It is a singularity of the Russian laws that the number of blows decreed for the knout is always uneven.
The bureaucratic and military intelligence of Prussia, combined with the knout of the Czar of St. Petersburg, are going to assure peace and public order for at least fifty years on the whole continent of Europe.
He was beaten with the knout, and later, when the knout sores healed over, he was driven with other convicts to Siberia.
When they whipped me with the knout I felt better than now that I am looking at you.
The old knout was much better; for it was made of strong leather straps, intertwined with wire.
I fear, governor,” said Beck “that even the new knout or the pleti would meet with invincible opposition in Germany.
Mental faculties, save such as are inseparable from animal instinct, had lain dormant; moral perception was limited between the knout on one side, and gross superstition on the other.
It appears that on that day, the heir to the throne was brought before a court composed of nine men of the highest rank in Russia and that he was beaten with a knout to secure further confessions, and that he expired under the torture.
The plet and the knout were made for such as they!
We would give half a year's income in golden gulden for a good lusty heir to the Principalities--with that foul Muscovite Ivan yearning to lay the knout across our backs!
If the barbarous Muscovite punishments began in Courtland, it would end in all of them being made slaves, liable at any moment to knout and plet.
Whereas fifteen blows with the knoutwere equal to a capital sentence, one of the Streltsi was put to the torture seven times and received in all ninety-nine blows, yet confessed nothing.
A tipsy man had thirty lashes with the knout for committing the like offence.
Lieven, seeing me pass the room where he was, said to his neighbour, who was Count Poniatowsky, "There is a woman for whom a fellow might take some blows of the knout without complaining.
Then he threw down his knout and grovelled at the Tsar's feet, begging forgiveness.
The man with the embroidery wanted to give me the knout because I asked for you by the name of Petka," said Boris, feeling that there was more in all this than he had quite understood.
He was punished with the knout and condemned in 1774 to hard labour at Irkutzk.
The Czar Alexis put him and forty of his adherents into prison; but neither the knout nor the rack could wring from them the mysteries of their faith and worship.
The knoutcontinued to flay their bodies, but their blood no longer flowed--they were dead!
Then he swings theknout anew, with the same accuracy and the same result.
Moreover, princes and generals, and even respectable ladies, were scourged with the knout at the command of the emperor.
The knout whistles as it whirls through the air, the noble blood flows in streams.
But her arm was too weak to wield the knout instead of the sceptre over this people of slaves, her heart too soft to judge with inexorable severity according to the barbarous Russian laws which, never pardoning, always condemn and flay.
Will you swear to that, or shall I work the knoutin order to bring out the truth?
The wretch with the knout grinned, and made some insulting remarks, which his fellow-brutes appeared to enjoy very much.
The grinning rascal raised his knout to strike her, when young Barnwell, mad with indignation, leaped into the arena.
These preparations being completed, the brutal executioner flourishes the knoutround his head, and with tremendous force it descends on the back of the victim, horribly lacerating the flesh.
The knout had traced three blue furrows on Gregory's shoulders.
Rather death than be slaves, kissing under the knout the hand of our executioners!
Under Russian oppression, under the knout and the gallows, she will learn to be more serious, more persevering, and more wise.
For the non-privileged classes the knout or the lash supplemented nearly all punishments of a criminal kind.
The true translation of which, as we assure the unlearned reader, is--"Nor must you pursue with the horrid knout of Christopher that man who merits only a switching.
At sunrise, feeling stiff and dispirited, he was again taken before the officer, and again put through an interrogatory, a trooper standing at his elbow holding a knout ostentatiously in his view.
Bob expected the knout to be immediately applied to his back, but to his surprise he was led out into the open, and after a period of suspense he was ordered to mount a horse that was brought up.
He was not surprised, for if they trusted to the efficacy of the knoutin their own army and navy, it was unlikely that they would spare it in the case of Korean peasants.
