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Why should he have cudgeled his brains to fashion weapons and to contrive snares for the killing of game of which he was in no more need than his vegetarian cousins, the anthropoid apes?

From The Black Man's Place in South Africa by Nielsen, Peter

Why should I cudgel my brains with your new music when I have cudgeled them cruelly with the old?

From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various

Prithee, by what authority and with what reasons does he establish his hotch-potch about the angels, in his Celestial Hierarchy?—a book over which many curious and superstitious spirits have cudgeled their brains.

From Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Luther, Martin

Passepartout might have cudgeled his brain for a century without hitting upon the real object which the detective had in view.

From Around the World in 80 Days Junior Edition by Verne, Jules