Cooper's pieces

Usage examples of staves.

A company of two-foots pressed back the jostling crowd, using long, straight staves tipped with glinting skystuff.

Green-plumed two-foots armed with skewers, not staves, escorted their green-clad leader and her companions along the rising path.

Lowering their staves, the purple-plumes strayed uncertainly to a stop.

The two-foot ruler eyed the young stallion suspiciously, but at a cautious nod from him, his purple-plumes fell back, staves still at the ready.

Though they bore no staves, slung from the middle of each dangled a flattened skewer.

The godking gestured with its skewer, and several of the purple-plumes cast aside their staves, rushing Tai-shan with forelimbs outstretched to catch his tethers.

In their fore-claws, some wielded staves carved of stone, or enormous blades, or long iron poles with reaping hooks.

Then he began to see more exiles, old women with staves hobbling along the road, young women with babes in arms.

The staves of mighty sorceresses were thrust between the skulls, sticking up like a crown.

Then they rushed over the brow of a hill, huge staves in hand, fur glowing red as it reflected the light of distant fires.

To the northwest, the frowth giants waded among the reavers, their huge iron-bound staves rising and crashing down.

Wall, and west toward Raj Ahten, even as their fell mage and her companions raised their staves and sent bolts of ice whirling into the elementals.

Their blades and staves reflected firelight from the elementals at their backs.

A knot of militia with two Port Authority men at their head was jogging down the quay toward them, staves glinting in the sun.

The vanguard of the heathen lads are going by, dusty but with energy undimmed, still keeping up their high-stepping dance, still giving the spirits of the air a bruising with their staves and spears.