Short of cuffing everybody all round, there seemed nothing to be done but growl.
It was the priest who first confounded the victim and the culprit in idea, by pitching into the former, cuffing him soundly, kicking him, and spitting repeatedly in his face.
Then turning her experienced eyes from Kate to Giles, and observing the position he had taken up, and a sheepish expression, she hinted at cuffing of ears.
About him flew the clamours of the dead Like fowls, and still stoop’d cuffing at his head.
Now, philosophical reader--if such you be--do not suppose that I advocate kicking and cuffing as the best possible cure for general mischievousness and badness in a boy.
She was very sweet tempered, and never would strike back, as her brothers and sisters had done when their mother washed them, cuffingthem if they dared move.
She was very peremptory, cuffing them right and left at the least provocation.
I think I should, in the event of his cuffing me, knock the Armenian down.
About him the dead flocked as thick as bats, hovering around, and cuffing at his head: he stands with his dreadful bow, ever in the act to shoot.
The lecture that followed was not of the gala-day kind, but John Jay consoled himself by thinking that he would probably have had a cuffing instead had it happened on any other day.
Then something struck him, first on one ear, then the other, cuffing him soundly.
I remember very well that the day after the cuffing bestowed on me by Doña Francisca in her wrath at my irreverent conduct and her intense aversion to all naval warfare, I went out to attend my master in his daily walk.
Haply they are now blundering; but after an hour they will know me and say, This fellow is a beggar; and take their fill of cuffing me on the neck.
Little Tim, in the grasp of John Hart, was receiving the soundest cuffing and mauling that had ever fallen to his lot in a somewhat varied experience with the world.
Up comes Mr. Lummis, I say, lugging this boy along, cuffing him about the head, and still rating him with the utmost vehemence.
And further, it is not such a bad thing to get a good cuffing once in a way; it sets one thinking.
He had been drinking; he spoke of his intention of cuffing a Prussian officer in order that he might be sent away.
The potato merchant called me a liar, and my master called me a fool; so the one fell a-kicking me and the other a-cuffing me.
Well, I will go back, and think nothing of all the cuffing and scolding of old Cicely if I am at last to be Lord Mayor of London.
And here he fell so viciously to shaking and cuffing him again, that poor Geoffrey could hardly open his mouth to answer; but at length he managed to gasp out resolutely: “I will not tell thee till to-morrow.
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