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Cudgelling was at one time used as the remedy in cases of outrageous libel and pasquinade.

From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Hogg, James

Cudgelling his brains to try to recall where he 181had met the man, Roy passed through the hotel lobby and out into the street.

From The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship by Burnham, Margaret

Cudgelling her brains, she remembered the doctors, and the suppers after the theatre.

From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)