The viands, my son, scattered from his knife over the board, like chaff before the flail.

They neither plough nor sow; ne, fit for flail, E'er to the barn the nodding sheaves they drove; Yet theirs each harvest dancing in the gale, Whatever crowns the hill or smiles along the vale.

Whilst thou dost spend with friend and foe, At home che hold the plough by th' tail: Che dig, che delve, che zet, che zow, Che mow, che reap, che ply my flail.

[Exeunt. ACT IV., SCENE I. Enter ROBIN GOODFELLOW, in a suit of leather, close to his body; his face and hands coloured russet-colour, with a flail.

[They fight: ROBIN beateth the miller with a flail, and felleth him.

[SHORTHOSE pulleth JUG after him: ROBIN beateth the priest with his flail.

What, miller, are you up again? Nay, then, my flail shall never lin, Until I force one of us twain Betake him to his heels amain.

That small, unknown ship was the Mayflower; those men and women who crowded her decks were that little handful of God's own wheat which had been flailed by adversity, tossed and winnowed till every husk of earthly selfishness and self-will had been beaten away from them and left only pure seed, fit for the planting of a new world.

They came and came, and kept on coming, and their iron-shod feet flailed the earth to powder, and there was no end to them.

And taking the goose by the neck, he swung it round his head like a flail, and began to batter Pillichody about the face with it.

In the porch of the manor house, amid an accumulation of old traps and other curious odds and ends there hangs an ancient and much-worn flail.

The god wears the white crown with feathers, and he holds in his hands a sceptre, a crook, and whip, or flail, which typify sovereignty and dominion.

His arms flailed into the first tenuous streamers, which parted in pearly lace before his eyes.

After enough of the roasted meat had been thrown on the hide, it was flailed out with sticks, and being very brittle was easily broken up, and made small.

"Ack!" exclaimed the lanky Starman, stumbling backward, knocking over a couple of small boxes as his arms flailed.

The wheat was reaped with sickles or cradles and either flailed out or else trampled out by cattle and horses, usually on a dirt floor in the open air.

At the time of St. Columba's ministry, England, which during the lifetime of St. Patrick had been Roman and Christian, had now under the iron flail of its Saxon conquerors lapsed back into Paganism.

Neuve Chapelle had been literally flailed with the high explosive projectiles of the new British artillery, which the British had to make after the war began in order to compete with what the Germans already had; for poor, lone, wronged, bullied Germany, quite unpreparedAustria with her fifty millions does not countwas fighting on the defensive against wicked, aggressive enemies who were fully prepared.

Next day he was thrashing corn in the barn and something upset him and pitched him head foremost across the flail.

He rose, and three times he was pitched like that across the flail, so he gave up and went home.

Long fire-tongues, banners of incandescence, flailed away, roaring into space.

Two men grunted, flailed wild arms and sank, with the water about them tinged red as the sunset.

The fire by the beach flailed into long tongues of flame, throwing black shadows along the side of the wady.

That hair, too, writhed and flailed in the gusts that drove it full of sand, that drifted his whole body with the fine and stinging particles.

The major replied nothing, but his pick-axe flailed into the cement with desperate energy.