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Meanings of knout in English
Usage of knout in English
1
Russian serfs record their despotism, cowering at the memory of the knout.
2
The torture which was applied to Thekelavitaw was scourging with a knout.
3
Ah, this beautiful Countess Eleonore shall be made acquainted with the knout!
4
The knout-theknout-andthat attended with public exposure in the market-place.
5
Chancellor Bestuchef, in the year 1756, was forced to confession by the knout.
6
But the terrors of the knout and Siberia are ever present before them.
7
She had the heavy whip-theknout-appliedto the bared backs of earnest reformers.
8
And raising the knout he struck Ogareff a sharp blow across the face.
9
The Jews were lashed with a double knout, a military and a civil.
10
He will receive a hundred and one blows of the knout.
11
And then he lashed me over the back with his knout.
12
It was not inhumanity, but fear of the knout that hurried him away.
13
Lettres-de-cachet, the knout, and cabinet-orders, superseding all right, are become law!
14
The knout greeted in Russia the first indulgence, and death followed the second offence.
15
Torture in a public school is as much licensed as the knout in Russia.
16
Then he swings the knout anew, with the same accuracy and the same result.
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