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Dollars & Scents In Manhattan prominent artists cudgelled their imaginations for the perfect perfume bottle.

From Time Magazine Archive

He cudgelled his brains for some device by which a message might be conveyed in safety, and could only think of the sweeper.

From The Outcaste by Penny, F. E.

Kenneth went hot and cold; his brain seemed paralysed; and when the Uhlans reined up a few yards away he had cudgelled his wits in vain for something to say.

From A Hero of Li?ge by Strang, Herbert

And he cudgelled his brain for a subject at once safe and sympathetic, without finding one.

From Chippinge Borough by Weyman, Stanley J.

Harper cudgelled his still dazed brain, and finding none, shook his head.

From The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century by Heyer, Georgette