)
We can jab it off its hook with a billiard-cue, I should think, Moke. ❋ Ian Hay (1914)
It was now Pretty who came to him for the advance of cash enough to buy a walking-stick of the following superb description: a thoroughly even, straight-grained bit of hickory-wood, tapered like a billiard-cue, an inch and a half thick at the butt and three fourths of an inch thick at the point, the butt carrying a knob of silver, and the point heavily ferruled. ❋ Rupert Hughes (1914)
It ran straight as a billiard-cue just here, and was visible for a long distance, but at the corner, just outside the palings, the footpath over the downs to Brighton left the road, and struck upward. ❋ Unknown (1903)
One mourner, in pure absence of mind, had brought along his billiard-cue as a walking-stick; and every now and then would step out of the ranks and distribute whacks among the five or six dogs that frisked alongside the procession. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
"You mean the fellow with the billiard-cue who was here when we came in?" pursued Raffles. ❋ Unknown (1901)
He lifted the lid and propped it up with a short billiard-cue which fitted into a notch. ❋ Various (1898)
They say he could chalk his billiard-cue with his knuckles. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)
"I'll never forgive these men for their selfishness in monopolizing all this," said Elizabeth, with a vicious stroke of a billiard-cue, which missed the cue-ball and tore a right angle in the cloth. ❋ John Kendrick Bangs (1892)
