She therefore resumed her seat again in a sullen mood, and Mr. Bindloose was cudgelling his brains for some argument which might bring the old lady to reason, when his attention was drawn by a noise in the passage.
On this Signor Pasquale determined to put an end to the thing himself, and promised Michele a good sum of money if he would fall upon the singers and give them a good cudgelling on the first opportunity.
Michele's cudgelling had such an effect on him that he fell into a fever.
It needed no cudgelling of my brains to guess who it might be; for once and again that day while we worked I had marked the fellow's evil eye on Ludar.
Which said, he resumed his cudgelling of the mule, and laid about him on this side and on that to such purpose that he started him; and so the honours of the day rested with the muleteer.
I had finished The Three Clerks just before I left England, and when in Florence was cudgelling my brain for a new plot.
He had known all day that something was coming, and had been cudgelling his brains finely.
As soon as what he had beencudgelling his brains to find a way of saying had thus been said for him, Shelton experienced a sense of disapproval.
But to the donkey they gave of the grass to eat, which restored her natural form, only that her beauty was marred by the cudgelling she had received.
Then he put the panniers on her back and drove her all over the town, constantly cudgelling her till she sank under the blows.
For at that moment Dorothy came back to inquire why I was not gone to the cudgelling at the Three Hats.
He's in Number Seven," said Mr. McAvoy, who was cudgelling his brains.
I have met many women who needed cudgelling before they would walk, but never one that was piebald.
She was piebald," said I gravely, "and needed cudgelling before she would walk.
I waited, straining my ears to hear the little stairway creak behind the door at my back, and cudgelling my brains to think what I should do.
To make the scene brief, a cudgelling match ensued.
Have you forgotten cudgelling Skogan, the rhymer, at the Court Gate?
This question he has asked me every day since the first day Mr. Pike began cudgelling his brains over it.
Still he was loth to depart, and, cudgelling his brains for a pretext, he set up a rambling discourse on River Plate weather.
An inexplicable phenomenon, which, however, he had kept to himself, and ever since been cudgelling his brains to account for.
Thus appealed to, the gaol-governor stood for a time silent, evidently cudgelling his brains.
Nevertheless he must submit to use and wont, and patiently wait to see whether the philanthropist in the Castle was disposed that night for cudgelling a guest, or would choose rather to assign him a couch under the open canopy.
In return for the cudgelling he would place you and your fortune in the hands of a man who would bring misery upon you and ruin on your fortune.
The first is revenge for the wholesome cudgelling which the captain bestowed upon him.
I would fail utterly in this rambling anatomy if I did not insist that Don Marquis regards his column not merely as a soapslide but rather as a cudgelling ground for sham and hypocrisy.
We played the game entirely in German, and I can still see Ingo's intent little face bent over my preposterous drawings, cudgelling his quick and happy little brain to spot the word before the hangman could finish his grim task.
All crazy people work that way, building castles in the air just as you do, cudgelling their brains with bosh and nonsense, imagining that they are doing something of importance when it is really nothing at all.
Every time I think of it, I feel more inclined to give that fool of an Alvar a good cudgelling for finding fault with Don Rodrigo because he put this splendid little fellow into a litter.
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