How To Use Cudgel In A Sentence

Avoid cruel and violent people, as they tend to take up cudgels with you on non-issues.
I cudgelled my brains to find some possible explanation. Sex Dungeon for Sale!
In 1974, Jimmy Connors, a strutting young braggart who used his racket like a cudgel, bludgeoned his way to the final of Wimbledon.
And as he continued to stare at her hat and think, the hurt he had received passed away, and he found himself cudgelling his brains for some way out of the muddle -- for some method by which she could remain on Berande. Chapter 13
I wish you had run all risks, and cudgelled the old burgomaster, stadholder, or whatever else he may be, soundly. The Purcell Papers

Not one man but two armed with cudgels have spotted us from the High Street and are sprinting toward the footpath. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
Maliseet, which open with the obtaining of a gold-dropping horse from an old man because of kindness, the loss of it at an inn at the bands of a rascally landlord, and the recovery of the animal through the generous use of a magic cudgel. Filipino Popular Tales
Barack is running circles around an old cudgeller who can’t remember what he says. Aims of Democrats Reach Beyond the Oval Office - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
In the 1980s Jacques Kerchache, a former dealer, collector and connoisseur of primitive art, took up the cudgels again.
`To start with, cudgel your brain for anything in your father's past that might have brought Karnes to him. THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE PIRATE
Table-Be-Set, Gold-Donkey, and Cudgel-out-of-the-SackJacob and Wilhelm Grimm There was once upon a time a tailor who had three sons, and only one goat.
We are being cudgeled into agreeing to wars of aggression, to make first use of nuclear weapons and to put weapons in outer space.
The use of the concept of 'denialism' as a cudgel with which to beat anybody who questions global warming has become familiar.
`To start with, cudgel your brain for anything in your father's past that might have brought Karnes to him. THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE PIRATE
But the cudgel was wielded to get me back in line; it worked.
You rascal," said I, "a cudgelling was the upshot of your last. The Fool Errant
The piece ends with Winerip cudgeling legalization activist Ethan Nadelmann (who -- gasp -- has a PhD from Harvard!) into admitting that he still, at ripe middle age, smokes pot -- and has even done so in the presence of children ... [pause for reader to make a call to protective services]. Daniel Denvir: I, Pot Smoker
The civil law gave the husband the same, or a larger authority over his wife, allowing him, for some misdemeanors, _flagellis et Fustibus acriter verberare uxorem_ (to beat his wife severely with whips and cudgels); for others only _modicam castigationem adhibere_ (to administer moderate chastisement). History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
Instead of a burglar with a bag and maybe a cudgel or shotgun, they saw a small mound under the bedclothes.
At that moment, the cudgelling, multiplied by a hundred hands, became zealous, blows with the flat of the sword were mingled with it, it was a perfect storm of whips and clubs; the convicts bent before it, a hideous obedience was evoked by the torture, and all held their peace, darting glances like chained wolves. Les Miserables
I must mention, in passing, that there was a picture of him in the newspaper - and he does have a face, or wears an expression, that rather invites a cudgelling.
She was full six feet high, wore a man's great-coat over the rest of her dress, had in her hand a goodly sloethorn cudgel, and in all points of equipment, except her petticoats, seemed rather masculine than feminine. Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01
Physicality, violence, and apparent cruelty were part and parcel of popular recreations, exemplified in activities like cudgelling, cock throwing, and bull baiting.
I cudgelled my wits for some other objection, and hit on one that seemed unanswerable. THE NUMBERS
Still he was loth to depart, and, cudgelling his brains for a pretext, he set up a rambling discourse on River Plate weather. CHAPTER XXIX
I mumbled yes, indeed, so it would be; then I noticed that she was looking at me a trifle arch, and cudgelled my wits to think why - she couldn't be wanting to get off with me, not with Canning there - and then her last words sank in, my legs went weak, and I believe I absolutely said, "Hey? Fiancée
Two weeks had passed since Martin had seen him, and he vainly cudgelled his brains for some cause of offence. Chapter 33
As a pundit, he usually favored the shiv over the cudgel.
Seamen stepped forward, cutlasses and cudgels raised. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
ALL that day I lay in the dungeon cudgeling my brains for the reason of this new and inexplicable punishment. Chapter 3
The trade unions took up the cudgels for the 367 staff made redundant.
Louping and flinging on a crummock, [Leaping, cudgel] Robert Burns How To Know Him
As they poured out of cars, waving cudgels, swords, hammers and guns, the West Indians who were enjoying the sunshine fled for cover.
The temple guards cudgel him even before he has been judged.
With the state's economy struggling, wise money would avoid cudgeling a sector that has grown to more than 440,000 small businesses statewide. New Jersey on the Chesapeake
Reason governs the wise man a cudgels the fool.
Whereas the ‘cudgel’ was, as stated, for learning the use of the backsword / broadsword.
This he took for a favour, and so laid down the cudgels, that is to say, the pen; I say, he took if for a favour, and a mighty one it was, if he had known all. Moll Flanders
Charley cudgelled his brains continually, but for once his imagination failed him. THE SIEGE OF THE 'LANCASHIRE QUEEN'
J does not normally feature in words of Old English origin, the digraph dg representing the sound medially and finally (cudgel, bridge), but some j words (ajar, jowl) may be of Germanic origin.
The muledrivers with their cudgels made short work of the pair, and Don Quijote and his faithful squire soon joined Rocinante on the ground.
In 1974, Jimmy Connors, a strutting young braggart who used his racket like a cudgel, bludgeoned his way to the final of Wimbledon.
On the floor of the Senate, Orrin Hatch of Utah took up the cudgels to berate the president about the Gospels. Clay Farris Naff: Jesus Concerned About The Poor? You Must Be Joking, Says The Christian Right
Ah my dear little enemy of the T. R, D., what were the cudgels in YOUR little billet-doux compared to those noble New York shillelaghs? Roundabout Papers
And so Max flagellated us with the purist's cudgel, but just as often, I suspect, he wielded it stringently at himself. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
_Lodovico discovereth to Madam Beatrice the love he beareth her, whereupon she sendeth Egano her husband into the garden, in her own favour, and lieth meanwhile with Lodovico, who, presently arising, goeth and cudgelleth Egano in the garden_ 344 The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
And so we went on, I sick with fear for him, and cudgeling my brains to keep up the conversation. An Adventure in the Upper Sea
If a patent has been primarily a shield - to protect an inventor's discovery from exploitation by others - lately it has become just as much a cudgel.
`To start with, cudgel your brain for anything in your father's past that might have brought Karnes to him. THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE PIRATE
Dogs, cutlasses, stones and cudgels, licensed firearms, if available, everything that's readily at hand should be brought to bear on the situation in defence of a neighbour under criminal attack.
Still the two most traditional English weapons are fists and cudgels and frankly if I had to fight somebody and was given the choice of Scout knife or cudgel, I'd take the stick! Scouts Ban Knives in Great Britain
The trade unions took up the cudgels for the 367 staff made redundant.
He was cudgelling his brains to keep the conversation going. THE HOBO AND THE FAIRY
And so Max flagellated us with the purist's cudgel, but just as often, I suspect, he wielded it stringently at himself. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
The notion that peace demonstrators had arrived at a demonstration tooled-up with cudgels and swords seemed improbable to practically everyone bar the time.
Just as noise trumps silence and rage trumps courtesy, the cudgel of lawsuits to silence or cower the opposition trumps free debate.
Although famous and infamous before her Nobel, this one-woman cudgel has been embraced rather gingerly.
That was the question, of course, and I'd been cudgelling my wits for an answer - and in a heaven-sent flash it came to me, the perfect excuse that might also be my salvation, if only I played it properly; the one thing that might turn this selfish lunatic from his fatal resolve. THE NUMBERS
Virgil's lines are as a shepherd's staff, for cudgeling foes or correcting friends.
This question he has asked me every day since the first day Mr. Pike began cudgelling his brains over it. CHAPTER L
Water boarding is preferable to a cruel cudgeling by memoirs dripping with bovine merda. Swine Flu Threat To Police Officers. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Rose and I had cudgelled our brains for wording that would mean nothing to anyone but her, in case the note fell into the wrong hands. Fiancée
I traced the sound of dripping water past a shelf case stacked with thick wooden cudgels and a full row devoted to big butcher-type knives.
He started to his feet and grasped his cudgel; but the next moment he fell back into his seat, trembling violently, and with the countenance of death itself.
Phutatorius, who was somewhat of a cholerick spirit, was just going to snatch the cudgels out of Didius’s hands, in order to bemaul Yorick to some purpose — and that the desperate monosyllable Z ... ds was the exordium to an oration, which, as they judged from the sample, presaged but a rough kind of handling of him; so that my uncle Toby’s good-nature felt a pang for what The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Neil followed her to the beach, waving his cudgel in the air. RUSHING TO PARADISE
Five of us, and a dozen of them, with cudgels and daggers, and two archers among them.
Reason governs the wise man a cudgels the fool.
And so Max flagellated us with the purist's cudgel, but just as often, I suspect, he wielded it stringently at himself. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Forest-master Urich would often say in jest to his boys, 'Come now, and get your cudgeling, which is to serve you for the day.' Pixy's Holiday Journey
You must know, my lady, dis precious mixture was de great secret - de arcanum mirificabile - of dat wonderful Arabian physician Hamech, which Paracelsus went mad wid cudgelling his prains to find out; and Avicenna and Galen and Trismegistus and Moderatus Columella all proke down in deir search to discover de meaning of de learned worts in which Hamech wrote de signification. Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
Edna nodded carelessly, though inwardly anxious and cudgelling her brains for something to turn the conversation. Amateur Night
The policy has been useless as a tool for cudgeling Castro, and it is hindering opportunities for American industries from travel to banking to agriculture, which is why there's no shortage of U.S. business groups lobbying to ease it. Matt Cooper: Dump the Cuban Embargo
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. The King of the Greeks
Bluetooth takes its name from Harald Blatand, the 10th-century Danish king who cudgeled neighboring Viking chieftains into unifying Denmark and Norway.
He cudgelled his brains in an effort to remember such a man out of all the East Falls men he had known. THE PRODIGAL FATHER
The fact that we get along at all with out cudgelling each other to death is one of life's minor miracles.
The god, in anger, retorts that if that punishment has no fears for him, a fustigation by the farmer with the self-same mentule used as a cudgel may have a more deterrent effect. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
The muscular man carried a sturdy blackthorn cudgel in the field when supervising the emergency men.
Our boats bristled with cudgels, axes, knives, and machetes.
He didn't actually call for Colless's head but he did embroider the story with enough venom for his followers to take up the cudgel.
Reason governs the wise man a cudgels the fool.
So lifting up the Cudgell, he gave him therewith halfe a score good bastinadoes, laying them on soundly, both on his armes and shoulders: and Egano feeling the smart of them, durst not speake one Worde, but fled away from him so fast as hee could, Anichino still following, and multiplying many other injurious speeches against him, with the Epithites of Strumpet, lustfull and insatiate The Decameron
She was full six feet high, wore a man’s great-coat over the rest of her dress, had in her hand a goodly sloethorn cudgel, and in all points of equipment, except her petticoats, seemed rather masculine than feminine. Guy Mannering
A couched spear of acuminated granite rested by him while at his feet reposed a savage animal of the canine tribe whose stertorous gasps announced that he was sunk in uneasy slumber, a supposition confirmed by hoarse growls and spasmodic movements which his master repressed from time to time by tranquilising blows of a mighty cudgel rudely fashioned out of paleolithic stone. Ulysses
He first declared a state of rebellion in May 2001 after his opponent's supporters, armed with cudgels and sticks, attempted to come close to the presidential palace.
Severe flogging with the bamboo, rattan, cudgel, and knotted whip successively, is one of the most usual means of extorting confession; and when death results from the process, the magistrate reports that the criminal has died of sickness, and in the few cases in which there may be reason to dread investigation, the administration of a bribe to the deceased man's friends insures silence. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
A stout, heavy stick, usually thicker at one end, suitable for use a weapon a cudgel.
In the 1980s Jacques Kerchache, a former dealer, collector and connoisseur of primitive art, took up the cudgels again.
Instead people put on their militant armor and start cudgeling folks over the head. It’s Star … Ms. Sapphire if you’re nasty | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
Monkey wielded his cudgel and hit Ne Zha from Behind . Ne Zha was forced to withdraw.
Suddenly I was jumping, yelling out as the flagstone beat my feet like a cudgel or stone cricket bat.
`To start with, cudgel your brain for anything in your father's past that might have brought Karnes to him. THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE PIRATE
A gang of men - armed with hockey sticks and cudgels - rammed a white Transit van through the shutters of a warehouse on the outskirts of Heathrow Airport, said a Scotland Yard spokesman.
Our boats bristled with cudgels, axes, knives, and machetes.
Sadly, as with many good things, doom cryers scurried up from their disgruntled burrows, saw people having a good time, and cudgeled the party.
Good for us brain-cudgelling fans ... though that probably means no more official announcements but a last big one when casting is complete. Lena Headey cast as Cersei
But here, language is an opponent to be cudgelled. The Comedy of Errors; Salome; Lift: Life Streaming
'Tis said that he is no drunkard, nor cudgeler, nor dallier with women, nor a liar, and that he is besides possessed of much property and very rich. First Love (Little Blue Book #1195) And Other Fascinating Stories of Spanish Life
Neil followed her to the beach, waving his cudgel in the air. RUSHING TO PARADISE
Grim-faced shepherds swing heavy cudgels, anxious to be clear of the road where horns blare impatiently.
Swords rose from scabbards and cudgels from belts. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
He must fight singly to morrow with Hector, and is so prophetically proud of an heroycall cudgeling, that he raves in saying nothing. The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida (1609 Edition)
The rest of you in Congress, put down your cudgels of sincerity and declare a cease-fire with the public.
The vicious movement had caused him to drop his makeshift cudgel in fear a moment before his life was taken.
He fought on with it, though it made a poor cudgel, long and misbalanced and awkwardly curved as it was. Cold Mountain
Seven armed men jumped out, four carrying cudgels, two with spears, and one holding a bow.
He was extremely polite to his opponents and often took up cudgels for them too.
And all the time, deliriously happy, talking in the gentlest and most delicate terms that might not offend her sensitive ears, I was cudgelling my brains in an effort to divine what I was expected to do. Chapter 18
Khan was among a mob wielding cudgels, swords, hammers and guns who attacked a group of West Indians in what was described as a premeditated and racially motivated attack.
They cudgel him and force him to confess to his iniquities.
Neil followed her to the beach, waving his cudgel in the air. RUSHING TO PARADISE
An assortment of rifles, pistols, dirks, daggers, and cudgels were quite literally dripping off their massive persons.
The barber cudgelled Sancho, and Sancho pommelled the barber; Don Don Quixote
He changed from the cudgel to the rapier, and achieved a rare mastery at it.
The language of moral universalism is widely and repeatedly invoked as a cudgel with which to condemn Western policies, especially as they concern countries in the so-called “Third World” (and often justifiably so). Matthew Yglesias » Hate Speech in South Africa
Nobody can say that the abominable misconduct of Maulincour -- who is a hopeless "cad" -- is too much punished, though an Englishman may think that Dr. Johnson's receipt of three or four footmen with cudgels, applied repeatedly and unsparingly, would have been better than elaborately prepared accidents and duels, which were too honorable for The Thirteen
Neil followed her to the beach, waving his cudgel in the air. RUSHING TO PARADISE
In other words, at the same time the anti-abortionist killers were afoot, (remember them?), we were using the concept of freedom as a public relations cudgel over other nations. Discourse.net: Textbook Takedown
Stones were attached to walking sticks to form cudgels.
Death was meted out to the man who had drawn the lot by the other nine men of his decury, who were required to beat him to death with their cudgels. Fortune's Favorites
The Government was wielding a rapier, not a cudgel, and wanted to concentrate on the clear and pressing dangers.
The blasts cudgeled the black ship, smashing it back and forth like a ball tossed between hands as the shields sputtered, flaming and flickering in tortured protest.
King had to stop him, not that he feared trouble, for they did not seem to resent either abuse or cudgeling in the least -- and that in itself was food for thought; but broken shoulders are no use for carrying loads. In The Time Of Light
And so Max flagellated us with the purist's cudgel, but just as often, I suspect, he wielded it stringently at himself. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Rose suddenly inspected me and then Parti, as if he preferred the crack to be with cudgels; but in a second the little blaze vanished, and he only stripped a weigelia branch of every blossom. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860

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