knout

Example Sentences

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Moscow's long-suffering moviegoers glowed vindictively: the managers of the city's neighborhood moviehouses were at last writhing under the official knout.

From Time Magazine Archive

The feat for which the National Committee commended him proved him to be a very knout and bastinado.

From Time Magazine Archive

The new, obnoxiously corporate-modeled, self-franchising Guggenheim may run on laptops, but what it really needs is an editorial pencil -- if not a knout.

From Time Magazine Archive

Can anyone estimate the effect upon a single human being to have known that a father, brother, son, sister, or wife has perished under the knout?

From A Short History of Russia by Parmele, Mary Platt

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."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various