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nouna whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire

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The idea of the barbaric Tartar whip and Czarist knout in The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes (1911) recurs in The Magic Mountain (1924) when the liberal Settembrini, referring to the notorious prison in St.
Wolves of the steppes, snow, vodka, the knout, Shlusselburg, Holy Russia.
(98) In 1856 Westgarth relished the thought that 'Holy Willie's Prayer', 'The Address to the Unco Guid' and 'The Holy Fair' had descended on religious hypocrites like a 'Russian knout wielded by a practised hand'.
For shoppers who are not familiar with the store's knout, die pet section is clearly delineated with a bright.
You might even knout a little bit about them, which makes the vetting process easier.
The historiography of Russia seems nearly held together by themes and threads of violence, suffering, and the knout. One thinks of the bloody fratricidal struggles of the Kievan princes, the atrocious violence of the Mongol hordes, the sadistic tortures perpetrated by Ivan the Terrible, the casual profligacy with which Peter the Great spent labourer's lives in the construction of his new capital, and other examples.
Postan (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1965), 706-800; Arcadius Kahan, The Plow, the Hammer and the Knout: An Economic History of Eighteenth-Century Russia (Chicago: U.
Joe said Emma Goldman told people she became an anarchist after she saw a peasant beaten with the knout, when she was a girl in Russia.
Still, for weeks I didn't knout this person's true identity, and for a while I was unable to verify many details I was being told about allegedly illegal marketing activities for an HIV medicine.
Upon completion of the Polish campaign in 1939, for instance (in which he had served as a staff officer in a Light Panzer Division), he described the Poles as 'an unbelievable rabble' of 'Jews and mongrels' who were 'only comfortable under the knout'.
Frappe toujours, comme si tu donnais le knout. Les duchesses sont dures [...] et c'est oeuvre de charite que de les frapper.
In spite of the unceasing efforts of those who happen to be in authority to conceal this and attribute some other significance to it, authority has always meant for man the cord, the chain with which he is bound and fettered, or the knout with which he is to be flogged, or the ax with which he is to have hands, ears, nose, or head cut off, or at the very least, the threat of these terrors.
"Licensors from overseas should knouT it's worthwhile to have their films screened here." he says, noting that this way Munich can keep refusing to pay license fees.
The congregation is too large for most members to knout each other, much less be involved with each other in face-to-face ways.