She overflows so with the Bible, that she spills it upon every occasion, and will not cudgel her maids without Scripture.
Radisson was upon him with a cudgel like a flail on wheat.
Only they knew that Smiler came home, with blood upon his withers, and father was found in the morning dead on the moor, with his ivy-twisted cudgel lying broken under him.
Just such another matter this is Betwixt the Trojans and Ulysses; His cudgel first he level'd at And laid the bold Deiopis flat, A taller fellow and a fatter You never saw, except the hatter.
They fight no more; for this good day Paris and Menelaus say They'll have one bout at cudgel play.
The stranger looked sternly at the waggish apprentice, and seemed to grasp his cudgel in rather a menacing fashion.
The little fillip on the coward's cheek Serves as though crab-tree cudgel broke his pate.
The animal raised his cudgel at the sight of his enemies, and brought it to the ground furiously and with such force that it was a wonder that it was not broken into a hundred pieces.
Then, singling out one in particular, he leapt at him with unexpected suddenness, and, throwing his cudgel to the ground, gripped the unfortunate fellow in his arms.
And now the children would be well only when the dame was with them; so the parents sought to engage her to live with them, but the old Turk would not give his consent, and beat her severely with a cudgel on the slightest pretext.
Then he moved on, and Peter did not stir, but waited until the jug and the cudgel and the man were out of sight.
I stripped off my boots, took a pull at a flask of brandy, loosened the knife in its sheath, and took the cudgel between my teeth.
I had with me a short stout cudgel and a long knife.
I once heard a gipsy sing a song which celebrated one of their battles, and in it the brave and determined manner in which the girls bore the blows of the cudgel over their heads was particularly applauded.
When he broke one cudgel on his enemies, by his powerful arm, the town's people were ready to hand him another.
Seizing the huge cudgelwhich he kept to beat off the wolves, he shook it murderously at his companion.
Simon crouched in the darkest angle, and he gripped in his hand that same knotted cudgel which the dead theologian had once raised against him.
Nay, my lord, he call'd you Jack, and said he would cudgel you.
He griped the cudgel in his right hand, and struck the dancers with might and main, just as the old man had done.
Each of the dancers drew from under his robe a cudgel as stout and stouter than the one the young man himself held, and, without a word, fell upon him and began to beat and drub him until the dust flew.
Now, he had not noticed that when the old man struck the three dancers he had held the cudgel in his left hand, for he was not wise enough to know that great differences come from little matters.
Then the old graybeard gripped the cudgel in his hand.
Then I must ask Master Crabtree Cudgel to lesson you.
On reaching a field which belongs to a neighbouring village they lay down the figure, cudgel it soundly, and scatter the fragments over the field.
Such wretches in bidding against each other may have pleaded as a reason for giving them the preference that they really deserved for their crimes to die a slow and painful death under the cudgel of the executioner.
And having made him tie a noose to his neck he commands him to strangle him, or to knock him on the head with a great cudgel and kill him.
The god, in anger, retorts that if that punishment has no fears for him, a fustigation by the farmer with the self-same mentule used as a cudgel may have a more deterrent effect.
And as he spoke he struck the horse so violent a blow with a stout oaken cudgel with which he was provided, that the animal became unmanageable, and dashed across the downs to some distance with his rider.
One blow from his cudgel stretched the knight on the sod, and liberated Nizza Macascree, who instantly flew to her preserver.
He shall not want it then," replied Leonard contemptuously; "neither shall he lack a second application of my cudgel when we meet.
Their presence shall not prevent me from making my cudgel and your shoulders acquainted, if you do not budge," replied the apprentice, sturdily.
He had no weapon about him, having left his cudgel in the shop, but he doubled his fists, and, nerved by passion, felt he had the force of a Hercules in his arm.
The Fox who touches the beer-cudgel of the President in a Beer-commers.
He must exert all his skill to protect his combatant as much as possible, without holding his second-cudgel so as to prevent the blows of the antagonist reaching him.
Sarah was so angry when she heard this insult that she flashed a signal with her eyes to the spirit, and the latter plied his cudgel lustily about the king's head and shoulders, making the monarch break out in most unkingly howls of pain.
This time the cudgel of the spirit invisible to Pharaoh did not strike him: it came down gently and rested lightly on the king's out-stretched arm.
That will not I," answered Jack quietly, while he picked up a stout cudgel from the ground.
I was also advised to put on a belt and carry a short cudgel or bludgeon in it, for, as Jack truly remarked, the sling would be of little use if we should chance to come to close quarters with any wild animal.
There was one old penguin, however, that began to walk slowly towards the sea; and Peterkin took it into his head that he would try to interrupt its progress, so he ran between it and the sea and brandished his cudgel in its face.
