bepelted

Updated: June 11, 2025

And then, to punish Cousin Eustace for advising them to dig such a tumble-down cavern, the children attacked him in a body, and so bepelted him with snowballs that he was fain to take to his heels.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Three Golden Apples: (From: "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys")