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Definition of Quarterstaves
1. quarterstaff [n] - See also: quarterstaff
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quarterstaves
Literary usage of Quarterstaves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1894)
"They have rattled their mimic quarterstaves bravely and gone back to their box.
After a time the novelist lost the faculty even of making them rattle their ..."
2. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury (1895)
"They have rattled their mimic quarterstaves bravely and gone back to their box.
After a time the novelist lost the faculty even of making them rattle their ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1894)
"After a time the novelist lost the faculty even of making them rattle their
quarterstaves ; and then the wreck was indeed total. ..."
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