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"They gave us a trouncing last year, and we're bound to pass it back to 'em." "I believe I'd really lose all interest in the game, if Dick and Greg didn't play on the Army this year." "I think I'd feel the same way about it," agreed Dan. "But never fear -they will play." Two days later Dan finished his bath and dressing, after football practice, to find that Dave had already left ahead of him.
Jim was glad to escape, even on so gruesome an errand, and now when he kissed Kedzie good-by he had to kiss momma as well. He would almost rather have kissed poppa. He entered his home in the late afternoon with the reluctance of boyhood days when he had slunk back after some misdemeanor. He loathed his mission and himself and felt that he had earned a trouncing and a disinheritance.
But leaving Jan to settle with Snip, he descended upon Bill with his whip, double-thonged, and administered as sound a trouncing to that hardy warrior as any member of the team had ever received.
If it were mischief for mischief's sake, I could punish her, but her intentions are good " "Good intentions don't amount to much in her case. A good trouncing might make her think a little more." "I can't whip her, Faith, but I'll go up and lecture her good. I believe that will be more effective than harshness."
Marlboro was a great general, and as sorry a scoundrel as ever led troops to battle. Truly," says he, musing, "the Lord often makes queer choice in his instruments for good." And he lowered himself into the easy chair and crossed his legs, regarding me very comically. "What's this I hear of your joining the burghers and barristers, and trouncing poor Mr.
It is to be hoped that this was often considered an equivalent for the "trouncing" which was the common penalty of accident or inadvertence suffered by the Puritan child. In truth, Solomon's unwholesome caution, "Spare the rod and spoil the child," was all too strictly observed in those conscience-ridden Puritan days.
Indeed they may terminate in a thorough trouncing of the male on the part of the lady of his affections. Now this preference for color over song must have evidently evolved in connection with the development of social habits in the English sparrows. His cousins of the fields, our native sparrows, are much less social, much less likely to be met with in flocks.
The following afternoon Upper and Lower Houses turned out en masse to see the first of the hockey series and stood ankle-deep in the new snow while Upper proceeded to administer a generous trouncing to her rival. "Eat 'em up, Upper! Eat 'em up, Upper!" gleefully shouted the supporters of the blue-stockinged players along the opposite barrier.
If I were not a magistrate, I'd give the wretched young poachers a severe trouncing. How dare you, eh? how dare you, I say, come trespassing on my grounds and poaching my rabbits?" The only answer that I could find was, "I'm very sorry, sir. I did not think; and I'll never do so any more;" but it seemed so ridiculous as I thought it, that I held my tongue.
But, by God His faith, an they would be ruled by me, he should get such a trouncing therefor that he should stink for it! Then, turning to the lady's brothers, 'My sons, said she, 'I told you this could not be. Have you heard how your fine brother-in-law here entreateth your sister? Four-farthing huckster that he is!
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