But he was beaten in the end; and the story of his fall is enough to make angels weep.
Were the Company's pumps to be beaten by the vagaries of that troublesome Tarachunda River?
Thirty years have I beaten the gong at this ford, but never have I seen a Sahib in such haste.
A lakh of men beatenby five hundred--and Sikhs among them!
The child was so troubled that she did the household work evilly, and was beaten by Durga Charan's wife in consequence.
Kadir Baksh did not say that he had taken from each gang two annas for rent in advance, and then, beyond my earshot, had beaten them with the big green umbrella whose use I could never before divine.
Common malefactors were beaten to death with clubs.
He refused, and after a week of the profoundest agitation throughout the country, the king, beaten and mortified, was forced to send for Grey and Brougham.
In their style most Byzantine compilers of contemporary history followed the beatentrack of older historians, e.
I am not skulking, sir," said the poor fellow, the furrows in whose bronzed and weather-beaten cheek were running down with tears.
The Admiral was in the greatest alarm, lest some of these poor fellows should get entangled with the ropes and be drowned, or be dashed against one another, and beaten to pieces against the cylinder.
The difficulty lies not in the machine, but in the fact that corn is so easily beaten down by storms that at harvest time the machine seldom finds the stalks all standing up in nice straight rows.
The fleece carried by the saw teeth is beaten off by a wheel (E) fitted with wire brushes.
Often he had beaten better strategists simply by keeping up the fight when by all the rules he was beaten.
He walked slowly down the rickety wooden steps and across the road; then, after looking about irresolutely, he turned toward the weather-beaten little hotel.
Porter and McNally had been beaten at their own game, and they withdrew their forces to Truesdale.
On the instant a hundred men sprang upon him, and he was beaten and trampled under foot, until not only life, but all semblance of humanity, had been crushed out of him; and the wretched remains were dragged out and thrown upon the pavement.
If you had not come to my rescue I should probably have been trampled to death under the feet of those vicious horses, or sadly beaten at least by that brutal driver.
The driver of the beaten team suddenly pulls his horses back on their haunches.
They were examined frequently, and suffered severely from being beaten and otherwise tormented.
And she, with her old husband, growing like a rose out of a weather-beaten rock, proved she was that, among those handsome foreign officers poorly remarkable for their morals.
She saw guile on Mrs. Talcott's storm-beaten and immutable face; and she heard specious reassurance in her voice.
I refuse to lie here and be threatened and insulted and brow-beaten by you.
He was not embarrassed, though he was beaten and done in a way Mrs. Forrester could not guess at; yet he felt an awkwardness.
That schoolmaster deserves to be beaten himself who beats nature in a boy for a fault.
But only the very greatest of them have beaten him, and he often, by sheer perfection of phrase, runs them very close.
The sidewalks in some places are paved with small stones, elsewhere are laid with concrete, or left with a surface of beaten earth.
One combatant, who was beaten and yet by the vote of the audience permitted to live, died on the sand from his wounds.
Being constantly reproved, scolded, and even beaten by her mother, Beth one day impulsively jumped into the sea, and was rescued with difficulty.
The wounded were stabbed while lying on the ground, and their headsbeaten with brickbats.
The lost ground being thus regained, and the French having been beaten on their right, it was not long before word came that Bazaine's army was falling back to Metz, leaving the entire battle-field in possession of the Germans.
While still moving in column up the Jacinto road he met a force of the enemy and had his advance badly beaten and driven back upon the main road.
They were beaten in detail by a force smaller than their own, upon their own ground.
The Tlascalans had, from the moment when they admitted themselves beaten by the Spaniards, laid aside all hostility; and had, indeed, accepted the alliance with enthusiasm.
I know that such fighters as these were never heard of before; for have they not, few as they are, beaten the Tlascalans?
Roger had often been there before, but had carefully abstained from taking any part in the mimic contests; for he knew that men who are beaten sometimes feel malice, and he was anxious to keep on the best terms with all.
Truly it was the mercy of God which alone saved us, for I believe that even my father thought the ship would be beaten to pieces, though he kept up a show of confidence in order to inspirit the men.
We have fought many obstinate wars with the nation lying on the mainland opposite to us, and our men have beaten theirs when they have outnumbered us many-fold; but at present we are at peace.
The fronds of this are branched, whilst the male plant having only one main rib, is more powerful as an astringent, and antiseptic; "the powder thereof freely beaten healeth the galled necks of oxen and other cattell.
Likewise in Pliny's time Snails beaten up with warm water were commended for the cure of coughs.
In Scotland a good dish is prepared from Parsnips and potatoes, cooked and beaten together, with butter.
If beaten into a pulp [540] when ripe, and with water poured thereupon, it makes a capital cooling drink which is purifying, and somewhat laxative.
The root beaten into a conserve with sugar will operate by stool, and by urine.
The nuts are first cooked in eau de vie until their shells and the pellicle of the kernels can be peeled off; then they are beaten into a pulp together with sufficient milk and sugar, with some cinnamon added.
The whole plant, beatento a cataplasm, and applied hot as a poultice, has always been deemed excellent for soothing pain in any tender, inflamed or suppurating part.
In a little while it was ascertained that they had recrossed the Allegany Mountain to the Ohio in such numbers as to leave a beaten track, equal to that made in the preceding year by the army of Braddock.
It is to be specially noted that in the above enumeration only contests in which the result was unexpected--unexpected not only by the beaten side but also by impartial observers--have been specified.
We met antagonists who were very nearly, but, fortunately for us, not quite as familiar with the sea as we were ourselves; and we never found it so hard to beat them, or even to avoid being beaten by them.
Our navy, misdirected as it was, made a good fight of it, never allowed itself to be decisively beaten in a considerable battle, and won at least one great victory.
If the beaten side had been elaborately organised and carefully trained, there must have been something bad in its organisation or its methods.
Outside, the evergreens were beaten down, and the loose strands of the different creepers were flogging wall and trellis-work in a way which forbode destruction to both tree and trellis.
You can see where they havebeaten the grass and stuff down.
Then the roar began again, and the building quivered, while the shutter was lifted and beaten down again with a bang.
We saw bodies still unburied, at some distance from the fort, of some sick men who had been met fleeing from the hospital, and beaten down and brutally murdered, and their bodies left where they had fallen.
Escaping negroes were mercilessly pursued, shot, stabbed, and beaten to death by the mob and police.
They were beaten off with a loss on our part of one man killed and seven wounded; while the opposing party admits twelve men killed (including Lieut.
Finally the washing was given up, as it has been on many an expedition, for cleanliness is a costly and complicated luxury when one is away from the beaten track of civilization.
Finally, when two-thirds of the crew had died, he considered himself beaten in his search, and after visiting New Guinea he went to the Indies.
Stir over the fire until smooth and glossy, then stir into the beaten sugar and butter.
Remove from the fire, and add 1/2 cup sugar and 2 large tablespoons of butter; also 6 eggs, the whites and yolks beaten separately.
After sifting baking powder and flour twice, add remaining flour with beaten whites, and a pinch of salt.
A few minutes before serving dip them one after another in 2 eggs beaten as for an omelet; then in crumbs of rolled cracker made very fine and fry them in very hot lard; not too many at a time.
Stir in the well-beaten yolks of 6 eggs till thick.
Spread the beaten whites of eggs over the pudding, and return to oven, to slightly brown.
Strain and set away till cold; then add the beaten whites, beating the whole thing half an hour, or until it is very white.
Roll them in grated cheese; dip in beaten egg; roll in bread crumbs and fry in hot fat.
