" "We do not use the knout in the Russian prisons nowadays," he said briefly.

Therein were embodied the best processes known to his land and time: for discovering crime, torture and trial by battle; for punishing crime, the knout and death.

The famous knout (whip) is carried by the Cossacks at the end of a strap across the left shoulder.

While the Kaiser was sending peaceful telegrams to Petrograd and Vienna, the Press was full of horrible pictures of Cossack barbarism and the dread terrors of the Russian knout, both of whichthe public was led to believewere about to strike Germany.

"Whatever our opponents have done to us, at this moment we all feel the duty to fight against Russian knout-rule.

Not in vain have Germany's educational institutions inculcated the belief in her population that the British Empire is an effete monstrosity with feet of clay; France a rotten, decaying empire, and Russia a barbarian Power with no new Kultur to offer Europe except the knout.

The epithet was like a knout cutting through the decayed fibre of the man and raising a livid welt on his diseased soul.

They therefore had him conducted before the assembly of the grand desterham, who condemned him to the knout, and to spend the rest of his days in Siberia.

All that one saw on the surface were, on the one hand, an irresponsible bureaucracy using the knout, the secret agent, the pogrom, and Siberia for the suppression of anything suspected of threatening existing conditions; and, on the other, a band of devoted reformers and revolutionaries risking all in the cause of political liberty, and dying, the "Marseillaise" on their lips, with the fortitude of Christian martyrs.

whip, bullwhip, lash, strap, thong, cowhide, knout; cat, cat o'nine tails; rope's end.

Every word uttered by her ladyship stung like the knotted cords of a knout.

They have abolished the knout and exile to Siberia.

The knout was applied to the prisoner, and at the hundredth stroke he gave the whole conspiracy away.

The knout greeted in Russia the first indulgence, and death followed the second offence.

Therein were embodied the best processes known to his land and time: for discovering crime, torture and trial by battle; for punishing crime, the knout and death.

It is true that even the Cossacks forgot the strict discipline which had been commanded them, and entered the houses, robbing and compelling the inhabitants, by blows of the knout, to give them all they wanted.

He had a habit of standing over you in class, holding your paper like a knout.

Cruel shame, but I daren't say this aloud, in case anyone should understand just that amount of English, and thenwhoopski!the knout and Siberia!

A favourite pastime was to visit the torture-chamber and gloat over the sufferings of the victims of the knout and the strappado; or to attend (and frequently to officiate at) public executions.

Evidence was forced from the nuns by the lashing of the knout, so severe that some of them died under it.

It was simply my imagination that had painted it, and they laughed at me and said it was held together by the lashes of the knout, and when those went Russia would go too.