"Quarterstaff" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... leaning on his pilgrim's staff, as though weary with this whole matter. He said to Ostrander, interestedly, "So you've been checked out on judo? Know anything about the use of the quarterstaff?" ...
— Border, Breed Nor Birth • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... Cnut led the way upstairs, followed by the foresters, Cuthbert, as before, allowing five or six of them to intervene between him and the leader. He carried his short sword and a quarterstaff, a weapon by no means to be despised in the hands of an active and ...
— Winning His Spurs - A Tale of the Crusades • George Alfred Henty |
