102 examples of bludgeoning in sentences

They swish a bludgeon to try their hand.

In the night of September 14, 1485, one of the inquisitors, Pedro Arbues, covered as usual with a coat of mail under his robes, and wearing a steel skull-cap under his hatfor he was every moment conscious of guilt and apprehensive of retributiontook a lantern in one hand and a bludgeon in the other; and, like a sturdy soldier of his peculiar Church, walked from his house to the cathedral of that same Saragossa, to join in matins.

It is the cave-man in me, hiding by night, waiting with a bludgeon to slay.

This is the age of Money, and, therefore, an irreverent age; it is also the age of Respectability (with a very large R),and the policeman's bludgeon.

[U.S.], pyromaniac; anarchist, communist^, terrorist. savage, brute, ruffian, barbarian, semibarbarian^, caitiff, desperado; Apache^, hoodlum, hood, plug-ugly [U.S.], Red Skin, tough [U.S.]; Mohawk, Mo-hock, Mo-hawk; bludgeon man, bully, rough, hooligan, larrikin^, dangerous classes, ugly customer; thief &c 792. cockatrice, scorpion, hornet.

to the police who were bludgeoning an English mob, and "Quite wrong!"

to the police who were bludgeoning an Irish one, was a personal jibe which hit him hard.

The relation thus indicated is characteristic; Johnson was as a rough but helpful elder brother to poor Goldsmith, gave him advice, sympathy, and applause, and at times criticised him pretty sharply, or brought down his conversational bludgeon upon his sensitive friend.

The result was an ugly-looking bludgeon, a dangerous weapon when in the grasp of a strong man.

His flight led him toward the little girl, whom he must pass in order to make his escape, and as Colonel Thornton turned the corner of the path he saw a desperate-looking negro, clad in filthy rags, and carrying in his hand a murderous bludgeon, running toward the child, who, startled by the sound of footsteps, had turned and was looking toward the approaching man with wondering eyes.

The large bludgeon of the chief was carried before the tribe as a sign of his power over them.

He was far heavier, in bludgeoning, than Jeffrey; while Hazlitt epitomized his principles of criticism with his accustomed vigour:"He believes that modern literature should wear the fetters of classical antiquity; that truth is to be weighed in the scales of opinion and prejudice; that power is equivalent to right; that genius is dependent on rules; that taste and refinement of language consist in word-catching.

A rod, not an axe, nor a sword, nor a bludgeon, nor any other death-weaponhence, from the kind of instrument, no design to kill would be inferred; for intent to kill would hardly have taken a rod for its weapon.

It was a rod, not an axe, nor a sword, nor a bludgeon, nor any other death-weaponhence, from the kind of instrument, no design to kill would be inferred; for intent to kill would hardly have taken a rod for its weapon.

A rod, not an axe, nor a sword, nor a bludgeon, nor any other death-weaponhence, from the kind of instrument, no design to kill would be inferred; for intent to kill would hardly have taken a rod for its weapon.

A rod, not an axe, nor a sword, nor a bludgeon, nor any other death-weaponhence, from the kind of instrument, no design to kill would be inferred; for intent to kill would hardly have taken a rod for its weapon.

A compromise which embargoed the free laborer of the North and West, and clutched at the staff he leaned upon, to turn it into a bludgeon and fell him with its stroke.

Ay, you forget the head-battering bludgeon, the instantaneous pistol, or the cunning knife; none of all which would a man with a spark of courage in him use against an unarmed, defenceless traveller.

"Lamm, to beat soundly with a cudgel or bludgeon.

There was no subject, however remote from his knowledge or experience on which he would hesitate to pronounce, and if necessary bludgeon forth, his opinion.

Meanwhile he wanted her, and his hard and savage passion beat down opposition as if with a bludgeon.

She came uncertainly toward him, as though he had been some not implacable knave with a bludgeon.

Human bludgeon.

I felt as though I had been struck with a bludgeon.

Poor Hintze, frightened at the sight of the bludgeon the parson carried, flew at his legs, scratching and biting him, until the saintly man fainted.

102 examples of  bludgeoning  in sentences