be-thumped

Updated: May 12, 2025

Coleridge began to 'exert himself. He burst into a steady stream of talk which broadened and deepened as the moments fled. When finally it ceased the bewildered auditor pulled himself together and exclaimed, 'Zounds, I was never so be-thumped with words in my life!

Leon H. (Leon Henry) Vincent - The Bibliotaph: and Other People