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The answer, given at length, was tranquil, low, slowly and distinctly uttered, in a deliberate refusal, in a deliberate defiance. The dark and evil countenance above him grew livid with fury. "I can have you thrashed like a dog for that answer, and I will. But first listen here, beau sire! I know as well as though you had confessed to me. Your silence cannot shelter your great mistress' shame.
Mr. Barker was the identical cad who nobly distinguished himself, some time since, by keeping a tradesman on the step—the omnibus going at full speed all the time—till he had thrashed him to his entire satisfaction, and finally throwing him away, when he had quite done with him. Mr.
"One moment, Doctor Browne," said the General. "Here, you, sir; you don't like Frank Burr, do you?" "Well, sir, I " "Answer my question, sir. You don't like him, do you?" "N-no, sir." "Thrashed you well, didn't he, for bullying?" "I had an encounter with Burr junior, sir." "Yes, and he thrashed you well, I know." "I beg your pardon, Sir Hawkhurst," said the Doctor warmly.
There was always one boy, larger and also naughtier than the rest, who thrashed the thrashers and took their pennies away from them. The prevailing occupation of the children at these places, as on all civilized shores, apparently, was the building of sand-mountains and the digging of pits with their little wooden spades.
The moment Robin Hood becomes a sort of Superman, that moment the chivalrous chronicler shows us Robin thrashed by a poor tinker whom he thought to thrust aside. And the chivalrous chronicler makes Robin Hood receive the thrashing in a glow of admiration. This magnanimity is not a product of modern humanitarianism; it is not a product of anything to do with peace.
As the horse thrashed out of the drowned lands up into the flat plateau where acres of alders, their tops level as a trimmed hedge, stretched away in an even, green sea, a distant, rapping sound struck his ear, sharp, regular as the tree-tapping of a cock-o'-the-woods.
So he went home pretty jolly, and I scratched 'round for the money. Got it, too, and wasn't I glad?" Jack paused to rub his hands, and Frank said, with more than usual respect, "Couldn't you get hold of Jerry in any other place, and out of school time? That did the mischief, thanks to Joe. I thrashed him, Jill did I mention it?"
He can't show his face, you know. He can't come forward and answer questions as to what he has done. There are offences which the law can't touch but which outrage public feeling so strongly that any one may take upon himself the duty of punishing them. He has been thrashed, and that will stick to him till he dies." "Do tell Johnny from me that I hope he didn't get hurt," said Lady Julia.
"He's the most cantankerous crank in the township. And say, let me give you a pointer. If the subject of 1812 comes up, the war, you know, you'd better admit that we got thrashed out of our boots; that is, if you want to get along with Hiram. He hates Yankees like poison." "And did we get thrashed in 1812?" asked Yates, who was more familiar with current topics than with the history of the past.
Very quietly we stood awaiting till she turned her face towards us, but her eyes were bent seaward upon the driving sheets of rain, and the tumbling surf which thrashed upon the shore. "Wait," said Suka in a low voice; "she will see us soon. 'Tis best not to disturb her. She is afflicted of God and seeth many things."
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