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