Finding that, in spite of his efforts, he could not keep back his assailants, Roger threw down thequarterstaff and seized his ax.
Why finger a distaff, when a quarterstaff comes more aptly to your hand?
Now, though she was never a clumsy jade, the practice of sword-play andquarterstaff had not refined the industry of her hands, which were the rather framed for strength than for delicacy.
Homer Crawford neatly rapped him on the right shin bone with his quarterstaff to the other's intense agony.
A good man with a quarterstaff can unhorse a knight in armor and batter him to death, in a minute or so.
They spotted a ruckus and could see Elmer Allen in the middle of it, hisquarterstaff flailing.
This poor fellow whom thou hast so belabored is counted the best hand at the quarterstaff in all merry England.
So saying, he raised his quarterstaff above his head in a threatening way.
On his head he wore a great tall leathern cap, and across his knees rested a stout quarterstaff of blackthorn, full as long and heavy as Robin's.
Then those that stood around saw the stoutest game of quarterstaff that e'er Nottingham Town beheld.
For five years he had held the mid-country champion belt for wrestling, till the great Adam o' Lincoln cast him in the ring and broke one of his ribs; but at quarterstaff he had never yet met his match in all the country about.
Then he strolled to the platform where they were at cudgel play, for he loved a bout at quarterstaff as he loved meat and drink; and here befell an adventure that was sung in ballads throughout the mid-country for many a day.
The quarterstaff prize was awarded to Long Hackett, one of John Forster's retainers.
Let ash answer iron," applied his quarterstaffwith so much force to the Independent's head, that lighting on the left temple, the blow proved almost instantly mortal.
But as he rushed upon his prey, rescue interposed in the person of Joceline Joliffe, with his quarterstaff on his shoulder.
It was a sight to see those thin grey haffets making a soft pillow of that jutting knee of gnarled and knotty oak, and with his well-worn quarterstaff held close in a hand all wrinkled skin and scraggy bone.
And from that day till he waved his quarterstaff when half over the river and shouted, Grace reigns!
A further similarity built up in Alcorn's subconscious, but died unconsidered because at that moment the quarterstaff bout on the screen ended and a brazen-voiced announcer gave the time.
And the poor fellow hung about sadly, thinking he should find none in the end, and swearing he would follow me even had he naught but a quarterstaff in his hand.
And next, I saw my quarterstaff still resting against the tree where I had left it.
Then all earth and sky grew red before my eyes, for here seemed to me the beginning of my revenge; and before these two knew that I had turned, out of the dim shadow I leapt upon them, silent, with that quarterstaff aloft.
He was dead, for the end of the quarterstaff had driven in his forehead, so madly had I struck at him with all my weight.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quarterstaff" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: baton; blackjack; cane; club; crook; crosier; cross; crutch; cudgel; mace; shillelagh; staff; stave; stick
