cudgel

I will cut you a cudgel when we are outside.

And since I made no move, she herself took up the cudgel.

Whether other women will take up the cudgels remains to be seen.

In short order the media took up the cudgel - Who's to say?

She would not take up the cudgels of such a battle.

It is right now that we need to take up the cudgels for Europe.

You're good with that staff or a cudgel, and I can trust you.

I shall make a point of taking up the cudgels in the House.

He looked about the group, as though expecting some other person to take up the cudgels.

She was determined not to lay down the cudgels just yet.

He, however, caused them to be beat to death with cudgels.

So why did he take up the cudgel on that?"

His eyes dropped to the cudgel that he'd taken to keeping close by him.

In their hands were cudgels which they used to good purpose on the two who opposed them.

By all accounts, he did it with style and a cudgel.

He looked like a butler, and had picked up a cudgel.

Perhaps, after all, I am taking up the cudgels against you rather prematurely.

I'll get out the metaphorical cudgels and let myself have it.

"The state has a cudgel in its hands that you use to hit just once, but on the head.

That night he resolved to "take up the cudgels" himself.

I liked his taking up the cudgels for the children."

He had spent the bullets in his gun, and was using it as a cudgel.

For now, they are more often political cudgels, almost always existing on the fringe.

Their first act had been to take his cudgel.

He was on his feet at once, his cudgel in hand.

But it's hard to cudgel the poor coach for this.

Norton asked, trying to cudgel his mind for the right questions.

Before I could cudgel another question out of my head, he was below, hand-springing across the back yard.

You're sure you couldn't cudgel your brains to my advantage?"

I heard the door of the chamber opposite, where the sheriff lay, open twice, now you ask me to cudgel my memory.

Let them cudgel their brains over that one.

First, she would have to cudgel her reeling brain into a semblance of orderly thinking.

I have seen him break men's arms, and cudgel them down with hammer blows from his fists."

He frowned in sudden thought, trying to cudgel his fogged and fevered brain into action.

All I was doing was looking at records of vanished cultures left by earlier observers and trying to cudgel new meanings.

Think, Jim, cudgel the old brain cells.

Now he had to cudgel his reluctant muscles to perform, inflicting the torture of exertion on himself.

Indy-car racing may soon cudgel itself, too.

Nay, my lord, he call'd you Jack and said he would cudgel you.

'Sblood, an he were here, I would cudgel him like a dog if he would say so.

Whether he still had a hangover from the previous night, or was endeavouring to cudgel the few brains he had, remained uncertain.

Pausing to cudgel his memory, Lovett said, "She knows I'm headed for the tropics?"

Ay, or I'll cudgel him, and make him cry 'O!'

The Earl of Nottingham threatened to cudgel Stukley.

'I'll cudgel my brains.

He didn't get the chance to cudgel his brains over exactly how many years it was, because the PA system brayed, "Major O'Doull!

The hostess tells Hal that Falstaff claimed Hal owed him 1000 pounds and threatened repeatedly to cudgel him if he said the ring was worthless.

Far more irritating is the mother at the ice skating rink, holding up a long line of patrons while she tries to cudgel the manager into putting her 7-year-old in an advanced class.

The mentors of the Windy City Bulls and the Auburn Hills Pistons have repaired to their separate rooms in order to cudgel their brains like never before this season.