Looking for sentences and phrases with the word quarterstaff? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
In battle, it could be wielded as a quarterstaff against swordsmen, or as a pike against cavalry.
However, he could find many ways to make a sword or a quarterstaff a deadly weapon.
The quarterstaff attained great popularity in England during the Middle Ages.
Across 18 short chapters, there's cracking dialogue and a lot of action – sword and shield, wrestling, boxing, quarterstaff.
Apparently they want me to learn how to use a quarterstaff and a dagger.
The only character to use a quarterstaff in the early ballads is the potter, and Robin Hood does not take to a staff until the 17th century Robin Hood and Little John.
Examples from Classical Literature
In his right hand he carried a quarterstaff, which he used as a walking-stick.
The knowledge of singlestick and quarterstaff still lingered, in the country parts of England.
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.
Thou art a deft hand at quarterstaff and singlestick, though, and I doubt not that thy hands can guard thy head.
Sometimes there were wrestling matches, and combat with sword and quarterstaff.
The English are but bunglers with a gentleman's blade, and should restrict themselves to pike and quarterstaff.
The renowned Hercules always carried a quarterstaff, and was from thence called Claviger.
The only other handweapon capable of countering it is another quarterstaff.
One blow with my quarterstaff, on the back of the head under the steel cap, will do that noiselessly enough.
And next, I saw my quarterstaff still resting against the tree where I had left it.
This poor fellow whom thou hast so belabored is counted the best hand at the quarterstaff in all merry England.
Now and then they stopped to rest, and each thought that he never had seen in all his life before such a hand at quarterstaff.
So I examined billhook and quarterstaff, and at last said I knew them.
In the good town of Blyth there lived a stout tanner, celebrated far and near for feats of strength and many tough bouts at wrestling and the quarterstaff.
SwordPlay even offers classes in specialty weapons such as the quarterstaff, a stick that is held in both hands, and cloak and dagger, in which the cape is used as a shield.
Quarterstaff was returning from a break when collared close home by Robbo at Carlisle where the pair where five lengths clear of previous course winner Red Rampage.
Dempsey sent Left Bank into the lead approaching the final fence and kept him right up to his work to hold the renewed challenge of Quarterstaff by threequarters of a length.
