I have the gull-flayer on the hip at last.

Since the moment of the lady's answer, he had been conscious of obscure doubts as to her truthfulness, clustering round the suspicion that she might have known, by hearing something, that Dewhurst, the gull-flayer, was on the side of the maternity, and that she wanted to punish hima notion which seemed to be favoured by the somewhat affected manner of her expressing her little sermon.

Sir John Flayer 'On the Asthma.' (Vol. iv, p. 353.) Johnson, writing from Ashbourne to Dr. Brocklesby on July 20, 1784, says: 'I am now looking into Floyer who lived with his asthma to almost his ninetieth year.'

"One Caboche, a flayer of beasts in the shambles of Hotel-Dieu, and Master John de Troyes, a surgeon with a talent for speaking, were their most active associates.

It is not to your honor to let yourself be guided by flayers of beasts and a lot of lewd fellows.

" ECORCHEURS (lit. flayers properly of dead bodies), armed bands who desolated France in the reign of Charles VII., stripping their victims of everything, often to their very clothes.