art sure the flay-vor'll suit?

Flay him alive: if some of you don't, I must skin him myself.

Well, now listen; go along, and take her, but, you lazy dog, if you get into any scrapes, and don't work like live coals, I'll send her to the other estate (which was situated forty miles distant), and flay you alive into the bargain.

"Flay" is usually, if not always, written "flea" in old authors.

tar and feather; pelt, stone, lapidate^; masthead, keelhaul. execute; bring to the block, bring to the gallows; behead, decapitate, guillotine; decollate; hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang draw and quarter; shoot; decimate; burn; break on the wheel, crucify; empale^, impale; flay; lynch; electrocute; gas, send to the gas chamber.

An excellent lecture may be made upon his body; for he is a kind of dead carcasecreditors, lawyers, and jailors devour it: creditors peck out his eyes with his own tears; lawyers flay off his own skin, and lap him in parchment; and jailors are the Promethean vultures that gnaw his very heart.

no colours Feeres Felt locks Feltham's Resolves Fend ( = make shift with) Fins (a very doubtful correction for sins) Fisguigge Flat cap Flea ( = flay)

"Get along or I'll flay ye alive!"

"You 'ear, now," he said, looking round with a veteran's contempt upon the squad of recruits in pauperism, "if none on yer don't break out with somethink before the week's over, I'll flay the lot.

Back then they went to consult their traps and flay their fragrant captives, and we shot forward.

Oldys and Cobbett tried to flay him alive in pamphlets; Sherwin and Clio Rickman were prejudiced friends and published only panegyrics.

I could not have so much as got any food, except fish and turtles; and that, as it was long before I found any of them, I must have perished; that I should have lived, if I had not perished, like a mere savage; that if I had killed a goat or a fowl, by any contrivance, I had no way to flay or open it, or part the flesh from the skin and the bowels, or to cut it up; but must gnaw it with my teeth, and pull it with my claws, like a beast.

For example, if I killed a goat abroad, I could hang it up in a tree, flay it, dress it, and cut it in pieces, and bring it home in a basket; and the like by a turtle: I could cut it up, take out the eggs, and a piece or two of the flesh, which was enough for me, and bring them home in a basket, and leave the rest behind me.

"I have, sire," said the Fox, "and it is this: you must flay a Wolf and wrap yourself in his skin while it is still warm."

"You will speak," he said, "or I shall flay you in strips and then shoot you.

Now Bones was born with a genius to flay: He might have ranked, had he lived to-day, As a capital taxidermist:

She would turn the place upside down, flay all the servants alive, if ever a few drops of oil were spilled from a jar, or a crumb of bread were wasted on the table.

"I warn youI will flay you and your friends just the same.

Choose, now, the way thy benefactors' feet shall go; and see to it, Croesus, that thou dost choose wisely; or, by thy ears, we'll flay thy woolly hide and hang it on the mountainsidea warning to thy kind.

"If applied but once gently with the palm of the hand, it will afford the sufferer delightful and instantaneous relief;" i.e., It at once removes the skin, and if rubbed in with vigour will flay a horse. PLATFORMULARS.

Probe use hit in press flay.

'I'll flay the man that says it!'

'You can't flay me,' her ladyship retorted with corresponding spirit.'

At the end of the month of flay, 1099, they were all masse upon the frontiers of Phoenicia and Palestine, numbering according to the most sanguine calculations, only fifty thousand fighting men.

117. 'Let rules be fix'd that may our rage contain, And punish faults with a proportion'd pain, And do not flay him who deserves alone A whipping for the fault that he hath done.

Have you not reason to waye that whatsoever ether Virgil did write of his gnatt or Ovid of his fley was all covertly to declare abuse?...

I will know it, Or fley thee till thy pain discover it.