The Pueblos often show outsiders the silver-tipped canes given them by President Abraham Lincoln.

He keeps a silver-tipped cane at hand in case there is a need for a show of force.

It was the thigh operation that caused him to cancel his scheduled trips last fall, and for months afterward he walked with evident pain, leaning on a silver-tipped cane.

The dead poet's mother, Violet Venable, bops Catharine's brother over the head with her silver-tipped cane.

We hear the tap, tap of a silver-tipped cane as a convivial ancient follows us around in hope of scraping up an acquaintance.

Maggs wears a red waistcoat and carries a silver-tipped cane.

Wherever he went, he was accompanied by a sense of theatrical history, which was as endemic to his personality as his silver-tipped cane and black velour hat.

"We don't need outsiders," he said in a recent interview, attired in an open-neck shirt and slacks and grasping a silver-tipped cane.

He appears like translucent shadows, vaguely human in form, perching on a silver-tipped cane, hooded, preventing view of his eyes.

In his hand was the emblem of his authority - a long, slender, silver-tipped cane with a curved handle.