Their huge leathery ears flapped lazily, and ever and anon one or other would seize a mighty branch, and belabour his corrugated sides to free himself of the detested and troublesome flies.
When he found himself before the emperor he said, 'All these must go away; to the emperor alone can I tell why I belabour my donkey.
The keeper rushed towards them, and seizing Pillichody, began to belabour him soundly.
Will it please you to stay here, while I go and unearth the wretch, and belabour him till there is no breath left in him.
He said he would track him out and belabour him as he deserved.
He began to belabour it, before it had time to make its bow and hop off, as though it was flesh and blood like himself; but only broke his own knuckles against its hard head.
And they clapped their hands while Lamme continued to belabour the boatman most unmercifully.
When the two women saw Lamme, they ran up and both began to belabour him--the mother because of the fright he had given her, the sister because it was her habit so to do.
Whoever reasons with the Hindus when they mercilessly belabour the progeny of the cow with their sticks?
Speak--speak, or by Santiago de Compostela, I will so belabour thy shrivelled form, as to reduce it to atoms in less time than you can say your credo.
I could catch his reverence by himself, I would sobelabour his shaven skull, as not to leave it in want of razors for the future.
I beat my breast in despair, and then, changing from that to wrath, I began to belabour the ribs of the dead man with all the strength of my foot, as if he were answerable for my disappointment.
With that, the bloody-minded miscreant seized upon a fragment of plank, and began to belabour me with all his strength.
Without saying a word, she snatched the first stake from the fence, and began to belabour the boy, as if she would beat him to a jelly.
In his plays "the old man does not belabour the person next him with a stick.
In xi, 557, Ajax retreating slowly from the Trojans is compared to an ass who has gone to feed in a field, and whom the boys find great difficulty in driving out, "though they belabour him well with cudgels.
One of them carries a small sucking pig in a basket on her back; and all of them bear wands, with which they belabour the little pig at the appropriate moment; its squeals help to attract the vagrant spirits.
But, when all is said, he has the temper of an angel; and were he not apt to thump and belabour himself now and then in his fits, you would take him to be a saint.
The loss of her dinner--and of such a dinner--so enraged the hungry girl, as to cause her to seize a brush lying near and begin to belabour him without mercy.
The more they craved for mercy, the more brutal he became, till at last he took a heavy stick and began to belabour the poor victim on the head.
Mr Shaw seems to have begun to belabour the Bishop from a feeling that a blow to the Bishop was a blow to the Censor, but having once begun, he seems to have gone on simply because he enjoyed beating a Bishop.
There should perhaps be no prophet needed to belabour us into making an end of such disasters as have recently taken place in so far as they are preventable.
Come, come away, I am taken with thy love fool, And will mightily belabour thee.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "belabour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
