I was incessantlycudgeling my brains for some "angel" who would come to my financial rescue The spell of my college aspirations was broken once for all.
I was constantly seeking information about the country and the opportunities it held out to a man of my type, and cudgeling my brains for some way of scraping together the formidable sum.
Jack only chuckled, knowing that his chum was going through the same old game of cudgeling his treacherous memory with the usual poor results as of yore.
The seven strolled away from camp and wandered about the grounds cudgeling their brains and calling themselves names for their stupidity.
Those plebes had been cudgeling their stupid heads ever since dinner time to no purpose.
Then they betook themselves to hurling crags at each other, cudgeling with huge oak-trees, and defying each other from one mountain-top to another.
Edouard was in despair, and Lampin was cudgeling his brains, swearing that they should not take him alive.
On the eleventh day after their arrival in Paris, Jacques and Sans-Souci were walking on the boulevard, always thinking of Adeline and cudgeling their brains to divine what could have become of her.
Thus his research becomes a cudgeling of the brain, an introspective speculation.
They hoped to find truth by cudgeling their brain.
It teaches that you must not search for understanding by cudgeling your brain, but only in connection with experience, with the interrelation of things.
