The Maluku shield, it should be observed, is remarkably narrow, and is brandished somewhat in the same way as the single stick-player uses his stick, or the Irishman his shillelah, that is to say, it is held nearly in the center, and whirled every way round. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)
He stood with his hat on the back of his head, and his shillelah grasped in his dexter fist answering much at random the questions of the newly-arrived party from the Redhouse. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Malone walked round it somewhere in its great sooty flank he found another chink of light; he knocked at another door, using for the purpose the thick end of his shillelah, with which he beat a rousing tattoo. ❋ Unknown (2004)
On making up his mind as to the object of his choice, he proceeds by night to the camping-ground of the _fair_ one's tribe; searches her out among the sleeping beauties; deals her a blow on the head with his club, (to which an Irishman's shillelah is a twig,) and carries off the stunned and senseless wretch to his own camp. ❋ G. F. Davidson (N/A)
It was fashionable about that time not to walk forth without a nice little Irish shillelah under one's arm, with which a head could be made to sing unmercifully, in case of necessity. ❋ George A. Warren (N/A)
It deals around little doses of shillelah, just by way of experiment; and if the unlucky head does not happen to be that of an enemy, make it one; so it's all right again. ❋ Various (N/A)
They gave American, indeed, relatively few new words; perhaps shillelah, colleen, spalpeen, smithereens and poteen exhaust the unmistakably Gaelic list. ❋ Henry Louis (1921)
The latter, hearing some noises which he thought he ought not to have heard, rushed in upon the lovers and made such a display of his sprig of a shillelah that Mr. Bourbonnais incontinently found his way not only out of the house but also out of the fort, with Mr. McKenzie after him. ❋ Unknown (1898)
Is it evident that the political artist has studied the old masters, if he exhibits his genius by tapping an opponent's head with a shillelah? ❋ Unknown (1891)
Divine mercy on the doomed one; Mrs. Turner flushed, and looked wonderingly from one to the other; Mrs. Wilkins dropped her parasol and picked it up pretty much as though it were a shillelah and she meant to use it as such, and then the group began to break up. ❋ Charles King (1888)
All these things were normal, and the participants seldom ended their shillelah practice within the walls of "MacJannet's Hotel" -- MacJannet being the name of the chief gaoler of the town prison. ❋ Unknown (1887)
"Jist striking one!" replied the Irishman, giving him a rap over the sconce with his shillelah. ❋ No Author (1864)
They had no weapons of any kind, so their first care was to supply themselves with stout cudgels, which each cut in proportion to his notions of the uses and capacities of such implements -- that of Larry O'Hale being, of course, a genuine shillelah, while the weapon cut by Muggins was a close imitation of the club of ❋ Unknown (1859)
Donnybrook wid a shillelah for all the sieges of Sebastopool as ever I heard tell of. ❋ Francis B. Pearson (1859)
Just as we got outside the village, though not a sound reached our ears, we caught sight, coming round a corner on the right, of a party of men, each armed with a shillelah, which he grasped tightly in his right hand, while he looked keenly ahead, as if expecting some one to appear. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
Larry followed on a pony, with uncombed mane and tail, its coat as shaggy as a bear's; his only weapon a shillelah; his dress such as he usually wore on Sundays and holidays. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
"That's what I'll dare to do!" and he made a fierce blow at the head of the owner of the coat, which would have felled him in a moment, had he not been prepared to defend himself with his shillelah. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
Twisting his shillelah from his hands, and snatching the reins, I was in a moment in the saddle; but ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
How Larry had escaped seemed a wonder, till I heard that he had seized a handspike, and using it as a shillelah, or rather as a singlestick, had kept his enemies at bay, and defended himself. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
"If each of us had a good shillelah in our hands, we would be after making them sing a different tune," exclaimed Desmond, turning round every now and then, and casting a contemptuous look on the mob. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
