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Updated: June 13, 2025
It was said that one envoy cudgelled the lords of his train whenever they soiled or lost any part of their finery, and that another had with difficulty been prevented from putting his son to death for the crime of shaving and dressing after the French fashion.
The stick still reigned in the Prussian army, and while cudgelling discipline into the soldier, they cudgelled ambition and self-reliance out of him.
All that the three before him could ever afterward recollect and for several years afterward they cudgelled their brains pretty thoroughly about that moment was that Whispering Smith took hold of the left lapel of his coat to take the tobacco out of the breast pocket.
"If poor little Judie had something to keep her busy all the time, she wouldn't be so miserable." And so he cudgelled his brains to invent some plan or other by which to set Judie at work and keep her at it all the time.
Lancelot thanked him for us both in well-chosen words, such as I should never have found if I had cudgelled my brains for a fortnight. Then we wrung Mr. Davies's hands again, and he wished us God-speed, and we came out again into the open street, where the day had now well darkened down.
"I don't mind learning the piano," said Pollyooly with a sigh. "Yes; but if you showed that you didn't know anything about it, it would look very suspicious indeed," said the duke; and he frowned deeply as he cudgelled his brains for a way out of this unexpected difficulty. "I expect it would," said Pollyooly.
"We don't dare turn these fellows loose, even if we disarm them. They'll have a crowd after us in two minutes." Still, keeping the men covered, he cudgelled his brain for the means of disposing of them. "I have it. We must disarm them, tie them up and set 'em adrift. Do you mind getting out into the water? It's ankle deep, that's all. I'll keep them covered while you take their guns."
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."
"Razetta was soundly cudgelled last night and thrown into a canal." "Has he been killed?" "No; but I am glad of it for your sake, for his death would make your position much more serious. You are accused of having done it." "I am very glad people think me guilty; it is something of a revenge, but it will be rather difficult to bring it home to me." "Very difficult!
The longer Verty pondered, the less he understood; or at least he understood no better than before, which amounted precisely to no understanding at all. He got through his day after a very poor fashion; and, going along under the evening skies, cudgelled his brains, for the thousandth time, for some explanation of this extraordinary circumstance.
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