Cudgeling

He must fight singly to morrow with Hector, and is so prophetically proud of an heroycall cudgeling, that he raves in saying nothing. ❋ Unknown (1609)

Forest-master Urich would often say in jest to his boys, 'Come now, and get your cudgeling, which is to serve you for the day.'" ❋ George Lang (N/A)

Water boarding is preferable to a cruel cudgeling by memoirs dripping with bovine merda. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

And so we went on, I sick with fear for him, and cudgeling my brains to keep up the conversation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

ALL that day I lay in the dungeon cudgeling my brains for the reason of this new and inexplicable punishment. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Instead people put on their militant armor and start cudgeling folks over the head. ❋ Unknown (2009)

King had to stop him, not that he feared trouble, for they did not seem to resent either abuse or cudgeling in the least -- and that in itself was food for thought; but broken shoulders are no use for carrying loads. ❋ Dj Barber (2010)

The piece ends with Winerip cudgeling legalization activist Ethan Nadelmann (who -- gasp -- has a PhD from Harvard!) into admitting that he still, at ripe middle age, smokes pot -- and has even done so in the presence of children ... [pause for reader to make a call to protective services]. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The policy has been useless as a tool for cudgeling Castro, and it is hindering opportunities for American industries from travel to banking to agriculture, which is why there's no shortage of U.S. business groups lobbying to ease it. ❋ Unknown (2008)

With the state's economy struggling, wise money would avoid cudgeling a sector that has grown to more than 440,000 small businesses statewide. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But by dint of inventing chimeras, weaving romances, and cudgeling his brains, he hit at last upon one of the hopeful stratagems that are sure to occur to your mind if you persevere long enough, a stratagem which must make clear to the most inexperienced woman that here was a man who took a fervent interest in her. ❋ Unknown (2007)

NBC's Olympic broadcast could probably use the cross-marketing boost: media analysts already are wondering whether the games will succumb to the ratings cudgeling of American Idol, the gold-medal winner from News Corp.'s Fox. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Stop cudgeling your brains for hidden meanings, guys! ❋ Unknown (2004)

Hell, he deserved a cudgeling for allowing the sight of her to distract him. ❋ Melanie George (2003)

It prompted Americans to step back and critically appraise their highly undeveloped political system, provoking in the country a fear that spitting and cudgeling would become the congressional norm, that parties would continue to infest the republic, and that the country would collapse under their weight. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Eyewitness representatives reacted to Griswold's cudgeling on February 15 in an intensely partisan manner. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Doubtless it was cudgeling those wits for some new way of dealing with her, now that its first lunge had failed. ❋ Green, Roland (1993)