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Example sentences for "shillelagh"

Lexicographically close words:
shikaris; shikra; shilde; shill; shillalah; shillelah; shillin; shilling; shillinges; shillings
  1. There were pigs and little boys, but they were not neatly pink and they were not starving, and the old man did not swing a shillelagh or sing songs as I was passing by.

  2. I will make my shillelagh and his head wonderfully well acquainted, however, if I catch him trying to bolt again.

  3. Arthur and I started to our feet, and Tim clutched his shillelagh more firmly.

  4. No, nor Saint Patrick himself, with a shillelagh in his hand.

  5. The man who was with him, stumbling up against Seth Barker, had a touch of the shillelagh which was like a rock falling upon a fly.

  6. Then from the shelter of a rock arose a battered human, with a still more battered cornet, which looked as though it had been used as a shillelagh in moments of absent-mindedness, and he offered to awake the echo for a penny.

  7. Perhaps he took down his shillelagh and went out and assaulted the lord; perhaps he fled to the hills and became a brigand; perhaps he just sat philosophically down and let his creditors do the worrying.

  8. The shillelagh was then a beautiful, tough, formidable weapon, and when tipped with an iron ferrule was quite ready for action.

  9. The shillelagh was not a mere stick picked up for a few pence, or cut casually out of the common hedge.

  10. When the shillelagh was ready, other preparations were quickly completed.

  11. Under Secretary's head with a shillelagh for making such a suggestion.

  12. Illustration: One of the Finest Pisantry (in custody, having had a shillelagh difference with a fellow-countryman).


  13. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shillelagh" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.