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The old corporal was seized, and after undergoing sundry kicks and cuffs, and cudgelings, which are generally given impromptu by the mob in Spain, as a foretaste of the after penalties of the law, he was loaded with irons, and conducted to the city prison; while his comrades were permitted to proceed with the convoy, after it had been well rummaged, to the Alhambra.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Many cudgelings fell upon him, making him stagger under their blows.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897
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