Which preposition to use with cudgelled

for Occurrences 12%

British capitalists, on the other hand, determined to maintain what they hold, forgetful of how it had been obtained, were thus compelled to take up the cudgels for their own sakes; and here, as in Germany, the workers are the tools used to save their fortunes and conserve their rights.

in Occurrences 9%

Forthwith Beltane paused, and presently beheld one that sat by the waysidea man who crouched 'neath a dusty cloak and kept his white head down-bent and who now reached out a hand to grope and grope for the staff that lay near; wherefore Beltane took hold upon this hand and raised the white-haired traveller, and thereafter put the cudgel in his grasp.

on Occurrences 4%

Gesmas uttered frightful cries, therefore the executioner finished him off by three heavy blows of a cudgel on his chest.

of Occurrences 4%

"Thou art right, good fellow," said he presently, "truly, my sword is no match for that cudgel of thine.

with Occurrences 3%

"Now come I, forsooth, from good Banbury Town," said the jolly Tinker, "and no one nigh Nottinghamnor Sherwood either, an that be the mark can hold cudgel with my grip.

from Occurrences 2%

" Another variation, given by Moor in his "Suffolk Words" (p. 465), is this: "Three things by beating better prove: A nut, an ass, a woman; The cudgel from their back remove,

out Occurrences 2%

Under the greenwood tree sat Robin Hood; on one side was Will Scarlet, lying at full length upon his back, gazing up into the clear sky, with hands clasped behind his head; upon the other side sat Little John, fashioning a cudgel out of a stout crab-tree limb; elsewhere upon the grass sat or lay many others of the band.

against Occurrences 2%

And because I would not take up this ridiculous challenge, he tells the world I cannot argue: but he may as well infer, that a Catholic cannot fast, because he will not take up the cudgels against Mrs James, to confute the Protestant religion.

at Occurrences 2%

The other swung his cudgel at the back of his head, just below the edge of the steel cap, and laid him prone.

under Occurrences 2%

Nay, they must not only be obeyed, fed, and defended, but admired too; and that their lay-followers do sincerely, as a shirtless fellow with a cudgel under his arm doth a face-wringing ballad-singer, a water-bearer on the floor of a playhouse, a wide-mouthed poet that speaks nothing but blathers and bombast.

into Occurrences 1%

Cle. I understand that thou'rt an impudent fellow, Whom I must cudgel into better manners.

across Occurrences 1%

went the Miller's cudgel across their backs, and at every blow great white clouds of flour rose in the air from their jackets and went drifting down the breeze.

about Occurrences 1%

Robin looked after them, laughing, and thought that never had he seen so fleet a runner as the Lame man; but neither of the beggars stopped nor turned around, for each felt in his mind the wind of Robin's cudgel about his ears.

like Occurrences 1%

" "And thou," quoth the stranger, laughing, "takest thy cudgeling like a brave heart and a stout yeoman.

to Occurrences 1%

This, and being early disgusted with a Calvinistic Scotch school, where I was cudgelled to church for the first ten years of my life, afflicted me with this malady; for, after all, it is, I believe, a disease of the mind, as much as other kinds of hypochondria.

Which preposition to use with  cudgelled