This field, however, is the property of Judge Willoughby, and here I feel at liberty to thrash you.

I am sorry to have been compelled to thrash you, but I must admit I have enjoyed it exceedingly.

<Whip, chastise, castigate, flagellate, scourge, lash, trounce, thrash, flog, maul, drub, switch, spank, bastinado.

"Why, don't you think we can thrash them?" "I suppose we can; but at the same time they can do a lot of damage.

I am going to thrash you like a dog!" He dragged him to the fire-place.

('Now we will jolly well thrash them!'); nodded to the professor and walked away."[20]

Each sees in his neighbour a Russian or French spy, and imagines that it is his duty to thrash both him and the policeman who intervenes, till the blood flows; if not that, then at least to cause an enormous crowd to gather in giving the alleged spy over to the police.

And to thrash a doglike that!

"You won't thrash him any more, will you?"

"If you mean, does he often thrash me with a horsewhip, no, he doesn't," he said shortly.

You wonot thrash your men? Un.

"Well, what do you think yourself?" said little Mats, and looked so scornful that Nils Holgersson threw himself upon him, to thrash him.

They put their wheat in circles on the ground with the heads out, and drive a mule around to thrash it.

I was tempted to thrash the case out in the police court, but it would not have been safe.

It need not be wondered at, if all these things took me up most part of the third year of my abode here; for, it is to be observed, in the intervals of these things, I had my new harvest and husbandry to manage: I reaped my corn in its season, and carried it home as well as I could, and laid it up in the ear, in my large baskets, till I had time to rub it out; for I had no floor to thrash it on, or instrument to thrash it with.

It need not be wondered at, if all these things took me up most part of the third year of my abode here; for, it is to be observed, in the intervals of these things, I had my new harvest and husbandry to manage: I reaped my corn in its season, and carried it home as well as I could, and laid it up in the ear, in my large baskets, till I had time to rub it out; for I had no floor to thrash it on, or instrument to thrash it with.

"How can you thrash your arms round in bed?"

We men all wanted to thrash him, and I think Burnham would have done it if the rest of us hadn't prevented him.

I find I am getting the whip out, although I promised not to thrash this wretched old economic hack.

Chilton Co. (PWH); 16Jan67; R402723. THRASH, NITA CRABBE MILLER SPIVEY.

Nita Crabbe Spivey Miller Thrash (W); 4Feb66; R379472.

If he were a man, thought Davy, he would go to Old Man Thornycroft's house that night, call him out, and thrash him in the road.

Hoo'll be soom mad when hoo finds out, and hoo'll thrash me for 't. Hoo reckoned to pop it as soon as we'd getten a bit further away fro' Saltfield.

"I think that little imp of mine, Hughie, could thrash him, if they chose to fight, and he is nearly three years the younger of the two.

He knows me better than any one else in the world and I've some ideas I'd like to thrash out with him.