The military guard at the causeway gate failed to present arms, so the officer rushed at the men andbelabored them with a stick.
He grasped this in passing, and, as soon as he was clear of the tent, belabored the lion over the face with it.
This was a memorable contest, lasting six weeks, during which the besiegers belabored it with the best battering-cannon they could procure, and used up eighty barrels of gunpowder voted by Parliament for the purpose.
Ye shall no longer make a fool of me," and quite beside himself with anger, he ran upstairs and belabored the poor young fellow so vigorously with the yard-measure that he sprang out of the house.
The other paid him back in the same coin, and they got into such a rage that they tore up trees and belabored each other so long, that at last they both fell down dead on the ground at the same time.
And so belabored as to be scarce able to crawl along it," cried a third.
The latter, however, was not a man to be quelled by words, for he caught up his ell-measure sword-sheath and belabored the cursing clerk with it.
Three students held Jordan fast and the little sophomore, dancing with glee, belabored the huge half "scrambled egg," each blow resounding through the room.
From the back room came the sound of belabored breathing and a hoarse voice called for Tessibel.
When the eagle, in order to defend his nest, belabored his head and face till the blood ran, he would still maintain that he was born under a lucky star, if only he managed to bring home a single eaglet.
The devil obediently thrust both hands into the split, and tore and clawed with all his might; but suddenly Murmur Goose-Egg knocked out the wedge, and there the devil was caught in a vice, while Murmur belabored his back with the ax.
At this the soles of his feet were belabored still more--poor Simplex really thought his last hour had come.
When the Pinkertons appeared, a brawny Hungarian seized one of them by the throat and struck him in the face, while a stoutly-built woman belabored him with a club.
To spring on his back and hold him fast down was the work of a second, while I belabored him about the head with my fists.
Father and sons would occasionally get drunk together, and then the cabin was a scene of ruffian brawl and fighting, in the course of which the old Frenchman was apt to get soundly belabored by his mongrel offspring.
At the same time he belabored him with the butt-end of his musket, till the Dragon was quite exhausted and began to beg off, promising to give a written agreement never again to molest the Princess.
But scarcely had she crawled into the sack when the Man tied it up tight andbelabored her head with his ox-goad until she gave up the ghost.
With mighty stroke repaid him / the valiant minstrel too, And so belabored Wolfhart / that thick the sparks around him flew.
Etzel's men around him / belabored he so sore That they at sword-point / durst not withstand him more.
Glory had been belabored with worse things than hats during his eventful career; he laid back his ears, shut his eyes tight and took it meekly.
In an instant the innkeeper was thrown upon his face, and while one man held his head, and another his feet, a third belabored the poor fellow till he roared again.
These snakes are very venomous; so jumping back, by no means leisurely, I seized a long stick, and belabored him with it till he could do no harm.
His imagination like a merciless flagellate, belabored him with fancies.
He concentrated on the detached word "inferior" and belabored it with untiring fury.
And while the good woman set about lighting a fire in the great open fireplace, Major Potter got between two chairs, into each of which an urchin mounted, with a broom in his hand, and so belabored his jacket as to fill the room with dust.
It was not long before a howl from the opposite direction, together with the voice of a man shouting, as he belabored some unfortunate beast, announced the arrival of the visitors.
The dogs answered, until their masters, waking, belabored them into silence.
The Whig journals belabored it manfully, and exhausted the resources of those formidable weapons, italics and small capitals, in the attempt to throw a ridiculous light on the facts most creditable to Pierce.
At Brook Farm he "belabored the rugged furrows" with a will; and at the Old Manse he presided over his garden in a paradisiacal sort of way.
Another franchise had slipped out of the Common Council into the transit company's pocket, and even the partizan papers mildly belabored the aldermanic body.
These spoke of his candidacy in the highest terms, and belabored the editors of Herculaneum for not accepting such a good chance of ridding itself of McQuadeism.
I struck him once and twice, got him by the neck, and belabored him with the hilt of my sword.
Even the guard could not stand it; he scolded us, and belabored us with his whip.
After this promising debut, he belabored Madelon and rode away as fast as possible from his patients.
As he spoke, Monsieur Chambertin mounted the beast, and belabored him with his cane in default of a crop.
He therefore belabored him till his sullen obstinacy gave way to a roar for mercy, and promises never so to offend again.
Without uttering a sound they belabored the ruffians, beating, whacking, prodding and swinging their clubs to good purpose.
Hippy plunged at the mob andbelabored them right and left with the blazing torch.
Daggers were drawn, cudgels brandished, the bystanders taking part generally against the sailor, while those who protected him were somewhat bruised and belabored before they could convey him out of the church.
