We suspect that but few dignitaries of the past ever received so sound a 'knouting' as did that 'accursed Jew' Josephus, at his hands; nor do Grotius and Dr. Parr fare much better. ❋ Various (N/A)
Russias, this wicked enemy of the human race, has succeeded in raising his hideous flag on Port Arthur, and planting his iron heel and cloven hoof on the heathen Chinese -- filthy, degenerate creatures, who, it must be admitted, are fitting companions for the tallow-eating, 'knouting' barbarian. " ❋ Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald (1879)
He was the brute who'd nearly put paid to me in Russia - a gotch-eyed, freezing ghoul of a man who'd dragged me halfway to China in chains, and threatened me with exposure in a cage and knouting to death, and like pleasantries. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He was the brute who'd nearly put paid to me in Russia — a gotch-eyed, freezing ghoul of a man who'd dragged me halfway to China in chains, and threatened me with exposure in a cage and knouting to death, and like pleasantries. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1975)
Here he encountered Zora Vola, the girl whose knouting he had witnessed and resented. ❋ Allan Arnold (N/A)
Knitting instead of knouting is the order of the day. ❋ Christopher Morley (1923)
And now N. Romanoff himself is gone to Siberia, and there is no knouting or giving in knoutage; no pogroms or ukases or any other check on the ladies. ❋ Christopher Morley (1923)
Our village was once famous also as the dwelling place of an eminent parson, who obtained a million signatures for a petition to N. Romanoff, asking the abolition of knouting of women in Siberia. ❋ Christopher Morley (1923)
The Cossacks, at the command of the "good Czar" are celebrating a bloody feast -- knouting, shooting, clubbing people to death, dragging great masses to prisons and into exile, and it is not the fault of that vicious idiot on the throne, nor that of his advisors, ❋ Various (1904)
If word of the plot reached the Pacific, they might expect knouting, perhaps mutilation, or lifelong, hopeless servitude in the chain-gangs of the mines. ❋ Unknown (1903)
When they built a fort of their own outside, he set himself to tantalize the two Danes, Bering and Spanberg, knouting their men, sending coureurs with false accusations against Bering to St. Petersburg, actually countermanding their orders for supplies from the Cossacks. ❋ Unknown (1903)
Barely had the vessel rounded the southern cape of the peninsula into the Pacific, when Ismyloff, the young Russian trader, who had been carried on board in irons, rallied round Benyowsky such a clamor of mutineers, duels were fought on the quarter-deck, the malcontents clapped in handcuffs again, and the ringleaders tied to the masts, where knouting enough was laid on to make them sue for peace. ❋ Unknown (1903)
She always went down under that blow with pitiful surrender, showing the woman suddenly, as if under a physical knouting. ❋ Unknown (1898)
Val or give a knouting to the tenants on my Tarrytown estates or do ❋ O. Henry (1886)
Empress by the grace of God, as all are princes and kings by the grace of God! The people were running to and fro in the wildest confusion in the streets of St. Petersburg; they cried and shouted _vivas_ to their empress who to-day accorded to them the splendid spectacle of the knouting of some respectable ladies and gentlemen! ❋ Nathaniel Greene (1843)
The only thing that ever broke the monotony of existence was the prevalence of cholera, or the governor essaying some loftier flight of tyranny than usual by hanging up a score of defaulters to the revenue, or knouting a bevy of ladies whose tongues outran their prudence. ❋ Various (1841)
It was some days after this nocturnal decision that the knouting had taken place at which our readers have assisted. ❋ Alexandre Dumas P��re (1836)
Talk of knouting indeed! which we did at the beginning of this paper in the mere playfulness of our hearts -- and which the great master of the knout, ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)
