The warrior used a cudgel while fighting off the wild dogs. From LearnThat.org.
Note: 93 According to the OED, a cudgel is a "short thick stick used as a weapon; a club.". From Wordnik.com. [The Revelation of Jesus Christ] Reference
"Hill-bastards!" he howled at them, beating at them as if they were sheaves and his cudgel were a flail. From Wordnik.com. [King of the Khyber Rifles] Reference
But soon patriotism moved from a comfort to a cudgel. From Wordnik.com. [Time For A New Patriotism?] Reference
Nunn cut me a stout ironwood cudgel as a handy weapon. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
I hold out the bat, Samson's jawbone cudgel, in my left hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Measure Of A Man] Reference
"Why not?" inquired the young fireman calmly, grasping his cudgel with. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail] Reference
Besides, I had no need to cudgel my brains; I'd only to ask you plump. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
The cudgel and knife of folks I could not understand were coming on me!. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
And he said to David, "Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with a cudgel?". From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference
They were all over fifty; one was much older, and leaned feebly on a cudgel. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
He knew what a power for good a stout cudgel may prove under such conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference
The lists were appointed, and the man was allowed for his weapon a great cudgel. From Wordnik.com. [A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals] Reference
He cut a stout cudgel and proceeded to the old railroad bridge named in the note. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail] Reference
Baile Inneraora in the memory of the youngest lad out that early morning with a cudgel. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
But when the Republicans passed the Arizona Law (SB1070), they handed Democrats a cudgel. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Creamer: Nine Keys to Democratic Success in the Midterms] Reference
"Or this!" cried Red, whose cudgel was as long as a walking stick, and almost as thick through as his wrist. From Wordnik.com. [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference
And you, Dorsenne, would have been exposed to the cudgel like Monsieur de Voltaire, by some jealous lord. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
With that he picked up a rather stout cudgel which he swung a few times as if to accustom his arm to the motion. From Wordnik.com. [Afloat on the Flood] Reference
So, when the young man approached, Robin stepped out into the path to meet him with his trusty cudgel in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference
This allows Microsoft to learn of their future plans and provides a potential cudgel for Microsoft to bludgeon them. From Wordnik.com. [Antitrust And Common Sense] Reference
The higher classes have generally handsome pistols or great knives, the others content themselves with a good cudgel. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
But, instead of retreating, he grasped his cudgel more firmly, and cautiously parted the thick bushes in front of him. From Wordnik.com. ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference
Now conservatives may learn the lesson that they cannot use law as a cudgel for an agenda any more than should the left. From Wordnik.com. [More Thoughts on Proposition 8] Reference
Jimmie, by the way, was engaged in rapping the back of his captive's head with the stout little cudgel he had picked up. From Wordnik.com. [Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie] Reference
No one has picked up the cudgel to control or reverse those forces that have placed so many Americans in economic jeopardy. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Anderson: Where Are the Winners Now?] Reference
His gray-bearded father was dealt a blow on the head from a stout cudgel, and he lay upon the ground in the agonies of death. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
But while this has been an effective cudgel for Calderón's critics — who say his drug war has become a quagmire — they are wrong. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Game] Reference
Ultimately, when sensitivity becomes a cudgel against lawful expressions of speech or religious belief -- or disbelief -- we all lose. From Wordnik.com. [Is Nancy Pelosi Un-American?] Reference
Rather than tearing down the walls that shield the powerful, the medium is instead being used as a cudgel of self-preservation by Palin. From Wordnik.com. [Karl Frisch: Twitter and the Cowardice of Sarah Palin] Reference
The blow from Dennis 'cudgel had apparently rendered him insensible, and blood was flowing from a severe but not serious wound in his head. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
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