But the spank in Lilly's hand was suddenly singing against her palm and there was a rush of her not so forbearing forefathers to the very front.
She wanted to scream, to throw back her head and shout her hysteria, to spank her daughter bodily there across her knees, and more than that she wanted to laugh!
I who loved my country with the jealous love that makes a ma spank her boy for cuttin' up.
Nay, verily, every spank that makes him behave is a touching evidence of her warm devotion.
Susan had conscientiously spanked all the other Blythe children when she thought they needed it for their souls' good, but she would not spank Shirley nor allow his mother to do it.
No; she would haul him back, and the more he kicked and struggled the more she would hang on, and like as not spank him.
In the morning I met Mr. Spank waiting for me at the entrance, and very desirous to see me.
That last thought sent me down at once to watch for Mr. Spank again, resolved that if I could catch him, spank him I would to a pretty good tune, although sixteen in family.
If you say another word I'll get up and spank you.
Ma, when you get up to spank me will you give me a drink?
It is the stronger who spank the weaker until they become strong enough to stand up for themselves.
It seems to imply that it is the way of life to spank somebody else.
Old and feeble as I am, it seems to me as though I could spank a boy that wears knickerbocker pants buttoned onto a Garabaldy waist and a pleated jacket.
They make you look as you did when I used to spank you in years gone by, and I feel the same old desire to do it now that I did then.
Why, he is so big and strong, he could spank me, if he wanted to.
This is it: Dear George: I am the boy who can spank you.
I could spank Constantine and skin him alive afterwards, that I could," she exclaimed bitterly.
Sometimes she felt quite proud of him; and sometimes she yearned to spank him.
It makes parents feel dreadfully when their children quarrel, and it is very wearing to have to spank fifteen at once, particularly when one has to use his tail with which to do it.
You may recall how, on that dreadful night, their father had to spank them with his scaly tail and their mother sent them to bed.
It always amuses me how parents agonize over the lost child, and spank it when it's found," said Martin Christiansen, the guest of honour at the tea.
Yo' ma 'd be skeered tospank you, skeered she 'd injuh yo' mumps.
Spank him and send him to bed," she laughed, uneasy at his tone.
You may spank us and put us to bed, like the old woman in the shoe if you want to.
Green Eyes, Jensie Jameson, and that boy who sometimes rides in the 'Spank Me Again'!
But then, perhaps he only mans the 'Spank Me Again.
By dint of diligent bailing they had forced their crazy dory, towed by the equally crazy "Spank Me Again," to carry them home.
The third day after Cook's capture, an old lady hunting nuts in the woods came spank upon us, while we were sleeping in the sun.
The mode of punishment in those days for a boy was to draw him over the master's knee and spank him, and I am quite sure I got more floggings than all the other seventy-nine scholars together.
Dodo, if you touch that bag again, I'll spank you.
I'll get my candy back if I have to-- spank her," this last with a fierce scowl.