It was his successor who took up the cudgels and predicted the plaintiff's discomfiture.
Sue in this world to take up thecudgels of the honest and struggling artisan.
Back and forth swayed the fighters, their cudgels pounding this way and that, knocking off splinters and bark, and threatening direst damage to bone and muscle and skin.
Forthwith the two men spat on their hands, laid firm hold upon their cudgels and began slowly circling round each other, looking for an opening.
They took up thecudgels for that dig, Miss Langly.
If Ronny had not insisted on taking up the cudgels for her, she would have braved Leslie Cairns in the latter's room and fought her own fight for honor.
Most of them had lost their sticks, it being a usage in fights of this kind to twist the cudgels from the grasp of the beaten men, to prevent them from rallying.
Cudgels of all sorts and sizes (and some of them, to my own knowledge, great beauties) were provided.
I propose that we cut three stout cudgels or bludgeons before the light goes, and that we slip down to the boat the instant it is dark.
But the length of the cudgels proved an enormous advantage, and when to that was added the sudden appearance of Mulha, and the need for defending themselves in front and rear, it was not wonderful that the rascals aboard gave way.
You took up the cudgels on behalf of this lad Owen, and will like to see the matter through.
They are human beings, and I hesitate even to strike them with the cudgels which we have prepared.
Each section-assembly is composed of a dozen factious spirits, members of the club, who drive out honest people by displayingcudgels and bayonets.
Then happened something that awoke most of the class to the fact that they needed to get together, that they must, after all, take up cudgels for themselves.
Of course, there was no real reason for Ruth to take up cudgels for her odd classmate.
What Ravidus[158] is here, to take up thecudgels against my iambics?
Backed by the Consumers' League, it had again taken up the cudgels for the store employees, demanding that they receive pay for overtime during the celebration and winning a partial victory.
So insistent was its thirst for information that the "Banner" and the "Telegram" took up the cudgels for the public-spirited corporation which paid ten per cent dividends by overcharging the local public.
Despite the sympathetic attitude expressed after the riot by the other newspaper men, he had not counted upon the unanimous vigor with which the local press took up the cudgels for the "Clarion.
A customer was a customer and Mrs. Northover had far too much experience to take up the cudgels for her friend over the way.
You needn't take up the cudgels for your father, Dan," interposed Miss Ironsyde.
We sat ourselves down on the mossy carpet, with our cudgels close to our hands, and then, bethinking us of the custom of setting watches on board ship, we determined that one of us should watch while the other slept.
We clutched our cudgels and sat very close to each other, and Billy whispered that he felt a cold shiver running down his back, as I myself did, but I forbore to tell him so.
He has but recently come out of gaol and found solicitors in Australia and here to take up the cudgels for him.
Both young men grasped their sturdy cudgels and rushed on.
Confound you, why don't you take good cudgels and settle it?
Chet Belding would take up cudgels for his sister in a minute; and Chet would, Purt was sure, thrash him most soundly!
Shack Beggs and Toby also scrambled erect, holding theircudgels behind them prepared for work.
Now they grasped their cudgels tightly in their hands and looked at each other.
Four stalwart young men, wild and dishevelled of aspect, armed with stout cudgels and bows and arrows, had set upon two travellers, whose clothes denoted them to be men of substance.
She was determined not to lay down the cudgels just yet.
At this Lucy forthwith took up the cudgels for the empire.
Their exercise was generally either to engage in combats between chosen pairs, or, dividing into two parties, to fight line against line with blunted poles for spears and with stout cudgels for axes.
I know very well you would not hear anyone speak ill of me without taking up the cudgels for me.
I must cudgel my brain a bit and try to think if there is not some way of keeping my back or my face out of reach of cudgels or claws.
Ragna flushed guiltily, but loyally took up the cudgelsin her friend's defence.
I took up the cudgels for America He listened gloomily, leaving my arguments unanswered.
With a great display of reading and repeatedly interrupting each other they took up the cudgels for the "good old school.
And I don't believe Gertrude wants you to take up the cudgels for her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cudgels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
