In fact, he had a large share of self-respect and independence, and was not likely to submit to browbeating from anyone.

It is not seldom the case that when a man is browbeaten in some unprecedented and violently unreasonable way, he begins to stagger in his own plainest faith.

It struck her as ludicrous that she should be browbeaten on this point.

This is the blank, brazen, blushless, or only brass-blushing, impudence of an Old Bailey Barrister, attempting to browbeat out of Court the better and more authentic half of the witnesses against him.