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Either side is cudgelling its brains day and night to spring some new trick on the other.

From My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form by Palmer, Frederick

When a gentleman is cudgelling his brain to find any rhyme for sorrow, besides borrow and to-morrow, his woes are nearer at an end than he thinks for.

From The History of Pendennis by Thackeray, William Makepeace

"Sir George is cudgelling his brain to show his gratitude to you," said Power.

From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Lever, Charles James