cane
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Rob Moulds said walking down Fordhouse Lane while using a cane was "a nightmare"
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
He often gets bitten by bedbugs and walks with a cane, making climbing up and down from his bed difficult.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
And they kept trying to take away my cane.
From Slate ● May 19, 2026
Sander does not romanticize, valorize or flatter them: The even lighting comes from an overcast sky; they are dressed in dark suits and hats, one smokes a cigarette, and each sports a cane.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
He held the cane up like a gun, pressed an unseen button, and a feathered dart shot out of it and stuck to the wall.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
Elderly and propping himself up with canes, he said this conflict was of a different magnitude.
From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026
Once able-bodied men, they walk with canes, one step at a time.
From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2025
Those costs will rise as France ages into dentures and canes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
And Buck’s partner, JT Friedman, leads a raucous rendition of Alan Jackson’s “Honky Tonk Christmas” while passing out candy canes from a stocking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025
He was pointing at the raspberry canes that edged the kitchen garden.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Italy was caned by New Zealand 96-17 last week in Lyon but the Azzurri are usually thrashed by the All Blacks.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
"They went to Aston Villa, got caned and never recovered," said BBC Radio Solent's Adam Blackmore of a 4-0 hammering at Villa Park in March.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2023
Before drafting his design, Mr. Jouin visited the Richelieu and saw a mix of seating in various rooms, including rows of high-backed caned chairs.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2022
I ended up selling our beloved caned bentwood chairs because they just weren't comfortable to sit in for a long time.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2022
Sometimes, indeed, he appeared to be quite sensible of his absurd position, caned by his enemy, and ridiculed by his friends, in whose cause he was suffering.
From The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels by Hall, Basil
To him, the caning was in principle no different.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
“Miracle on 34th Street” probably was the first movie to give the commercialism of the holidays a stiff caning as we watch mega-department stores Gimbel’s and Macy’s try to outdo each other in Christmas sales.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
Zimbabwe's constitutional court has banned the caning of juvenile convicts as a judicial punishment.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2019
If Sietsema gave a brutal caning to a new spot you’d probably look askance if you found out that he owned a place across the street.
From Fox News ● Dec. 31, 2018
The next one had on it: Why has south eastern Alaska so many caning factories?
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
