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He tells me that near our house, a little farther up the mountain, he has discovered a fencing-gallery: that till nightfall he had been engaged in a fencing-bout against Japanese, who fought with two-handed swords, springing like cats, as is the custom of their country. With his French method of fencing, he had given them a good drubbing.
He wounded me with the platter, true, but I too have given him such a sound drubbing that his own mother could not recognize him. Fear nothing! Be at your ease. Not even one crow shall be lost at Bogdaniec!" "I see you are upright people. Do you promise me?" "We promise!" both exclaimed. "Upon your knightly honor?" "Upon knightly honor." "And upon your escutcheon?"
And the green wood fire, now finally left to itself, was still emitting its funereal wreaths of dense black smoke, which drifted in the gentle breeze over the unsleeping farmhouse, obscuring the early stars in the heavens above. "A drubbing!" Weiss at last replied, "God grant it may be so!"
Then the captain of the Chateau, thinking there was something hidden beneath this affair, went to the fountain some days afterwards, and, seeing the phantom, he threatened it with a sound drubbing if it did not declare what it was. The phantom immediately said, "Ah, M. de Lastera, do me no harm; I am poor old Philipinette."
"It was the forester Kell, the shameless hound; but he would play him a trick for it." Ille. "Right. He owed the fellow a drubbing already himself, and now he would have a double one, if he could only get hold of him." Hic. "He would run and tell him that a great lord wanted to speak to him here in the forest." Ille."No, no; that would scarcely answer; but where did the fellow live?"
My landlord was likewise beginning his oration to Jones, but was presently interrupted by that generous youth, who shook him heartily by the hand, and assured him of entire forgiveness, saying, "If you are satisfied, my worthy friend, I promise you I am;" and indeed, in one sense, the landlord had the better reason to be satisfied; for he had received a bellyfull of drubbing, whereas Jones had scarce felt a single blow.
We were now exchanging broadsides yardarm to yardarm, but the drubbing they had already received seemed to dishearten the Frenchmen. Still they held out, showing a wonderful amount of pluck. They had sent men into the tops, armed with muskets, who were firing down on our deck, and had already wounded several of our officers.
To do him justice, he was, as far as his power went it was not very extensive kindly disposed towards the boy; perhaps, because it was his interest to be so; perhaps, because his wife disliked him. The flood of tears, however, left him no resource; so he at once gave him a drubbing, which satisfied even Mrs. Sowerberry herself, and rendered Mr.
As for Tom Jones, he does not come into comparison with "Perry" at all, and he would doubtless have been most willing and able competent physically as well as morally to administer the proper punishment to that young ruffian by drubbing him within an inch of his life.
Two to one is fearful odds against us, and we shall have the two other ships blazing away at our heads before long." "We haven't much to fear from them," said Jack. "I have just heard they're corvettes, and they won't be up to us until we've given the other two a drubbing, and have made sail again to the northward."
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