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  • The train driver was regrettably 'coshed' during the heist but such was the notoriety of this literally Grand Theft Train-o -- that when some seven years later the driver sadly passed on -- of leukemia (and not anything to do with the train heist) -- his family and the pompous British establishment still blamed the satanic Great Train Robbers for his death!

    Martin Lewis: The Great Train Robbery Explained -- By Peter Cook 2009

  • The train driver was regrettably 'coshed' during the heist but such was the notoriety of this literally

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

  • We have no hope of getting anything sensible done when protesters are forcibly corralled and coshed and select committees spend their time and expertise on reports only to find themselves ignored.

    MPs condemn coalition's bonfire of the quangos as botched 2011

  • They coshed the bluefish on the head to kill them as soon as they had time to do so, for Togger said the Lady frowned on hunters who let their prey suffer unnecessarily.

    Crown of Earth Hilari Bell 2009

  • They coshed the bluefish on the head to kill them as soon as they had time to do so, for Togger said the Lady frowned on hunters who let their prey suffer unnecessarily.

    Crown of Earth Hilari Bell 2009

  • The first few they questioned told them that, and they coshed them unconscious and dropped them over the side.

    Crown of Earth Hilari Bell 2009

  • The first few they questioned told them that, and they coshed them unconscious and dropped them over the side.

    Crown of Earth Hilari Bell 2009

  • The police moved in at 7 pm and “kettled” them, as they had done the otther demonstrators earlier, with one poor man aged 49 just passing by being coshed and having a heart attack and ignored by the police for too long.

    Did Costumes and Props Undercut the Seriousness of the G-20 Protests? - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

  • The police moved in at 7 pm and “kettled” them, as they had done the otther demonstrators earlier, with one poor man aged 49 just passing by being coshed and having a heart attack and ignored by the police for too long.

    Did Costumes and Props Undercut the Seriousness of the G-20 Protests? - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

  • Labour councils like Manchester and even Lib-Con ones like Leeds have been enabled to regenerate their cities without getting constantly coshed by Whitehall.

    The Art of the Putdown No 94 2007

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