Citations:club


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * With that Guilt, with a great club that was in his hand, struck Little-faith on the head, and with that blow felled him flat to the ground, where he lay bleeding as one that would bleed to death.


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * While I was thus looking on them, I perceived, by my perspective, two miserable wretches dragged from the boats, where, it seems, they were laid by, and were now brought out for the slaughter. I perceived one of them immediately fall; being knocked down, I suppose, with a club or wooden sword, for that was their way; and two or three others were at work immediately, cutting him open for their cookery, while the other victim was left standing by himself, till they should be ready for him.


 * 1915 — Edgar Lee Masters. Spoon River Anthology.
 * When the sun was low and the air was cool, / Stopping to club the walnut tree / Standing leafless against a flaming west.