Use "knout" in a sentence

1. So the Tatars have taught us, and they left us the knout as a remembrance of it

2. He feels himself on firm ground, and has no particular hatred for the knout, when once it has been administered to him

3. Aksénov was sentenced to be beaten with the knout, and to be sent to hard labour

4. He was beaten with the knout, and later, when the knout sores healed over, he was driven with other convicts to Siberia

5. "Iván Dmítrievich, forgive me! When they whipped me with the knout I felt better than now that I am looking at you

6. If a Roman, or a man of the Middle Ages, or a Russian, such a man as I can remember fifty years ago, believed implicitly that the existing violence of authority was needed to save him from evil,—that taxes, duties, serfdom, prisons, the lash, the knout, galleys, executions, military conscription, and wars were unavoidable,—it would be difficult to find a man at the present time who believes that all the violences committed saves a single man from evil; on the contrary, not one could be found who had not a distinct assurance that most of the violations to which he is subjected, and in which he himself participates, are in themselves a great and unprofitable calamity

7. Petersburg, where instruments of torture, such as chains, and models of prison-cells for solitary confinement,—means of torture worse than the knout or the rod,—were on exhibition, sympathetic ladies and gentlemen went to see them, and seemed greatly entertained

8. 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