Sometimes there were great disturbances at the meetings, sometimes he was pelted with rubbish, at times he did not know where to turn for a night's lodging.

On one occasion he lit a bonfire in his dormitory, he pelted the German master with rejected examination papers, and in a single day was caned over a dozen times.

The rain still pelted on the glass roof, and the darkness had become so complete in the gallery that they had walked on without seeing anything before them.

In an instant, he was the centre of a brood of baby-fiends, who lifted sticks against him, pelted him with stones, and displayed an instinct of destruction far more loathsome than the blood-thirstiness of manhood.

Or her stinging words pelted him as she breasted the hill slopes with supple ease.

There's an odd number," he added, as Jack Harpe pelted back at a brisk trot over the way he had come.

Approaching the church of Riddarholm, his carriage was pelted with stones, Fersen himself seeking shelter in various places, but being pursued by the mob and killed.

The policeman who had been employed to watch Madame's house, and who had been induced to turn his back for a while by some mysterious process best known to Mr. Fitzgerald, was severely cross-examined and liberally pelted with oaths.

If, as was his usual custom, he dropped asleep, after a meal, he was pelted with olives and date-stones, or rough stockings were drawn over his hands that he might be seen rubbing his face with them when he was suddenly awaked.

Simultaneously a Russian aeroplane swept down upon us with a noise like an angered bird of prey and pelted us with bombs, the effects of which, however, were more moral than actual, for we had regained the security of the trenches and opened fire on the approaching enemy, who in spite of heavy losses advanced steadily until he reached our wire entanglements.

If he had said it was a machine to mark the hour, his clock would have been broken and himself pelted.

They seem, somehow, to be fully persuaded that the inspired word of God has no inherent power to stand alone,that it has fallen among thieves and robbers,is being pelted with fossil coprolites, suffocated with fire-mist and primitive gases, or beaten over the head with the shank-bones of Silurian monsters, and is bawling aloud for assistance.

They were pelted by perfectly external events, a necessity for doing this, an appointment to do that, an engagement somewhere else.

She took the way by the stone horse-pond, through an alley to the left between two blind walls, then down a steep path through wood to the rock-steps, and up we ran, and along the hill, to her yali, which is a mile nearer the village than the palace, though by the time we pelted into its dry shelter we were wet to the skin.

Why were the Presbyterians chased like the partridge over the highlands of Scotlandthe Methodists pumped, and stoned, and pelted with rotten eggsthe Quakers incarcerated in filthy prisons, beaten, whipped at the cart's tail, banished and hung?

Why were the Presbyterians chased like the partridge over the highlands of Scotlandthe Methodists pumped, and stoned, and pelted with rotten eggsthe Quakers incarcerated in filthy prisons, beaten, whipped at the cart's tail, banished and hung?

A soldier soon gets to like being a conqueror; and Napoleon wheeled around those German generals, and pelted away at 'em, until they didn't know where to hide long enough to get a little rest.

Every one who passed by pelted its branches with sticks and stones, in order to bring down the fruit, and the tree suffered severely.

But the dog, whining and trembling, followed Grimshaw, and would not be shaken off until Grimshaw had pelted him with small stones.

It was a wild night, the wintry winds howled fiercely round the dwelling, and pelted the snow and sleet furiously against the casement, when Mrs. Barlow, after attending to those duties that make a New England home so comfortable, dropped her crimson curtains, and seating herself by a comfortable coal fire, commenced preparing her little Emma for bed.

Yet, if the uncouth borderers were as brutal as the highly polished Greeks, they were more manly; defeat was not necessarily considered disgrace, a man often fighting when he was certain to be beaten, while the onlookers neither hooted nor pelted the conquered.

Unpopular thinkers who have been pelted with stones by Christians, slightly the worse for liquor, are apt to think well of minorities.

Pretty little gloves pelted us with love-taps.

In this way,hooted and pelted by the rabble, who pursued him as he was led along, and who would have inflicted serious injuries upon him, and perhaps despatched him outright, had it not been for the escort by whom he was protected,he was taken in turn to all such taverns and houses of entertainment as had suffered most from his scandalous system of oppression.

I felt like one who had gone out to walk in fresh attire, and been mud-pelted by rude urchins, so that the outward robes, at least, were soiled, and a sense of degradation and uncleanness became the consequence in spite of reason.