Meaning of dandy stick | Babel Free

Definitions

walking stick

obsolete

Examples

“He ran after the depredator that had been pointed out to him, and struck him with his dandy stick⟳ so smartly that he broke at once his own⟳ cane, and the assaulted man’s temper, for, turning fiercely round, the person exclaimed, “Who are you, you ruffian who dare to strike⟳ me?””

“To figure⟳ a New York judge⟳ aright, and to describe⟳ his costume in its true colors, I would dress him in a bottle-green velvet shooting-coat, with a crimson cravat, a flashy diamond to his shirt, and with light⟳ gray or yellow trousers; for the “ray of glory about his head,” I would put⟳ a jaunty “wide awake⟳;” for “the balance in his right hand,” a dandy stick⟳; for “Mercy on his left,” should stand⟳ some dog-fancier, horse-jockey, or Ward politician.”

“In June, John Loveday being then at Westring, one morning O’Hara arrived, he, too, having left mediæval chasubles to grind⟳ at war, and though he no longer taught Hogarth, a relation persisted between them; and always not far from O’Hara was to be found Harris, living now on the pinnacle of dandy bliss, twisting a dandy stick⟳.”

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