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How to use knout in a sentence

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They also want to issue hard-currency bonds to domestic savers an odd idea, seeing that nothing short of the knout is likely, in the present chaos, to induce Russians to lend their remaining dollars to the state.
The Russian knout, consisting of a number of dried and hardened thongs of rawhide interwoven with wire the wires often being hooked and sharpened so that they tore the flesh was even more painful and deadly.
He was determined to help establish liberal values and institutions — civil society, free speech, democratic norms — in a land that, for a thousand years, had known only absolutism, empire, and the knout.
Clinging to their traditional trust in the efficiency of the knout, people shrugged their shoulders, and said that there would probably be a few scuffles, but that the demonstrators would be easily dispersed.
Torture in a public school is as much licensed as the knout in Russia.
Examples from Classical Literature
Some were beheaded after undergoing the punishment of the knout or battocks.
A tipsy man had thirty lashes with the knout for committing the like offence.
Chancellor Bestuchef, in the year 1756, was forced to confession by the knout.
Will you swear to that, or shall I work the knout in order to bring out the truth?
This Jacob had been condemned to the bastinade, or knout, by Schein, the Russian general.
I would have had it out of you with the knout then, my excellent friend.
These young fellows nowadays want someone standing over them with a knout all the time.
I believe that he keeps a little private knout at home for his wife and children.
For shoppers who are not familiar with the store's knout, die pet section is clearly delineated with a bright.
Then he swings the knout anew, with the same accuracy and the same result.
Strike and keep on striking as if you were giving her the knout.
It was not inhumanity, but fear of the knout that hurried him away.
Wolves of the steppes, snow, vodka, the knout, Shlusselburg, Holy Russia.
The drivers disputed as to whose troyka should go ahead, and the youngest, seating himself sideways with a dashing air, swung his long knout and shouted to the horses.
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