"Nightstick" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have made it back to the base that night," said Frank, ignoring them, "if a policeman hadn't come along and rapped me on the shoulder with his nightstick. I pretended to go, but I doubled around the corner and ...
— The Love of Frank Nineteen • David Carpenter Knight
... girl leaned close, trying to console her, but the Gibsonian cop, being of the new order, passed on, pretending not to notice, for he was wise enough to know that these matters are beyond help so far as the power he represents is concerned, though he rap the pavement with his nightstick till the sound goes ...
— The Trimmed Lamp and Others • O Henry |
