Like lubberly monks, we belaborour own shoulders, and take a vast satisfaction in the music of our own groans.
The man, evidently a ryot, is lying on his back, his feet are lashed together and held soles uppermost by means of an horizontal pole, while the farrashes briskly belabor them with willow sticks.
The place where I had dined and which I had taken for a village was Saint-Germain; I asked the way to the forest and resumed my journey, stopping only to jump ditches, and to belabor donkeys that I happened to pass.
But our newspaper critic will belabor that author soundly for us!
Each man had dropped to his hands and knees as soon as he had reached the bushes; and the foresters might beat and belabor Mother Sherwood in vain, for she would never betray her children.
He caught up his stick and began to belabor them soundly.
They had not much time to belabor Master Gaunt either, for they took to their heels and ran as soon as his master came to his rescue.
I heard the whole plan, and set three men to belabor him on the road, and bring her back.
