knout

How To Use knout In A Sentence

• He was persuaded to confess by 25 blows of the knout—a favourite Russian instrument of chastisement—on the first day, and 15 on the second.
• We should yerk the yokel of a Yankee with the knout.
• Naass swept the blanket from his shoulders, disclosing the gnarled and twisted flesh, marked with the unmistakable striations of the knout. An Odyssey of the North
• The men hold heavy, thick-ended knouts of ash; most of their sons carry whippy stems of hazel.
• The knout is a terrible i fli6tion ufed in this country. A new moral system of geography
• Hugo Haase told the French socialists that ‘what the Prussian boot means to you, the Russian knout means to us’.
• Had you called him indolent or useless he had smiled, but "daidlin ', thowless, feckless, fushionless wratch," drew blood at every stroke, like a Russian knout. Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush
• He said that one of his purposes in staying in town, was to 'knout' me every day ” didn't he? The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
• knout" partakes a good deal of this same character of suffering. Oak Openings
• ‘Sergei - Kap - please don't -’ I begged, but the sting of the knout against the skin of my back made me cry out in mid-plea.