wallopping

Updated: May 5, 2025

"I have half a mind to give you a wallopping." "Never do anything by halves, Henry," said the boy mildly. "I never do. It's a bad habit; always go the whole length or none. Now that we are alone, I'll give you a reasonable account of what I know, if you'll remove your hand from my collar.

R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader

I was greatly amused by overhearing a dialogue between Old Wittals and one of his youngest sons, a sharp, Yankeefied-looking boy, who had lost one of his eyes, but the remaining orb looked as if it could see all ways at once. "I say, Sol, how came you to tell that tarnation tearing lie to Mr. S yesterday? Didn't you expect that you'd catch a good wallopping for the like of that?

Susanna Moodie - Life in the Backwoods

I stayed there with Mr. Yoshikawa, and whether any geisha had gone there early in the evening or not, that's none of my business." "Shut up!" Porcupine wallopped him one. Red Shirt tottered. "This is outrageous! It is rough to resort to force before deciding the right or wrong of it!" "Outrageous indeed!" Another clout. "Nothing but wallopping will be effective on you scheming guys."

Soseki Natsume - Botchan (Master Darling)

I was greatly amused by overhearing a dialogue between Old Wittals and one of his youngest sons, a sharp, Yankeefied-looking boy, who had lost one of his eyes, but the remaining orb looked as if it could see all ways at once. "I say, Sol, how came you to tell that tarnation tearing lie to Mr. S yesterday? Didn't you expect that you'd catch a good wallopping for the like of that?

Susanna Moodie - Roughing It in the Bush

The representatives for the pot wallopping boroughs, for the scot-and-lot boroughs, and for the single borough of Preston, where the franchise is vested in the inhabitants at large, represent the lowest orders of the people; and in this manner this borough representation represents all classes and descriptions of persons, who have any thing to do with the business transacted in the House of Commons.

Duke of Arthur Wellesley Wellington - Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century

I'll have the fine times when I leave the schule and that winna be long now, for I'm clean sick o't; I'll no bide a day longer than I need! I'm to go into the business, and then I'll have the times. I'll dash about the country in a gig wi' two dogs wallopping ahin'. I'll have the great life o't." "Ph-tt!" said Swipey Broon, and planted a gob of mud right in the middle of his brow.

George Douglas Brown - The House with the Green Shutters