From time to time he raised his bludgeon and ran in at me, but a sharp prod under the upraised arm always sent him leaping back out of reach with the inevitable 'Ow--er!
He advanced threateningly, grasping his bludgeon by the smaller end, but when he had approached within a couple of paces I made a sudden lunge with my stick, introducing its ferrule to his abdomen about the region of the solar plexus.
Realizing at last that a clumsily-wielded bludgeon is powerless against a stick expertly handled rapier-wise, he dropped his club, and the next moment the moonbeams flashed from the broad blade of a knife.
I’ve got a jab–knife and a bludgeon dotted with nails.
Mind-voices shouted and screamed but he paid no attention; he swung his bludgeon over his head with a ferocity that made it whistle with a low sound in the wind.
One of the defenders broke through the line around him, and he brought the bludgeon smashing down at him before he could thrust with his sword; the warrior fell to one side at the last moment and took the blow along one arm.
In some countries abroad still, 'even in America,' the method of political caricature was of the bludgeon kind.
First, this matter of the bludgeon left, as her husband declared, leaning against the old oak in the bottom of the ravine.
I am the guilty man, not Scoville, and not Oliver, though Oliver may have been in the ravine that night and even handled the bludgeon I found at my feet in the recesses of Dark Hollow.
Flinging the bludgeon down, he hurries up the embankment and so on into town.
They tried to prove, as you will remember, that it was John who thus disfigured the bludgeon he always carried with pride.
But we are told that after demonstrating this fact with the same bludgeon which had done its bloody work in the Hollow, the prisoner showed a sudden interest in this weapon and begged to see it closer.
The shadow cast by Oliver as he made his way towards the bridge, with my husband's bludgeon in his hand.
The big tax-exempt organizations use their tax-exempt billions to buy prestige and power for themselves, and to bludgeon some critics into silence.
And, in 1961, as always, the great, tax-supported propaganda machine used a fear psychology to bludgeon the people into silence and the Congress into obedience.
But the scowl of Barnabas grew only the blacker, his lips but curled the fiercer, and his fingers tightened their grip upon the bludgeon as, alone now, he fronted those who remained of the nine.
They threatened him with bludgeon and knife until at last he acquiesced in their demands, though sullenly, and then Tarzan stepped close before Cadj.
Raising his bludgeon he rushed upon the High Priestess; but Tarzan was there before her.
A blow from a bludgeon on the right cheek and temple of Augustus felled that hero.
Well," Miss Greeby leaned forward with her elbows on her knees, and dandled the bludgeon with both hands.
All right," answered the lady, nodding, and gripped her bludgeon crosswise behind her back with two hands.
With her bludgeon under her arm and her hands in the pockets of her jacket, she stalked through the camp in quite a masculine fashion, not vouchsafing a single reply to the greetings which the gypsies gave her.
Miss Greeby pushed the point of her bludgeoninto the spongy ground, and looked thoughtful.
Heavy bludgeon whirled, long cane whizzed and the fellow, uttering a hoarse gasp, dropped his weapon and gave back, clutching at useless, dangling limb.
Saying which he resettled his ruffles, tucked the bludgeon under his arm and bowed.
A compromise which embargoed the free laborer of the North and West, and clutched at the staff he leaned upon, to turn it into a bludgeon and fell him with its stroke.
Carrying a candle in one hand and a great bludgeon in the other, he examined every room, every closet, the attic, and the cellar.
When he had done all this, he brought his bludgeon and laid it on the table beside me; also he laid there a large knife.
He swore a terrible oath and stepped back to seize the heavybludgeon on the table.
A compromise which embargoed the free laborer of the North and West, and, clutched at the staff he leaned upon, to turn it into a bludgeon and fell him with its stroke.
Smollett, who reviewed it in the Critical Review, appears to have kept his temper pretty well for a Scotchman; but Kenrick, a hack employed by Griffiths to maltreat the book in the Monthly Review, flourished his bludgeon in a brave manner.
What savages we are, unable through any disciple to learn that the world can only be saved by submitting to law and by ceasing to wield the bludgeon of force.
And strikes are only war in another form--the bludgeon of force!
We have, in truth, abolished the bludgeon of force as between man and man, but pagan Rome did that.
The arms of such a republic might have for its supporters the bludgeon and the sword, with the figure of Liberty battered and bleeding, slashed and sabred, gagged and fettered, in the middle.
The priest went mad, and with his heavy bludgeon ran amuck among his fellows.
It was a great brute of a fellow tiptoeing upon him from behind with a huge bludgeon in his hand, and then, as the man and his confederates saw that he was discovered, there was a concerted rush upon Tarzan from all sides.
At the same instant a female figure dashed into the midst of the bloodthirsty horde, and, with a bludgeon similar to their own, except that it was wrought from gold, beat back the advancing men.
Others picked up chairs, while the fellow with the bludgeon raised it high above his head in a mighty swing that would have crushed Tarzan's head had it ever descended upon it.
Wild, hurling the bludgeon at him, with such fatal effect, that striking him on the head it brought him instantly to the ground.
Leblanc's head a sort of bludgeon made of two balls of lead, at the two ends of a bar of iron.
A man of lofty stature, enveloped in a long coat, with folded arms, and bearing in his right fist a bludgeon of which the leaden head was visible, stood a few paces in the rear of the spot where Jean Valjean was crouching over Marius.
Late in the afternoon he came to the window for the hundredth time, and brandishing the bludgeon so that the sunshine fell directly upon it, held it aloft for us to admire the great glittering gem that now sparkled deep-bedded in the ugly wax.
The latter was indicated by the manner in which it banged its own legs and the sides of its carriage with a wicker bludgeon that had once been a rattle.
It looked earnestly at the young man, and gave the edges of its carriage a whack which knocked the bludgeon out of its hand.
Their arrows were gone, their darts exhausted, and no spearman was among them; they fought with nature's weapons, while above them one lone clubman struggled to swing down his lethal bludgeon without killing his fellows.
The clubman, after a curious inspection of the packs, stood on guard among them, his bludgeon grasped loosely but suggestively, ready to prevent any undue inquisitiveness by the rest.
It will deal you the stroke of a bludgeon with the playfulness of a cane.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bludgeon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
