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Definition of Truncheons
1. truncheon [v] - See also: truncheon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Truncheons
Literary usage of Truncheons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"Of home and country schooled them to be brave Camilla's way) rained weapons from
the walls, And used oak-staves and truncheons shaped in flame, As if, ..."
2. The British Essayists by James Ferguson (1823)
"But chang'd their pens for truncheons, ink for blood, I will not so far affront
those gentlemen,who were at any time engaged in the study of the three ..."
3. The Lounger's Common-place Book: Or Miscellaneous Collections in History by Jeremiah Whitaker Newman (1838)
"Not young attorneys have this rage -withstood, But changed their pens for
truncheons, ink for blood. ***** To check such heroes and their laurels crop, ..."
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