swagger stick in a sentence
Examples
- Bearss has been called a pied piper, but instead of a flute he flourishes a swagger stick or riding crop as he recounts in dramatic tones and great detail long-ago events and the colorful people who shaped them.
- General William J . Livsey, who was the Commanding General of the Eighth United States Army in South Korea from 1984 to 1987 publicly carried a swagger stick that was carved from wood collected at the Korean Demilitarized Zone Axe Murder Incident poplar tree.
- General William J . Livsey, who was the commanding general of the Eighth United States Army in South Korea from 1984 to 1987, publicly carried a swagger stick that was carved from wood collected at the Korean Demilitarized Zone axe murder incident poplar tree.
- Until 1939 swagger sticks were still carried by peacetime regular soldiers when off duty but the practice ceased with the outbreak of World War II . Uniforms are no longer worn by British army personnel when off duty and the swagger stick has accordingly become obsolete.
- Until 1939 swagger sticks were still carried by peacetime regular soldiers when off duty but the practice ceased with the outbreak of World War II . Uniforms are no longer worn by British army personnel when off duty and the swagger stick has accordingly become obsolete.
- _The sun shows signs of breaking through the heavy gray cloud cover in the portrait of Gen . George Patton, painted shortly after the German surrender in World War II . The Army tank commander is shown complete with a swagger stick and his trademark ivory-handled revolver.
- He was known for his flamboyant style, wearing a camouflage jungle suit, a black three-starred cap to indicate his rank, carrying a snub-nosed Smith & Wesson . 38 handgun, and was always seen with a swagger stick, quipping " " I use it to spank the Viet Cong " ".
- In 1963, it was discovered that a characteristic triple nick mark on a military swagger stick, found among Andrew Irvine's possessions, matched a similar mark on the ice-axe's shaft, making it likely that the ice-axe belonged to Irvine, although there is some doubt as to whether the marks were present on the ice-axe when it was discovered.
- Computer mice, not swagger sticks, were in the hands of the British air marshal and three-star Ukrainian general moving troops and fighter planes about on the big-screen projection of Azure, a place every bit as ravaged as Kosovo except for the one advantage _ it was a dream in a NATO war-game, not the real-life nightmare in Yugoslavia.