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  Swordstick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A swordstick or canesword is a cane incorporating a concealed blade.
A swordstick may be illegal to carry in many jurisdictions.
It is a concealed weapon, and is sometimes considered a disguised weapon.
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 Self-Defense Forums: For A Fighting Chance - My Great Great Grandfather's Sword Stick
This swordstick was carried by my Great Great Grandad when he was an estate manager in Australia, back in the days when British subjects were free to carry weapons for self-defence.
Swordstick Unfortunately it's been neglected and is in in rather poor condition.
A guy at college with me had a swordstick with a very similar blade but mounted in a mallaca cane shaft and handle, his was from when his great grand father was a shipping manager in Singapore, I remember the blade was marked Birmingham.
www.selfdefenseforums.com /forums/showthread.php?t=10549   (906 words)

  
 Cane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is apparently the case that a license was required to carry a cane in London during the 18th century, possibly because of the use as a weapon, in essence a fighting stick.
A particular type of walking stick was created, called Swordstick.
This concealed a blade within the stem, which can be made to appear from a cane so as to convert it into a (normally hidden) weapon.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cane   (619 words)

  
 Chapter The Seventh Pullet of The Seventh Pullet by Saki (Hector Munro)
My aunt had intended screaming for the police, but seeing the indifference with which the principal in the affair treated the matter she felt that it would be an impertinence on her part to interfere.
A fortnight later a bank manager was stabbed to death with a swordstick in that very part of the Bois.
His assassin was the son of a charwoman formerly working at the bank, who had been dismissed from her job by the manager on account of chronic intemperance.
www.bibliomania.com /0/5/153/497/18493/3.html   (631 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Film | Reviews | Zatoichi
It's at this point Zatoichi's swordstick is unsheathed from his blind-man's cane and he wreaks mayhem in sizzling fight scenes, whose crimson spouts of blood are stylised, indirect, almost abstract.
Zatoichi is sitting by a dusty country road, his swordstick lying negligently next to him.
A crowd of samurai underlings bribe a small boy to steal it; they taunt Zatoichi with how easily he is defeated, and then, of course, he astonishes them with his violent and devastatingly effective response.
film.guardian.co.uk /News_Story/Critic_Review/Guardian_Film_of_the_week/0,4267,1172362,00.html   (719 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
So you don't really take it in at first, but, notwithstanding his resemblance to a drowned rat, he is still himself.
He of the rosewood swordstick and the poetical hands, the grey gaze and the 18th century bearing.
Expect to live your next life as a dung beetle." You know the pen he means-- or at least, it seems likely that he's still using it, the fl fountain pen with a gold clip.
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 swordstick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Baron always carries a cane, which is a swordstick, and he wears round dark glasses.
wearing a cape and a crumpled hat, tiny glasses pinched to the end of his nose, swordstick in hand, laughter blowing through his moustache.
wooden panelling or boarding on room-wall andquot;Sapristi!andquot; A French exclamation - andquot;Good Heavens!andquot; Swordstick a hollow walking stick enclosing a swordblade Bag-Wig a wig, the back-hair of which was enclosed in an...
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
>i You are carrying: three food items: a sprig of mint a sprig of parsley a bay leaf a dashing hat (being worn) a swordstick a sword a snuffbox (which is closed) >[Oh, man, I missed the swordstick the first time through.
>i You are carrying: four food items: a sprig of mint a sprig of parsley a bay leaf a loaf of stale bread a burnt scrap of paper a dashing hat (being worn) a swordstick a sword a snuffbox (which is closed) >dash hat That's not a verb I recognize.
>link swordstick to knife You valiantly try to link the two objects, but they are just a little too different.
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 Curse of the Sun Kings: Chapter 11 -17 End!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Had it not been for the deadly little swordstick Justin Prestwicke had given me back in England, I might well now be dead.
I made do with my swordstick, having long decided that this dandy's accoutrement was now my single most prized possession.
Starflower stopped and slightly raised the swordstick in her hand, showing me that she had already released its blade from the sheath.
thedaneadventures.blogspot.com /2004/11/chapter-11-17-end.html   (24062 words)

  
 CHARLIE'S ANGELS
Thin Man Costume & Swordstick [FCCATMC] - £1,250.00 : Propmasters.net
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The chrome handled stunt version swordstick can be unscrewed from it's sheath to reveal a hard blade wrapped in metalic paper to represent metal.
This version of the Sword Stick also features a removable extension to the lower part of the handle which is utilised and clearly visible when 'The Thin Man' has Alex pinned to the floor in the closing fight sequence of the film.
There is production damage to the lower portion of the sheath (caused when The Thin Man discards it after withdrawing the swordstick).
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At that moment a youngish man came up way behind him, drew the b1ade from a swordstick, and stabbed him ha1f a dozen times through and through.
A fortnight 1ater a bank manager was stabbed to death with a swordstick in that somewhat part of the Bois.
His assassin was the son of a charwoman former1y working at the bank, who had been dismissed from her job by the manager on account of chronic intemperance.
www.dailywhopper.com /books/dwbeastssuper/beastssuper077dw.php   (453 words)

  
 HarperCollins Publishers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
A retired naval officer, he was fifty when invited to form the secret service.
At first he had no staff and subsidised operations from his own pocket, mounting them himself – with disguise and swordstick.
"Judd describes a character who might have stepped from the pages of John Buchan, a larger-than-life figure who liked to travel abroad with a swordstick and whose firm belief was that the perfect spy ''should be a gentleman.
www.harpercollins.co.uk /books/default.aspx?id=7133   (332 words)

  
 Curse of the Sun Kings: Chapter Four and Five   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
As I was preparing to leave the hold, Belle Boyd descended the narrow companionway that led to the upper decks.
She was carrying her fl parasol, a small flat case of some kind under one arm -- and my swordstick.
She smiled at me, laid the case on a barrel top and threw my swordstick across the hold to me.
thedaneadventures.blogspot.com /2004/11/chapter-four-and-five.html   (11161 words)

  
 news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Adam Adamant swordstick was release by Lone Star in 1966.
The swordstick came in brightly illustrated packaging (see scan) and today only one known example of an unopened an unused swordstick survives.The swordstick contained a hidden compartment in the handle and was able to shoot both corks and water.
Sent out by the BBC in 1966, this features Gerald Harper in a stylish and simple photographic design.
www.leerose.btinternet.co.uk /merch01.htm   (658 words)

  
 The Avengers Forever: The Young Avenger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The funniest thing is the tag, and that is so bad, it makes you laugh at it.
A couple of half-hearted encounters in the street paled by comparison to the great Steed scene at the end where he manages to fight off every swordstick thrown at him by his assailant.
Maybe things would have been better if David Lodge, after his performance in "Epic," had actually made it onto the screen.
theavengers.tv /forever/king-23yav.htm   (375 words)

  
 M= They Ate the Truth 13 | ABCtales.com
himself with the swordstick, he's never come across one before.
Give Us a Clue when someone was near to the answer.
Bill realises that Chesterton ought to have the swordstick as they
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 Clockwork Orange and other fruits
My mom wouldn’t let me se it as it was banned in a lot of towns except mine!
I got a swordstick from Duncan (scary spice) for my birthday.
I wanted one for the tour as a prop for Jungle Ride which was based about those times.I always loved the scene by the lake with Dim coming out the water!
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 Pulpmovies Reviews » Blind Fury   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
This also gives us a chance to meet Deveraux’s annoying kid, Billy (Brandon Call), and means that Parker is around when a pair of crooked cops, along with a character going by the name of Slag, turn up to try to kidnap Lynn and Billy.
So Parker and his amazing swordstick save the day and send the cops to the great precinct in the sky.
Slag, being a Major Villain escapes so he can harass Parker until the Climactic Battle at the end of the film.
www.pulpmovies.com /reviews/blind-fury   (530 words)

  
 Swordstick Concert Tickets, Biography, Music and Posters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Note especially the Japanese shikomizue and the Ancient Roman dolon.A swordstick may be illegal to carry in many jurisdictions.
Search TicketMaster for all the latest Swordstick concerts and Swordstick concert tickets.
Follow the links below to learn more about Swordstick.
www.chartbreaker.net /Swordstick.htm   (97 words)

  
 Dance to the Music of Time
Now he crushed it into his hand, and threw the ball of paper back into the Canal.
He lifted the swordstick behind his head, and, putting all his force into the throw, cast it as far as this would carry, high into the air.
The stick turned and descended, death's head first.
www.andover.edu /english/jgould/dance/dance10.html   (4401 words)

  
 The Avengers Forever: Visitor Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
An immensely elegant Steed, Emma as gorgeous as ever she was, a cast of stellar talent (the steely Peter Barkworth -- later the magical Merlin in "The Morning After" -- saturnine Philip Madoc, and unnervingly-affable Terence Alexander in the same episode?
We even get a regiment of "gentlemen" doing Hitler-salutes with their swordstick umbrellas chanting "Hail!
Television doesn't get much cleverer, or more fun, than this.
theavengers.tv /forever/peel2-9vr.htm   (426 words)

  
 after_survivor: 13 August, 3pm. A meeting with Lady Octavia.
He does not, however, have any notion what she can wish to speak with him about at this time.
And so he arrives, punctually at 3pm precisely, and gives his travelling cloak and swordstick to the lackey who meets him in an ante chamber and ushers him into the presence.
His heart sinks when he sees the table laid for afternoon tea - merde, no doubt he'll be obliged to eat those abominable cucumber sandwiches again!
www.livejournal.com /community/after_survivor/290775.html   (4258 words)

  
 FA220404 Lot:618-647
The Third of Bulbous Form, carved with zig-zag decoration in places.
A KHANJAR DAGGER Straight double-edged damascene blade, with Foilage and Silver/Gold inlay.
A CANE SWORDSTICK SCM mounts with etched single-edged blade marked Eibar, 29" (74cm).
www.lawrences.co.uk /Catalogues/Fa220404/page18.htm   (598 words)

  
 Drowning and Other Fragments: Operation Fortress
She also advised me to take the attack alarm (which she herself had given me years ago because she was so concerned when I told her that I was in the habit of taking long walks in the middle of the night) and my mobile 'phone with me wherever I go.
And my swordstick, I thought but I didn't tell Lisa this.
Names have been changed to protect the innocent
drowningandotherfragments.blogspot.com /2005/03/operation-fortress.html   (265 words)

  
 Re: Swordstick
"GarySport" wrote in message news:20040609014308.07445.00000862@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If a percussion part calls for a "swordstick", does anyone know what that is?
Is > there a certain percussion "toy" by this name, or something improvised like two > crowbars strking against each other?
Never had call for a "swordstick" in my orchestral career.
www.talkaboutthemusic.com /group/rec.music.makers.percussion/messages/469738.html   (156 words)

  
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Aladdin wore a hooded cloak of indeterminate color over his regular street clothes.
He also had a walking stick in his hand that MIGHT be a swordstick, but Mozenrath didn't care.
A sword wouldn't help the Street Rat now!
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Land/4975/bridemoze2.txt   (3331 words)

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