"One moment I could have clubbed him over the head, if I'd had at hand anything heavier than a mahlstick, but I daresay he knew what he was talking about.
"A Top-Floor Idyl"
George van Schaick
I can scold, I can become unbearable, when this, for example," here he pointed with his mahlstick to the Savonarola, "does not please me."
"Jacqueline, v1"
Th. Bentzon (Mme. Blanc)
"Only one way to fix him," remarked Stebbins, picking up his mahlstick from the grass beside him.
"The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women"
F. Hopkinson Smith
