I used to be a fair hand with singlestick not long ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Born To Run]

George Fairburn had ever been an adept at all school games, and had spent many a leisure hour at singlestick.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne] Reference

Captain Galsworthy was a frequent visitor, and though he was past eighty, insisted on giving our boys their first lessons with the singlestick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference

In the compass of eighteen pages of a work now before us we have details of no less than two grand matches of singlestick, one Wiltshire against.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference

The play at singlestick at Salisbury races on Wednesday was very dull, there being no players of note to meet the Somersetshire men, who carried off the prize easily.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference

In our very first introduction to Mr. Holmes, the story “A Study In Scarlet”, Watson describes Holmes as “an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Real Sherlock Holmes | Heretical Ideas Magazine] Reference

He had been taught fencing as a part of his education, and would use the singlestick, arquebus, and crossbow, while the fashion of every gentleman wearing a sword had rendered it necessary that this weapon should be handled skilfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hayslope Grange A Tale of the Civil War] Reference

Is an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study in Scarlet] Reference

Ha, Sergeant, an 'my memory serves me right, we have had many a bout at singlestick.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rose and the Ring] Reference

But I dinna ken—we’re baith gey good at singlestick, and it couldna weel be judged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter XXXVI] Reference

His belief was that his proficiency in singlestick was matched only by his skill in song.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Reminiscences] Reference

The knowledge of singlestick and quarterstaff still lingered, in the country parts of England.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under Drake's Flag A Tale of the Spanish Main] Reference

"She can fence," said the little friar, "and draw the long bow, and play at singlestick and quarter-staff.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Maid Marian] Reference

It was, to use the term of the old-fashioned singlestick players, "first blood," and the sight thereof had a disastrous effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain] Reference

He was an enthusiastic singlestick player and in 1905 showed up at a White House reception with his arm bandaged after a bout with General.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

There, in my mind's eye, I see us as we practise archery and the use of the singlestick, both noble sports and much favoured by the early Britons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fibble, D.D.] Reference

We have a President who so far forgets the traditions of his office as to beguile his spare moments by whacking the heads of his friends in a game of singlestick.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mayor of Warwick] Reference

At first we declined, and reminded him that he had punished us terribly with gloves and foils and singlestick, and that it would be even worse with knives-he would cut us in pieces!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Far Away and Long Ago] Reference

The singlestick rattle of compliment in the interview first given, and the rather obvious and superfluous meditations of the second, may seem, if not exactly disgusting, tedious and jejune.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paddy Finn] Reference

There was a good deal of merriment to divert our attention, for there were clowns and merry-andrews passing along the highroad, with singlestick players, Punch and Judy shows, and other public amusers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins]

Donnelly, Professor of Arms for the Society for the Study of Swordsmanship, during the HSD gathering at Etal, Northumberland, on August 18-19, 2007, using Highland methods prescribed for the basket-hilt broadsword with singlestick.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Lawyer for Russian arms suspect held in Thailand says new US charges won't lead to extradition] Reference

I used to be a fair hand with singlestick not long ago. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Omnibus]

Ha, Sergeant, an my memory serves me right, we have had many a bout at singlestick.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rose and the Ring] Reference

A pair of fighters, one bearing a mace and shield, the other, the unusual weapon of singlestick, walked side-by-side into the center of the "arena.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elvenbane]

I’ve never had occasion to wear an elaborate disguise or engage in a singlestick duel, but the the enterprises are otherwise not all that different.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Moriarty London wgah’nagl fhtagn] Reference

Sergeant, an my memory serves me right, we have had many a bout at singlestick. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh] Reference

I have acquired some facility in the use of that, having practised singlestick as an amusement at school. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America] Reference

"A game of singlestick is it?".    From Wordnik.com.  [With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne] Reference

2007, using Highland methods prescribed for the basket-hilt broadsword with singlestick.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Lawyer for Russian arms suspect held in Thailand says new US charges won't lead to extradition] Reference