Seeing an opening, I cudgelled my brains to think of any condition which, being fulfilled, might turn the table on him and place him in my power.
Even the despised andcudgelled ass had a share in his protection.
He was then on his way to join in a consoling pilgrimage to a certain image of Christ, which had been cudgelled by a grief-maddened priest whose dying mother the image had failed to heal.
She cudgelledher brains but was at a loss to find a plan.
She was not an ordinary working-woman, he saw that, and cudgelled his brains to find out how she came into the country at all.
Neither the Pyramid Doctor nor Pitichinaccio was seriously injured, but they had been so soundly cudgelled that they could neither move nor stir, and had to be carried home.
Capuzzi fell heavily to the ground and Pitichinaccio along with him, both raising a shrill piercing cry of distress and fear, like that of a whole troop of cudgelled asses.
He had cudgelled his brains to comprehend whence came these fits of terrible melancholy, and, judging Julien by himself, came to the conclusion that his ennui proceeded from an excess of strictness and good behavior.
But he did not know how to begin conversation, and the more he cudgelled his brains to find a way of opening the attack, the more he found himself at sea.
Vainly Lanyard cudgelled his wits for some plausible reading of this riddle.
Vainly Lanyard cudgelledhis wits to aid a laggard memory, haunted by a feeling that he ought to know this man instantly, even in so poor a light.
Had I cudgelled the cur soundly when he first bayed at me, the cowardly mongrel had been now crouching at my feet, instead of flying at my throat.
The night before he fled he slept on the floor of the church, and dreamed that St. Peter cudgelled him soundly for resolving to abandon his sacred charge.
The publican was angry with Symeon for breaking the amphora, and, catching the stick out of his hand, cudgelled the poor monk with it, without listening to his explanation.
For thousands of years man has cudgelledhis brain over this, and is as far from finding an answer to-day as he was on the first day.
At present, like the Catholics of Ireland and the Jews throughout the world, and such other cudgelled and heterodox people, they suffer all the moral and physical ills that can afflict humanity.
Willis, who so dexterously cudgelled kingly pericraniums, could make nothing of hers.
The macaronis are furious, and vow they will pelt Mr. Hagan, and have him cudgelled afterwards.
He had just cudgelled a stable-boy, was swearing at a groom, rubbing down his racehorse with his own hands, and superintending the preparation of a warm mash for his hack.
Let Strephon and Corydon be cudgelled without end, if the police can show any warrant for doing it But Addison was a man of great genius.
An ye mean this lad who hath so well cudgelled Black Dick," said Coulter, "I dare be sworn he is not a sneak to turn informer upon us.
The adherents of the ministers were victorious, put the adverse mob to the rout, and cudgelled Colt himself into a muddy ditch.
Then you must know," said the soldier, "that two servitors of the Cid are in love with a girl from Barbadillo, and they have fought and cudgelled each other as the result of a dispute as to which of them should have her.
That was my idea, and for several days I cudgelled my brain to find among my models one that would, physically and morally, represent all this.
Charley cudgelled his brains continually, but for once his imagination failed him.
And thereafter, and for many days, I cudgelled my brains trying to imagine some possible way by which two men, on an open stretch of water, could capture another who knew how to use a rifle and was never to be found without one.
Eli cudgelledhis brains how to bring about the meeting he desired.
He cudgelled his brains as to which was the best way to obtain money.
They had me down before I could say my prayers, and cudgelled me sorely, tearing my clothes, and they took away the packet of papers you gave me, sir.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cudgelled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
