T'extort their truncheons from the puny hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Manor House] Reference
Dilo was bitten by a dog and beaten with truncheons by. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Guards with whips and truncheons lined up the prisoners. From Wordnik.com. [England Under Hitler]
From the tilting one saw many truncheons (2) flying hence. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
They're sort of truncheons, that are about four feet long. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2005] Reference
The police used dogs and rubber truncheons on the demonstrators. From Wordnik.com. [SELECTED STATEMENTS AND OTHER PRESS RELEASES, 1963-1983] Reference
Our hands creep towards the truncheons concealed in our trouser-legs. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 14, 1914] Reference
The first group had, you know, riot helmets and truncheons, but no arms. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2005] Reference
Three constables were poking at the cobblestones with their long truncheons. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Hawker]
Police swung truncheons and sticks, beating protesters until the crowd broke up. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
No one worries that security forces might descend upon them, truncheons flailing. From Wordnik.com. [Kiev's Victory Carnival] Reference
The white policeman and two black policemen then assaulted me with rubber truncheons. From Wordnik.com. [Children of Resistence] Reference
I saw them repeatedly beating protesters, including women, with sticks, with truncheons. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 20, 2009] Reference
He was then attacked in his apartment stairwell by assailants wielding rubber truncheons. From Wordnik.com. [The Capital Of Crime] Reference
The coalition of students and workers in France was beaten down by truncheons and tear gas. From Wordnik.com. [1968]
Enter first six Knighte Marshalls men in suitable liveries with links and truncheons two by two. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
After about 30 minutes, a truckload of riot police carrying truncheons chased the journalists away. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Assailants wielding rubber truncheons broke his nose, ribs and skull, but took no money or valuables. From Wordnik.com. [Will Putin Take On The Mob?] Reference
They were met with riot police and paramilitary militia, who struck at them with truncheons, tear gas, and guns. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
Management thugs streamed through the far entrance, and the workers grabbed impromptu truncheons heading for the lot. From Wordnik.com. [Money (January Challenge)] Reference
There are also widespread rumours on the street that Basij-like Arabic speakers are on the street wielding truncheons. From Wordnik.com. [Parvez Sharma: A Report From Inside as Tehran Twitters] Reference
But the officers, as well as posses of "deputised" white citizens, attacked the crowd, wielding truncheons, bats and boards. From Wordnik.com. [The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick] Reference
Both carried the long halberds that — along with the truncheons slung at their belts — were the only weapons of the Watch. From Wordnik.com. [The Outstretched Shadow] Reference
Those efforts were met with tanks, and truncheons, and arrests by secret police, but the violent would not have the final word. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2007] Reference
They showed up dressed in padded clothing, helmets and face visors, bearing clear plexiglass shields and armed with truncheons. From Wordnik.com. [stochastic Diary Entry] Reference
There was a front line of about 100 police in -- with riot helmets, shields, you know, those big plastic shields and truncheons. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2005] Reference
Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, lashing at protesters with long rubber truncheons and arresting 275, according to protest organisers. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
By the time it dawned on me I was being fired at, I'd grabbed him, and my mates pounced and reasoned with him with their truncheons. From Wordnik.com. [Frost at Christmas]
You will send blue-uniformed constables armed with rubber truncheons and automatic pistols, helmeted perhaps, and carrying carbines. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Hawker]
Jordanian security forces set upon demonstrators with dogs and truncheons and arrested journalists who tried to photograph the melee. From Wordnik.com. [Middle East: Inheriting The Storm] Reference
On Monday, Georgian police clashed with a few dozen protesters, beating them with truncheons and seizing some photographers 'cameras. From Wordnik.com. [Georgia Feels Pinch of Lower Investment] Reference
When that Rudeger's liegemen met the guests, many truncheons (6) were seen to fly on high from the warriors 'hands in knightly custom. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
There were a lot of Basij on the street, this armed militia, that go around in jeans, T-shirt, helmets, shields and batons, truncheons. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 20, 2009] Reference
The miners, still in their soiled work clothes and helmets, retaliated by lashing out at random with rubber truncheons, clubs and fists. From Wordnik.com. [Mob Rule In Romania] Reference
I was in the back of a group of fifty students and scurried out a window, along a narrow ledge, to get away from the flailing truncheons. From Wordnik.com. [Blake Fleetwood: 40 Years Ago Today, The Police Tried to Kill Me At Columbia University] Reference
Late Friday, dozens of riot police with truncheons and shields gathered at Suvarnabhumi airport, the country's largest, Reuters reported. From Wordnik.com. [Airport Shutdowns Disrupt Thailand's Economy] Reference
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