27 examples of brow-beat in sentences

"The fellow has evidently come to the conclusion that in dealing with people like the Morristons an offensive brow-beating manner does not pay," he remarked casually.

"Lack of civilization,"perhaps that explains my having seen again and again officers striking the soldiers they were drilling, and journeys made torture through witnessing slapping and brow-beating of children by their parents.

"I do not believe the ministry was instituted to be brow-beaten by tribes of savages, any more than it is to be silenced by the unbeliever, or schismatic.

But Isidore Bamberger was not the man to be brow-beaten by any one he employed.

Men who had left the trade upon principle, and who had come forward, against their apparent interest, to serve the cause of humanity and justice, were looked upon as mercenaries and culprits, or as men of doubtful and suspicious character; they were brow-beaten; unhandsome questions were put to them; some were kept for four days under examination.

When kings were kings, they bullied, beat, and and brow-beat their jesters.

We confess that, in all this, while there may have been cause for watchfulness on the part of Germany, we can see no valid cause for war, nothing that of necessity implies more than an intention, on the part of Russia, not to be brow-beaten in the future as she was in 1909 and 1912.

On the landing they met Mrs. Steadman, a stout, commonplace person, who always had the same half-frightened look, as of one who lived in the shadow of an abiding terror, obviously cowed and brow-beaten by her husband, according to the Fellside household.

I do not mean that she had an actual auricular grip on him, but the effect upon his woe-begone and brow-beaten person was the same.

He was sadly brow-beaten during his first term of service by a great broad-shouldered lout of some eighteen years or so, who thought he needed a little more "schooling," but at the same time felt quite competent to direct the manner and measure of his attempts.

It were too long to narrate their adventures at length, or to describe in detail how Johnson grieved over traces of the iconoclastic zeal of Knox's disciples, seriously investigated stories of second-sight, cross-examined and brow-beat credulous believers in the authenticity of Ossian, and felt his piety grow warm among the ruins of Iona.

For some one was crying like a child in the little room where Mr. Gurney brow-beat recalcitrant borrowers.

She had learned to bargain, pare down prices, evade fees, brow-beat the small tradespeople and wheedle concessions from the greatnot, as Ralph perceived, from any effort to restrain her expenses, but only to prolong and intensify the pleasure of spending.

" "What a shame," said Louis; "these men who have always had their rights of citizenship, seem to know so little of the claims of justice and humanity, that they are ready to brow-beat and intimidate these people for voting according to their best interests.

And Humanity, brow-beaten, stunned with noise and tumult, is pushed aside by the crowd!

And Humanity, brow-beaten, stunned with noise and tumult, is pushed aside by the crowd!

And Humanity, brow-beaten, stunned with noise and tumult, is pushed aside by the crowd!

And Humanity, brow-beaten, stunned with noise and tumult, is pushed aside by the crowd!

Wherever the negroes clustered numerously, from Boston to Philadelphia and Cincinnati, they were not only brow-beaten and excluded from the trades but were occasionally the victims of brutal outrage whether from mobs or individual persecutors.

He was no longer master of himself or of those he commanded, and I could scarce believe that this harried, brow-beaten, menaced leader of the Milice was the alert and intrepid soldier I had served under before Yorktown.

Throughout the Delta and widely about its grief-broken, discrowned, beggared, shame-crazed, brow-beaten Crescent City the giddying heat quaked visibly over the high corn, cotton, and cane, up and down the broken levees and ruined highways, empty by-ways, and grass-grown railways, on charred bridges, felled groves, and long burnt fence lines.

The mailed clutch on her throat (to speak as she felt) had grown less ferocious, but everywhere the Unionist civilianthe once brow-beaten and still loathed "Northern sympathizer," with grudges to pay and losses to recoup and re-recoupwas in petty authority.

When a Man has taken care to pretend to nothing but what he may justly aim at, and can execute as well as any other, without Injustice to any other; it is ever want of Breeding or Courage to be brow-beaten or elbow'd out of his honest Ambition.

My beginning was narrow, and my stock small; I was, therefore, a long time brow-beaten and despised by those, who, having more money, thought they had more merit than myself.

The new General, whose position until within a few months had been a humble one, was brow-beaten and dominated by powerful personalities and forced to stand for acts and words which were not really his own.

27 examples of  brow-beat  in sentences