| Pipes, though a little disconcerted, far from being disabled by the blow, in a trice retorted the compliment with his truncheon. |
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| She carries a small wooden truncheon tucked up her sleeve in case her customers turn violent. |
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| It tossed a foot-long wooden truncheon onto a table beside a flintlock pistol and flopped down into a chair, snarling all the while. |
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| The man with the truncheon was black, and wore a dark bobble hat and dark jacket. |
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| The constable paused to grab a heavy monkey wrench and he put it back down and pulled out the far shorter regulation truncheon. |
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| A charge of possession of a wooden truncheon as an offensive weapon on the A61 Leeds Road at Pannal on the same day was dropped. |
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| He took his truncheon ignoring my words and started beating me with it on my buttocks screaming with rage: « run, you better run ». |
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| One of the practices used in this prison is that of truncheon blows on the sole of one's feet, a point that is particularly sensitive to pain. |
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| If, in spite of everything, you miraculously make it to Greece, then you have a treat awaiting you: a truncheon massage. |
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| I have seen many women cry because their men were beaten, but this did not serve to stop the truncheon blows on their backs. |
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| Some time later he had stopped and searched the author's car, finding a truncheon and a pen-knife. |
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| The officer then beat both F. B. and his friend all over their bodies with a truncheon and bundled them into an official car. |
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| The Law also defines the means of coercion: separation, tying, truncheon, water hoses and chemical means. |
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| This weapon introduces better proportionality, as it mitigates between the use of a truncheon and a firearm. |
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| If I responded incorrectly, that is if I didn't say, 'yes,' they shocked me with the electric truncheon,' he said. |
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| These included repeated punchings, kickings, beatings with a baseball bat and truncheon, being urinated on and threatened with a syringe and blowtorch. |
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| The logic of their own arguments will lead the Green leaders to call for the police truncheon and harsher punishment against anti-nuclear activists. |
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| One driver was even found with a police truncheon in his car. |
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| Although practice varied between regions, apart from a period between 1884 and 1936, British police were allowed little more than a truncheon on routine patrol. |
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| The truncheon, or baton, is a military commander's sign of office. |
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| His face covered by a gas mask, carrying a truncheon, Goldberg contemplates the ironies of his transformation. |
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| From behind him there emerged a broad-chested guard with a long black truncheon in his hand. |
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| Fraser was looking at the flat, wet countryside and thinking about the French policeman who had banjaxed him with the truncheon. |
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| In 2004, restraints were used in 211 cases, 2 cases of which was use of a truncheon, 1 case of which was use of teargas and 5 cases of which was use of shields. |
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| It originally appeared to defend the community from all actors who would attack it, but it only defends itself with its 'chonta' or command truncheon, which gives the guard a symbolic value. |
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| The Committee received numerous allegations of police ill-treatment: mainly slaps, punches, kicks and blows with a truncheon, but also electric shocks and beating on the soles of the feet. |
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