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  • "Two hundred _chicotte_," cried Meeus, and like the echo of his words came the first dull, coughing blow.

    The Pools of Silence 1907

  • One wonders what those sentimental people would say -- those sentimental people who cry out if a burly ruffian is ordered twenty strokes with the cat -- could they see a hundred _chicotte_ administered with a whip that is flexible as india-rubber, hard as steel.

    The Pools of Silence 1907

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