knout

Example Sentences

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Last week the two Western powers wielded economic knouts of their own.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their black conical caps and long beards, their great side-buttoned coats, and pockets stuffed with protrusive cartridges, their prancing horses, their leaded knouts, struck a blood-curdling discord amid the prayerful, white-wrapped figures.

From Ghetto Comedies by Zangwill, Israel

From the main street four mounted policemen flourishing their knouts came riding into the by-street directly at the crowd.

From Mother by Gorky, Maksim

And from this back uprose and fell immense spiked and fan-shaped ruffs, thickets of spikes, whipping knouts of bristling tentacles, fanged crests.

From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham

"Anima Vilis" is a novel dealing with life in Siberia as it really is, not as we have hitherto imagined it, a land of knouts, inhuman Russian officials, and sundry other horrors.

From A Woman's Burden by Hume, Fergus