knout

"You shall have a taste of the knout at the next stage."

In Russia he had been expert with the knout, no less than the sword.

The knout had traced three blue furrows on Gregory's shoulders.

Cugel picked up the knout and held it at the ready.

Also that if she ever tried to get in touch with his son again, he would see to it that she'd die under the knout.

"And let his mother perish under the knout?"

The answer was the knout, and the policeman who exercised the whipping hit him so awkwardly that he broke his back.

But the matron, who had meanwhile carefully looked for a knout, pushed her rudely away.

Chancellor Bestuchef, in the year 1756, was forced to confession by the knout.

"I see the mark of the knout which I gave you, traitor and coward!

"Oh, you forget, my friend; you know well she does not reckon with her friends: remember the strokes of the knout."

Instead of trying to coax the serfs to work, the gentry began to resort to the knout.

It is not hard to interpret the words 'proper measures' as understood in the land of the knout.

I should have brought a knout.

The Russian knout had different forms.

And raising the knout he struck Ogareff a sharp blow across the face.

Such wars end only with a dictatorship that restores order by the knout, or with partition.

The second time, he was sentenced to 25 blows with the knout in front of the town hall and sent to far-away Siberia.

The suspended victims were whipped with knout and sometimes burned with hot torches.

They had died--of fever, in the mines, under the knout.

The apeman screamed in angry triumph and struck at her with his knout.

Sangarre, close to him, said one word, "The knout!"

His garments were leather and, waking or sleeping, he was accompanied by a leather knout.

The dull brute Christians red with the weal Of the knout - they will not wait!

The knout, a short wooden handle to which were fastened eight or ten short leather straps, began its work.