Behind them came the bombers and the knobkerrie men.

Neville reached for the knobkerrie he kept beneath the bar.

The barman made haste along the counter and brought a knobkerrie into play.

Two of the knobkerrie team grabbed the offender from behind, pinioning him with great force.

As soon as a victim was designated, the knobkerrie men killed him.

It was his twisted knobkerrie with the carved figures.

In his right he carried a knobkerrie like the mace of a medieval knight.

He had been stabbed through the thigh and his left arm was broken in two places by blows from a knobkerrie.

He sang out the names of the tribal leaders, and as each was shoved forward, the knobkerrie team began the slaughter.

He got the knobkerrie and unsteadily hitched forward and peered out the door.

The knobkerrie crashed upon the stout wood of the spear haft and glanced to one side.

First he appointed a knobkerrie team of six, choosing the tallest, strongest and most brutal men from his new recruits.

Straight as a sizzling arrow, Jonnie threw his knobkerrie.

Munk jabbed Wesley in the back with the knobkerrie again, driving him toward the door.

A surge of anger went through him as he put his briefcase down and picked up a knobkerrie he kept in the umbrella stand.

They would strike at dusk-all three of them-when the king was more or less detached from his knobkerrie guards.

With the robes and the beard and the knobkerrie and everything, he looked mightily impressive.

The three recognized him simultaneously and knew why he had come and why he carried the knobkerrie.

Munk grabbed his knobkerrie, but this time he thumped Tunk.

The barman shinned over the bar counter and bore down upon the lounge boy's attacker, knobkerrie raised.

Neville raised his knobkerrie.

They are also issued with a device called a 'knobkerrie', which ordnance will later refer to as a 'life preserver'.

Doubtfully, Colonel Ivan handed him the knobkerrie and at the same time tried to get the interpreter to translate.

The knobkerrie had been brought in as a gift from a chief in Africa who didn't know Jonnie was crippled.

Colonel Ivan breasted some people aside and thrust the knobkerrie into Jonnie's hand.

The knobstick: a story of love and labour, 1893.

Then he has a knobstick thrown at him; and his beast is driven off by your own boys.

Acting on this hint the black devil held up the child, and was about to kill it with his knobstick.

I don't believe you know what a knobstick is.'

'I think we all know what a knobstick is, metaphorically.'

She gives as an example a word that may be vulgar but which she finds expressive: knobstick.

Clarke's best-known novel, The Knobstick (1893), was originally serialized in the Yorkshire Factory Times.

For example, in North and South Margaret Hale suggests redding up (tidying) the Bouchers' house and even offers jokingly to teach her mother words such as knobstick (strike-breaker).

Examples of such serialized novels include Lancashire Lads and Lasses (which ran from November 1895 to February 1896) and The Knobstick, both authored by C. Allen Clarke.