In his delight he lifted up his voice and brayed, but then everyone knew him, and his owner came up and gave him a sound cudgelling for the fright he had caused.
For most of its history, diversity training has been pretty much a cudgel, pounding white men into submission with a mix of finger-wagging and guilt-mongering.
I just think that people lay it on kind of thick and use it as a cudgel when it really can be a place that's vibrant and historic and develops with the times. That's all I'm saying.
One of the begging brothers spat, and a woman gave a moan. " You are false knights, " said the big man with the star carved on his chest. Several others brandished their cudgels.
The drowned men began to slam their driftwood cudgels one against the other. " Damphair" ! they cried. " Damphair King! Aeron King! Give us Damphair" !