16 Metaphors for beating

The BEAT is an attack in which a sharp blow is struck against the opponent's rifle for the purpose of forcing him to expose an opening into which an attack immediately follows.

His beat was the respiratory tract and his treatment the last word in vaccines and serums.

But it was not alone her physical self that had grown old; her heart-beat, too, was andante.

[In such cases the beating or stinging was originally a purification; at a later time it is interpreted as a test of courage and endurance.

His beat was the respiratory tract and his treatment the last word in vaccines and serums.

There are three steps in each bar; the fourth beat is always a rest.

" The afternoon had been all that a summer afternoon on the brown highlands can be, and the powerful touring car had swept them from mile to mile over the dun hills like an earth-skimming dragon whose wing-beat was the muffled, explosive thud of the motor.

I felt very glad afterwards to be able to ask to have all my heart consecrated by the Lord's spirit; and I do believe that to rectify, not extinguish, the beat of oar facilities, is religion's work.

I have more martyrs in your walls Than God has; and they cannot sleep; They are my bondsmen and my thralls; Their wretched lives are full of pain, Wild agonies of nerve and brain; And every heart-beat, every breath, Is a convulsion worse than death!

"Are the French beaten?" was the question which he repeated to every one who came into his apartment; and he expressed how great a satisfaction it was to him to know that they were defeated.

" Politics is but the common pulse-beat of which revolution is the fever spasm.

The beating of her heart was her measure of time now.

My view is confirmed by the well-known fact that in China a beating with a bamboo is a very frequent punishment for the common people, and even for officials of every class; which shows that human nature, even in a highly civilized state, does not run in the same groove here and in China.

Wife-beating is still a flagrantly common offence in England.

So, she leaned as far from him as she might, watching him with frightened eyes while he frowned ever upon the road in front, and the car rocked, and swayed with their going, as they whirled onward through moonlight and through shadow, faster, and faster,yet not so fast as the beating of her heart wherein was fear, and shame, and anger, andanother feeling, but greatest of all now, was fear.

For all offences, except the worst, a beating is the obvious, and therefore the natural penalty; and a man who will not listen to reason will yield to blows.

16 Metaphors for  beating