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Definition of the day : « knout »

  • As in whip : noun length of material for hitting
Example sentences :
  • It was not inhumanity, but fear of the knout that hurried him away.
  • Extract from : « Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home » by Bayard Taylor
  • Chancellor Bestuchef, in the year 1756, was forced to confession by the knout.
  • Extract from : « The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck » by Baron Trenck
  • Will you swear to that, or shall I work the knout in order to bring out the truth?
  • Extract from : « The Boy Nihilist » by Allan Arnold
  • Then he swings the knout anew, with the same accuracy and the same result.
  • Extract from : « The Daughter of an Empress » by Louise Muhlbach
  • The knout—the knout—and that attended with public exposure in the market-place.
  • Extract from : « The Pacha of Many Tales » by Frederick Marryat
  • Some were beheaded after undergoing the punishment of the knout or battocks.
  • Extract from : « The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia » by Voltaire
  • He holds in both hands the instrument of punishment—the knout.
  • Extract from : « The Shadow of the Czar » by John R. Carling
  • Strike and keep on striking as if you were giving her the knout.
  • Extract from : « The Duchesse de Langeais » by Honore de Balzac
  • A tipsy man had thirty lashes with the knout for committing the like offence.
  • Extract from : « The Story of Moscow » by Wirt Gerrare
  • I would have had it out of you with the knout then, my excellent friend.
  • Extract from : « The Intriguers » by William Le Queux