knout

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A few peasants, leaning out of their windows, were watching the scene; women were showing themselves at the loopholes of the garrets; and the innkeepers were filling the gourds, Corporal Knout watching them meanwhile.

From The Invasion of France in 1814 by Chatrian, Alexandre

The rule of Orthodoxy and the Knout Is not yet over wholly.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 15, 1891 by Various

He is proportionally stout; The lofty form is well filled out Of the Controller of the Knout.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

So light and delicate is the handling, that you might be charmed into the soft delusion, that you beheld Christopher with his Knout.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various

The gentler sort have either been scared by the improvisatore warblings of Mr Wakley, or terrified into silence by undue and undeserved apprehensions of the Knout.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various