Only once during the brief meal was Sergeant Corney asked for information, although the word had passed around the encampment that he and I were but just come from Fort Schuyler, and then it was that the old soldier gave those insubordinate men such a tongue-lashing as they deserved

He was not happy with their description of him and was seriously considering giving them a tongue-lashing, but thought discretion was the better part of valor, at least for the moment.

Now, up to your room immediately!" Graham had not been expecting to come home to such a tongue-lashing, but he was very happy to finally be back home after so many harrowing experiences.

On the contrary, many times a week Miss Lavinia administered a tongue-lashing that suggested perpetual motion.

During the first dreadful weeks of his drudgery in the stifling confusions of the restaurant, when even the memory of Sylvester's tongue-lashings faded under the acute reality of the head waiter's sarcasms, that love of his for Sheila had fled away and left him dull and leaden and empty of his soul.

But Whipple toiled like a Trojan, and Remsen beamed contentment and scattered tongue-lashings alternately; and Blair, ever armed with a text-book, watched from the side-line whenever the chance offered.

You have come to get a right nice little woman's tongue-lashing.

If she did not spare him her tongue-lashings, it was nevertheless expected in the family that she would leave him something handsome in her will.

The Squire's spoiled son, kick the poor crippled girl, He darts to the rescue as quick as he can, And dusts the hard road with the cruel young man; And when he is sought by the vengeful old Squire, He withers the latter with tongue-lashing ire; For the town might combine his young nerve to destroy, And never once shake himthe story-book boy.

He tongue-lashed them in Arabic.

But I may say I'm not especially anxious for a tongue-lashing to-night.

And I had not even the satisfaction of tongue-lashing my oppressors, for I was practically speechless.

So it was arranged, and they slept out the rest of the night, side by side, and in the morning they gathered up and returned all Abdullah's cattle, and in the evening, in Farid's presence, Abdullah got the tongue-lashing of his wicked old life, and Farid of the Desert laughed and came in; and they all lived happy ever afterwards.

Edd gave them a tongue-lashing and thrashing at one and the same time.

Although he now roundly tongue-lashed them in general terms, there was no definite personal accusation that he could make against them.