The usual panacea of palaver was tried; Congress did its best to add to the general confusion of thought; and, as if that were not enough, a Convention of Notables called simultaneously to thresh the straw of debate anew, and to convince thoughtful persons that men do not grow wiser as they grow older.

In the gloom we threshed backward and forward, but our efforts to escape were vain.

But he kept on, and in another moment a head once more bobbed up, with Puss threshing the water frantically.

It may well be that a man is at times horribly threshed by misfortunes, public and private: but the reckless flail of Fate, when it beats the rich sheaves, crushes only the straw; and the corn feels nothing of it and dances merrily on the floor, careless whether its way is to the mill or the furrow.

Be good unto your self, y'have ta'ne already all you can take with ease; you are past threshing, it is a work too boisterous for you, leave such drudgery to Andrew.

" "Yes, but you were threshed soundly, serjeant, as I've heard from many that were there.

There's been a row between Von Blitz and the lawyer, and the lawyer has unmercifully threshed Von Blitz.