The whole crowd then precipitated themselves upon him, and with tight-shut fists proceeded to pummel any part of his body they could reach.
Illustration: "The whole crowd then precipitated themselves upon him, and proceeded to pummel any part of his body they could reach.
He measured with his eye the distance between himself and Joe, and wondered if he could cover it in a rush, carry his opponent off his feet, and batter and pummel him as they rolled down the fort wall together.
In a moment the other end of the cord was wound several times round the pummel of the saddle, and the little horse set off at full speed to get ahead of the bull.
A couple of inches of a corn-cob (the inside of a ear of Indian corn) makes a capital cork; and the bottle is hung by a loop of string to the pummel of the saddle, where it swings about without fear of breaking.
In front, the saddle rises into a pummel which is made of hard wood, and is something like a large mushroom with its stalk.
At last Don Juan cut off the retreat of an old bull, and galloping after him like mad, flung the running loop of the lazo over his horns, at the same time winding the other end round the pummel of his saddle.
I sat sideways on my saddle, as one sits in an Irish car, grasping in one hand the pummel and in the other my large green sun umbrella, for the sun was terribly hot.
But to pummelwas one thing, and to arouse Mr. Ketch was another.
When the bishop was tired, Jenkins and Ketch began to pummel and to shout, and they pummelled and shouted till their knuckles were sore and their throats were hoarse.
I stood there and let the two of them pummel me, and knock me down and kick me, and I made no show of resistance.
I do believe he chose the Nigger for his watch so he mightpummel him to his heart's content.
The lattice was pulled to, as he ceased speaking; but they could hear him hallooing within to arouse his mistress and the scanty household.
They continued speaking as they rode along; but these were all the words that reached the ears of the Partisan.
These preparations made silently, promptly, yet deliberately, he stooped and laid his ear to the ground; nor did he raise himself to his full height for several minutes.
The young dragoon wrung the hand of the dying man hard, and the big tears burst in volumes from his eyes, and fell down like rain upon the face of the veteran.
Meanwhile the rider had uncoiled the lasso, which hung from the pummelof his saddle, and whirling it around his head in the true Spanish fashion, thundered along in pursuit of the fugitive at a tremendous pace.
And with the word, he laid his hand on the pummelof the brown charger's demipique, and, without setting his foot into the stirrup, sprang at one bound to his back.
We have a saying here, Sir Nigel, that if you pummel Jacques Bonhomme he will pat you, but if you pat him he will pummel you.
When he had to pummel the "old boy" at Marlborough College he did it the best he knew how.
He resolved, figuratively, to pummel the rum ships, and he was already planning and inventing ways that would make the men's lives easier.
Dale pulled up with a jerk, and Jane leaned over her pummel peering into the darkness where they stood.
His saddle bore an obscure brand of the United States army, for it had carried one of his people through the War of the States fifty years before, and across its pummel balanced a long, ungainly rifle of an earlier period.
He folded his hands on the pummel and let his feet slip out of the uncertain rope stirrups.
The tanner he pulled, the tanner he sweat, And held by the pummel fast, At length the tanner came tumbling down; His neck he had well-nigh brast.
The tanner he pull'd, the tanner he sweat, And held by the pummel fast 114 9.
I’ll gi’ thee a bird I’se got in my pocket, if thee woan’t pummel I no more.
Doan’t theepummel I, doan’t thee now,” said panting Bill.
The only finery of a Persian saddle is a raised pummel either gilt or silvered; and a saddle-cloth, or rather an elegant kind of carpetting, trimmed with a deep fringe.
Wherefore did my father--rex pater meus--pummel the man in the long cloak?
I told my sister that you did pummel a man in a long gown.
In another moment, a vigorous hand seized him by the collar, that lifting him out of his stirrups, dragged him backward, till he felt that he was lying across the pummel of his adversary's saddle.
Over the withers of the animal destined for the ex-student of theology rose a long lance, strapped to the stirrup and the pummel of the saddle.
Bombastus kept a devil's bird Shut in the pummel of his sword, And taught him all the cunning pranks Of past and future mountebanks.
Who've tuk ould Erin by the han'; We'll pummel the Britishers every man.
To take ould Erin by the han'; We'll pummel the Britishers every man, And make you King of Ireland!
The officer barked an order, which brought his men to an attentive halt, then swaggered forward, his gloved hand bearing down the pummel of his sword, his spurs jingling musically as he moved.
A diamond of great price flamed on the indifferently clean hand resting on the pummel of his long rapier, and there were gold rings in his ears, half-concealed by long ringlets of oily chestnut hair.
