38 examples of belabored in sentences

No one can be belabored into righteousness.

Go fetch the sword and I will e'en belabor thee again.

"A cut-purse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem , And put it in his pocket!" <Strike, hit, smite, thump, beat, cuff, buffet, knock, whack, belabor, pommel, pound, cudgel, slap, rap, tap, box.

This poor fellow whom thou hast so belabored is counted the best hand at the quarterstaff in all merry England.

So far as She Fox was concerned, this kindness largely resulted from discretion, the daughter having in the last encounter so belabored the mother that she was laid up for a week.

Trenck endeavored to force him to fight, without avail, then, disgusted with the lieutenant's cowardice, he caught up a stick and belabored him heartily, crying: "Rogue, go tell your fellows how Trenck deals with traitors!"

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As the mayoral's whip could only reach the second span, the business of the latter was to jump down every ten minutes, run ahead and belabor the flanks of the foremost mules, uttering at the same time a series of sharp howls, which seemed to strike the poor beasts with quite as much severity as his whip.

"It is only a stick that if I say, 'Boombye, boomba,' will beat you to death," said Juan, and with that the stick leaped from his hand and began to belabor the wicked man.

Rising in a rage, I grappled some man, tripped up his heels, got on his chest, and never left off belaboring him until I felt pretty sure that he would keep quiet during the rest of the soiree.

It is pleasant to see how much our Quaker is indebted for his themes to Cotton Mather, who belabored his un-Friends of former days with so much bad English and worse Latin.

At midnight Tartaro took his club and belabored the dead body most unmercifully.

We belabored him well, but the fellow stood as if dumb, remained silent, and laughed in our faces as if we had been speaking to each other and not to him.

Listening the last time to Miss Hilst's playing at Laura's, I thought to myself that if the piano were a man who had seduced her sister, she could not belabor him more mercilessly.

With spur and lariat end they belabored their mounts and gamely the horses responded.

He often saw women belaboring the naked back of a slave with branches of the cruel acacia delinens, and finally rub salt or saltpetre into the wounds.

and, taking Girard by the hair, he threw him on the ground and belabored him heavily.

Each dayincluding the hours of the night, when the night watch took a handhe was belabored with fists, broom handles, and frequently with the heavy bunch of keys which attendants usually carry on a long chain.

No, plague take him, He'l kiss our tails as soon; he looks upon us, As if he would say, if ye will turn again, friends, We will belabor you a little better, And beat a little more care into your coxcombs.

He therefore belabored him till his sullen obstinacy gave way to a roar for mercy, and promises never so to offend again.

I'll teach him," growled Pietrie, and jumping up, he belabored Wright's head with the Latin grammar out of which he had just been cribbing.

Then they began to belabor each other.

These enemies were infuriated by the sluggishness of the disabled hulk; they treated it as Indians treat a captive who cannot keep up with their march; they belabored it with blows and insulted it with howls.

I was wet to the skin and in no amiable humor; and not being able to find bell-pull or knocker, or even a door, I belabored the side of the house with my heavy walking-stick.

He belabored his instrument as heartily as if it had been his worst enemy, but with so much independence of character that he never kept the same time as his fellow-players for two minutes together.

38 examples of  belabored  in sentences