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Even the adventurer upon the road threatened his victim with a bludgeon, nor was it until the breath of the Renaissance had vivified the world that a gentleman and an artist could face the traveller with a courteous demand for his purse. But the age which witnessed the enterprise of Drake and the triumph of Shakespeare knew also the prowess of the highwayman and the dexterity of the cutpurse.
He was so kind-hearted and so polite. "He'll be great company for us back in the Emerald City," whispered the Cowardly Lion as the Knight went off to get Dorothy a drink from a little spring. "That is, if he forgets this grammercy, bludgeon stuff." "I think it sounds lovely," said Dorothy, "and he's remembering more of it all the time. But I wonder why there are no people here.
Duels were frequent, cudgellings not uncommon, although as yet the Senate-Chamber had not been selected as the fittest scene for the use of the bludgeon. It is true that molasses-and-water was the beverage allowed by Congress in those simple times, and that charged to stationery. What terrible fellows our ancestors were for calling names, particularly the gentlemen of the press!
O'Ryan was a huge brute of a man, his great hard face bearing the scars of battles against pistol, knife, bludgeon and fist. He was a sour and savage brute, hated and feared by everyone for his tyrannies over the helpless poor and the helpless outcast class.
Once he returned from New Orleans, whither he had gone to sell his cotton, with the story that he had been knocked senseless and robbed of his wallet, and in proof of this he produced a newspaper account of the midnight outrage, and exhibited a wound on the head, inflicted by the bludgeon of the footpad.
Then, talking all the way downstairs, she trundled off, in angry, honest, forgiving anxiety for her niece's welfare. Eleanor, planning for the little sunny room, felt bruised by that bludgeon word which, as it happened, was not accurate, for Maurice, by this time, had gained a maturity of thought and patience that put him practically out of boyhood.
From this speech I conclude it was he who gave me the blow with the bludgeon, when I was first secured. As he said this, he raised his bludgeon; with which kind of weapon they were all three armed, and had locked the door after them. There was no remedy, and I obeyed.
First went a gaudy neckcloth, with collars turned down; then a pair of spurs vanished; and lastly a diabolical instrument that he called a cane but which, by means of a running bullet, could serve as a bludgeon at one end, and concealed a dagger in the other subsided into the ordinary walking-stick adapted to our peaceable metropolis.
The judge's panoply was pierced at last. "They tried to prove, as you will remember, that it was John who thus disfigured the bludgeon he always carried with pride. But the argument was a sorry one and in itself would have broken down the prosecution had he been a man of better repute. Now, those few chips taken from the handle of this weapon will carry a different significance.
The battle was over unless the beast considered me fair prey, too. I waited, ready for him with knife and bludgeon also filched from a dead foeman; but he paid no attention to me, falling to work instead to devour one of the corpses. The beast bad been handicapped but little by his splinted leg; but having eaten he lay down and commenced to gnaw at the bandage.
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