However, all six cudgeled their brains to invent striking names.
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The officer was violently cudgeled down in the midst of the rioters.
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At tampes, the mayor who promulgates the law is cudgeled to death.
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In vain Jack cudgeled his brains for a solution to the mystery.
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Cassio cudgeled Roderigo, who ran into the presence of Montano, the ex-governor.
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He cudgeled his brains to invent some reasonable excuse for bidding her farewell.
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She cudgeled her brains too for new decorative schemes for his paper-work.
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Mullen, batting for Pipp, cudgeled the ball to left, and Baker and Gedeon counted.
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He cudgeled his brains as to what answer he could make to the Emperor.
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But for all of that, the breakthrough wouldn't come, however hard I cudgeled my brains.
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I slackened my pace, and cudgeled my brain, as the saying is, for some moments.
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Why should I cudgel my brains with your new music when I have cudgeled them cruelly with the old?
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Bluetooth takes its name from Harald Blatand, the 10th-century Danish king who cudgeled neighboring Viking chieftains into unifying Denmark and Norway.
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We also live at a time when alarming numbers of protected animals are being shot in the head, cudgeled to death or worse.
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Sadly, as with many good things, doom cryers scurried up from their disgruntled burrows, saw people having a good time, and cudgeled the party.
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We are being cudgeled into agreeing to wars of aggression, to make first use of nuclear weapons and to put weapons in outer space.
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The blasts cudgeled the black ship, smashing it back and forth like a ball tossed between hands as the shields sputtered, flaming and flickering in tortured protest.
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Aurelian spared Antiochus, but razed Palmyra. The most valuable monuments were taken by the emperor to decorate his Temple of Sol, while buildings were smashed, people were clubbed and cudgeled and Palmyra's holiest temple pillaged.
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So, I cudgeled my brains, and also my hair, for one last 2012 thought, and came up with the idea that, as wonderful as our Cartoon Caption Contest is, it wouldn't be complete unless it had a theme song.
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AllMusic critic Amy Hanson said that "Black Metallic" "could probably be counted in the ranks of ballad -- albeit one with a droning guitar and a subsonic wailing that cudgeled the listener over the head, at the same time as caressing them to ecstasy," and noted, "With a deeply textured guitar drone and wallop to lead the way, and backed by a forcefully lazy drum beat, Rob Dickinson's vocals, which he renders quite tender here, play beautifully off the noise behind in an ebb and flow which drains to nothing by the end of the song -- a seven- minute epic".
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In the military of ancient Rome, fustuarium (Greek ξυλοκοπία, xylokopia.) or fustuarium supplicium ("the punishment of cudgeling") was a severe form of military discipline in which a soldier was cudgeled to death. It is described by the Greek historian PolybiusPolybius 6.37–39. in a passage observing that Roman soldiers were motivated to stand fast and maintain their posts by the fear of harsh punishments such as public disgrace, flogging, and death. As a form of discipline imposed on a soldier, fustuarium thus reflected Roman doubts that courage alone was sufficient to ensure the steadfastness of the average soldier—an awareness that Julius Caesar shows in his war commentaries.
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The review then states: > The violence which liberal critics found so offensive has survived intact. > Aldrich sets up dispensable characters with no past and no future, as Marvin > reprieves a bunch of death row prisoners, forges them into a tough fighting > unit, and leads them on a suicide mission into Nazi France. Apart from the > values of team spirit, cudgeled by Marvin into his dropout group, Aldrich > appears to be against everything: anti-military, anti-Establishment, anti- > women, anti-religion, anti-culture, anti-life. Overriding such nihilism is > the super-crudity of Aldrich's energy and his humour, sufficiently cynical > to suggest that the whole thing is a game anyway, a spectacle that demands > an audience.
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