I think I may say with confidence that the use of the courbash as a general practice in connection either with collection of taxes or the extortion of evidence has ceased.
Traill): "The courbash used to be very frequently employed for two main objects, viz.
But even if they flog me with that courbash every day and even kill me, I will not stop thinking of rescuing Nell and myself from the hands of these villains.
And I tell you that you shall not raise the courbash at either of them.
Saying this, Idris struck his camel with a courbash and his example was followed by the others.
With terror she saw in the first luster of the morning Stas lying on the ground and above him a Bedouin with a courbash in his hand.
The stony heart was not moved either by humility or by groans, and the courbash gashed the body of the unhappy boy upon the most trivial cause and often for none whatever.
The courbash is a fearful whip made of hippopotamus' hide, a stroke from which is felt by a bullock as painfully as a cut from an ordinary whip is by a horse.
Then Hassan stepped up, courbash in hand, and measured his distance.
Harry when the distracting cries extracted by the courbash had ceased.
The boatswain gave the signal to weigh anchor, and leaping upon the middle of the gangway began to lay on to the shoulders of the crew with his courbash or whip, and to haul out gradually to sea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "courbash" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
