The knout is a terrible i fli6tion ufed in this country. From Wordnik.com. [A new moral system of geography] Reference
You peasants are getting too saucy since you ceased to be serfs, and the knout is the best school for you to learn politics in. From Wordnik.com. [Vera or, The Nihilists] Reference
When Jason Philip came back from the inn, he said: “To believe that people can be ruled without the knout is a fatal delusion.”. From Wordnik.com. [Gänsemännchen. English] Reference
"knout" partakes a good deal of this same character of suffering. From Wordnik.com. [Oak Openings] Reference
He said that one of his purposes in staying in town, was to 'knout' me every day ” didn't he?. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett]
But they round whom the Russian's knout thongs coil. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 16, 1891] Reference
Sangarre, close to him, said one word, “The knout!”. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Strogoff] Reference
They had died -- of fever, in the mines, under the knout. From Wordnik.com. [Lost Face] Reference
“You shall have a taste of the knout at the next stage.”. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Strogoff] Reference
I see the mark of the knout which I gave you, traitor and coward!. From Wordnik.com. [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference
“Egbo floggings” of the utmost severity, equalling the knout. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference
And raising the knout he struck Ogareff a sharp blow across the face. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Strogoff] Reference
Mutilation, flagellation, and the abundant use of the knout prevailed. From Wordnik.com. [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference
And the stripes upon his prison clothes shall lash you like the knout!. From Wordnik.com. [Abortion and sympathy, men and women] Reference
At that precise moment, Catchflea appeared, a knout of wood in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Riverwind the Plainsman]
I used to like to think it wasn't true that the muzhiks crave the knout. From Wordnik.com. [Time's Person of the Year.] Reference
Tatars have taught us, and they left us the knout as a remembrance of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
Alexis himself, after being punished with the knout, was sentenced to die. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Russia] Reference
Servants who failed to keep the house front clean were punished with the knout. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Russia] Reference
He gave himself up to justice, received the knout and was transported for life. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
They took Ivan, tried him, sentenced him to the knout, and then to hard labour. From Wordnik.com. [A Desperate Character] Reference
"Ivan Ogareff!" and raising the knout, he struck Ogareff a blow across the face. From Wordnik.com. [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference
Siberia, made to serve in the wars of tyrants, or bleed under the murderous knout?. From Wordnik.com. [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference
“But his Imperial Majesty said four millions, and I shall get the knout unless —”. From Wordnik.com. [Novels by Eminent Hands] Reference
The knout greeted in Russia the first indulgence, and death followed the second offence. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference
The driver forced his way into the front ranks and began to lay about him with his knout. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Keep silence -- and the knout, the mines, the slow torturing death of Siberia, awaits them all. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of a Turkish Bath] Reference
Not a boy in the school but had watched his clothes cut to ribbons before them, under the knout. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
The grinning rascal raised his knout to strike her, when young Barnwell, mad with indignation, leaped into the arena. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Nihilist or, Young America in Russia] Reference
The wretch with the knout grinned, and made some insulting remarks, which his fellow-brutes appeared to enjoy very much. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Nihilist or, Young America in Russia] Reference
Yet all this did not efface the cruel stripes left by the knout, or efface from his heart the wrong and misery he had endured. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Nihilist or, Young America in Russia] Reference
Strike and keep on striking as if you were giving her the knout. From Wordnik.com. [The Duchesse De Langeais] Reference
It was not inhumanity, but fear of the knout that hurried him away. From Wordnik.com. [Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home] Reference
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