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  • She fell on him, pummeling his chest with her fists.†   (source)
  • Bullies couldn't pelt me with spitballs, give me atomic wedgies, or pummel me by the bike rack after school.†   (source)
  • I recall you pummeled me once when I stole Polly's doll.†   (source)
  • Eddie straddled the Captain's chest, pummeling him with blows to the face.†   (source)
  • The girl found herself pummeled to within inches of her life.†   (source)
  • A blinding arc of lightning went right over their heads, pummeled the earth behind them; Thomas didn't look, kept moving.†   (source)
  • Cole moaned as a violent gust of wind pummeled his body.†   (source)
  • Kate's ears were boxed, her hair pulled, her cheeks pummeled with Jillson's boltlike knuckles.†   (source)
  • The cop dragged her out of the car and pummeled her so badly she spent a week in the hospital.†   (source)
  • I would have been pummeled.†   (source)
  • He lifted her as she struggled, kicking and pummeling the air.†   (source)
  • I can't make it past him out the door unless I pummel him, and the man has an axe.†   (source)
  • Victor jumped on Arthur and started pummeling him furiously, landing roundhouse blows to his head so fast that his arms were a blur, like the nylon strings on a Weed Whacker.†   (source)
  • Pummeled: Getting tossed around by a breaking wave†   (source)
  • Homburg Molly steered them through the brawling soldiers and patrons, ducking to avoid the reach of pummeling fists, her homburg flattened into a razor-edged disk to shield her from the soldiers' swords.†   (source)
  • It felt like a fist was pummeling Aria's stomach.†   (source)
  • She flew at her sister like an arrow, knocking Sansa down to the ground, pummeling her.†   (source)
  • The pummeling of the storm came in waves, almost drowning out the noise of the orchestra.†   (source)
  • His mouth is closing in on mine, and the way his voice has dropped into some sort of lyrical, godlike octave makes my heart pummel within my chest.†   (source)
  • "We tried to keep warm by pummeling each other," Weathers remembers.†   (source)
  • Through a curtain of smoke across the harbor, Danny could see the planes pummeling the battleships, flying low, firing their guns, and then circling back for another attack.†   (source)
  • The men pummel him for what seems like ten minutes.†   (source)
  • Danny clutched at him furiously, at first seeming to pummel him like a fighter, then clutching his belt and sobbing against his shirt.†   (source)
  • With a fierce war cry he leapt after Murtagh, closing his eyes a second before the cold water pummeled him.†   (source)
  • The next thing I knew, I was pummeled.†   (source)
  • The night the helicopters came in, the vibrations pummeled us out of our beds.†   (source)
  • A sudden morning breeze pummeled the ship, and the line burned through my fingers, sending smoke from the tree's bark.†   (source)
  • She needed to hear the pummeling waves, their constancy and loudness drowning out her own pounding heart.†   (source)
  • Watching those guys pummel each other so no one would suspect them of being weak was too much for me.†   (source)
  • The wind pummeled the balloon as if it were an inverted punching bag, then tore it to pieces and cast shreds of its nine thousand yards of silk as far as half a mile away.†   (source)
  • While the rain pummeled the roof, the whole world went silent.†   (source)
  • Pummeled me in places where the bruises wouldn't show.†   (source)
  • But there's a low thudding sound, too, like someone pummeling a bass drum, and for a minute he thinks maybe it's a truck rolling by on the overpass above them.†   (source)
  • Two scarred hands grabbed my collar and yanked me to my feet, and I stood sucking air, inches from Sarah Byrnes's pummeled face.†   (source)
  • She'd been getting pummeled in the press.†   (source)
  • Her whole body ached from the pummeling it had taken.†   (source)
  • He was his old jolly self, apparently no worse for the pummeling.†   (source)
  • They had passed autumn afternoons when they were nine years old in the hollowed-out base of a cedar tree, where they sprawled on the ground looking out at the rain as it pummeled the sword ferns and ivy.†   (source)
  • It had never fully occurred to Jean Louise that she was a girl: her life had been one of reckless, pummeling activity; fighting, football, climbing, keeping up with Jem, and besting anyone her own age in any contest requiring physical prowess.†   (source)
  • The dust billowed and spun as they kicked and pummeled and thrashed each other.†   (source)
  • He just grabbed him, swung him around his head once, twice, smashed his skull against the nearest boulder, pounded him, pummeled him, gave him a final squeeze for good measure and tossed the remains of what once had been alive into a nearby crevice.†   (source)
  • He imagined being an adventurer on some wild white river, being pummeled by a waterfall as he was sucked into a vortex.†   (source)
  • And the largest roar of all, flung at the woman, burnt her hands, seared her face, or so it seemed, for she seized herself as from a blast furnace, wrapped her fried hands in Egyptian rags, gripped her dry dugs, skipped back, gave pause, then started a slow retreat, nudged, pushed, pummeled inch by inch, foot by foot, clattering bookracks, shelves, fumbling for handholds on volumes that thrashed free as she scrambled them down.†   (source)
  • Instead of assaulting him with my fists, as I felt like doing, I pummeled him with words.†   (source)
  • I think of the first time I looked into those eyes, as a freezing six-year-old getting pummeled in the culling pen.†   (source)
  • In the past, the black gangsters had bought their drugs from a middleman, the Mafia—which, as it happened, was then being pummeled by the federal government's new anti-racketeering laws.†   (source)
  • Sims went over and collared him, literally, got him in a headlock and mock-pummeled his shaved dome.†   (source)
  • The United States government had no mechanism to punish China for forced abortions, so instead it pummeled UNFPA.†   (source)
  • Again Adam was pummeled, and again "he popped back up and jumped into his three-point stance, like he wasn't going to take no for an answer," says Coach Anderson.†   (source)
  • Then the flashlight fell to the ground and Mortenson felt a sharp flurry of fists pummeling his arms and shoulders in congratulations.†   (source)
  • No, first you have to pummel it and stomp on it and crush it in your hands until the tissue oozes from between your fingers like Play-Doh.†   (source)
  • Beginning December 8, B-29 Superforts and B-24 Liberators had been pummeling the island mercilessly.†   (source)
  • "Untie us, and there will be no pummeling until we're all safe on dry land."†   (source)
  • I sneeze and the specks pummel across the light.†   (source)
  • He was pummeled spinning to the edge of the ditch and sent slithering down on his head and shoulders.†   (source)
  • The trouble was that I couldn't think of any other way than to pummel him with my fists until he felt the same degree of pain he had caused in me.†   (source)
  • I start to play and my fingers nimble up and I get off the stool and bang and crank against my guitar, pummel it until it screeches and screams just the way I want it to.†   (source)
  • Together they pummeled the Eraser, and Iggy chopped down on the arm holding Angel.†   (source)
  • Like Tanis, they would be pummeled by the bloodthirsty beasts.†   (source)
  • Rasco bounced from his chair—he was much taller than he appeared sitting down—and pummeled Simeon with two brutal shots to the face.†   (source)
  • And then I took the book and pounded her, and he did, and we just pummeled her into nothing.†   (source)
  • "Struggle if you must," said he, "but kindly remember that I'm hiding down here in this crate and I don't want to be stepped on, or kicked in the face, or pummeled, or crushed in any way, or squashed, or buffeted about, or bruised, or lacerated, or scarred, or billed.†   (source)
  • She might not have been able to imagine herself there, spending hours having herself creamed, oiled, pummeled, and sculpted, but if she were going to waste such time on vanity, it would certainly have been interesting to do so under such civilized conditions.†   (source)
  • It stands on ground, what many people in this city see as holy ground, where civil rights marchers were pummeled by batons, blasted with fire hoses and gnawed by dogs, on the orders of a one-eyed little man named Bull Connor.†   (source)
  • The man was incensed; she was furious, so she furiously pummeled her way through the astonished Orientals, the majority shorter than she was, but her superior sight lines were no help.†   (source)
  • Max screamed, shut his eyes, and began fiercely pummeling him.†   (source)
  • A dozen fists pummeled his body, fingernails tore at his cheek and a finger clawed at his eye.†   (source)
  • San Francisco got pummeled along with a lot of other cities.†   (source)
  • She rolled and rolled, the ground pummeling her from every direction.†   (source)
  • A group of boys pulled him down from the table and started pummeling him.†   (source)
  • Doug and Reuben and Dave joined us, and I was slapped, pummeled, and hugged.†   (source)
  • Above the screaming skies and pummeling seas, Montes found himself in a second's flash, straining to hear for the sound of the beam shattering, searching to see one of the masts shear off, feeling for the ship to roll over onto its side and break in two.†   (source)
  • She saw Boyle, his face a mask of vengeance, pummeling his fists into Cabhan's face.†   (source)
  • What are you going to do, Parky, hold me down and pummel me?†   (source)
  • I was kicked, pummeled, and nearly slashed by a sword blade.†   (source)
  • The giants carried huge sacks, and as the brave fishermen rushed into port, their vessels were pummeled and crippled by hurled boulders.†   (source)
  • When the lights went out, we would pummel the person sitting in the middle.†   (source)
  • The pain brings ANNIE to her knees, and HELEN pummels her; they roll under the table, and the lights commence to dim out on them.†   (source)
  • Accompanied by my mother, I was hauled before bureaucrats and stripped naked, pummeled, poked, and photographed by white-clad posture experts.†   (source)
  • Liza was a good plain cook, and her house--it was always her house--was brushed and pummeled and washed.†   (source)
  • The Gray Sisters screeched and pummeled each other and cried out for their eye.†   (source)
  • Why won't you drown?" he wailed, pummeling me with his fists.†   (source)
  • He attempted to pummel me, but his staff was useless at close range.†   (source)
  • Tyson untangled himself from the giant whom he'd pummeled into unconsciousness.†   (source)
  • Ben started pummeling buttons, shouting, "Eat it, goblin!†   (source)
  • The new guy peeked in and saw his buddy getting pummeled.†   (source)
  • Annabeth pummeled and kicked me, making it hard to con-centrate.†   (source)
  • The stones were small at first, but soon Dex and Dr. Gage were being pummeled by big rocks.†   (source)
  • As the blows pummeled him, Cole's own anger smoldered.†   (source)
  • It's cold and the rain is no longer just falling; it's pummeling.†   (source)
  • Rain pummeled them, flying horizontally, captured by a ferocious wind.†   (source)
  • Rain pummeled the glass, almost louder than the orchestra.†   (source)
  • Immediately her sisters pummeled her from either side, screaming, "Be quiet!†   (source)
  • Hail swept in, pummeling the elves, hulder, and nixies alike.†   (source)
  • One was being pummeled by a half-dozen bottles of sparkling water.†   (source)
  • Insults and curses pummeled Bellagrog, who forged ahead with a murderous scowl.†   (source)
  • She yelled and kicked, pummeling Bob's gut, but Bob didn't seem to care.†   (source)
  • Before Percy could react, they began pummeling Ella with their wings, snatching at the burrito.†   (source)
  • I was his pummeling bag now, and there was nothing I could do about it.†   (source)
  • If that wasn't true, I'd be drunk in some Dublin slum, looking for something weaker to pummel.†   (source)
  • I watch in awe as Raffe pummels Beliel with blows so fast they're almost a blur.†   (source)
  • Pig said, sweeping around me and pummeling Bobby on the back.†   (source)
  • He wanted to pummel Aarfy, but lacked the strength to lift his arms.†   (source)
  • "You'll hit me, or pummel me, or something equally nasty.†   (source)
  • For hours, she'd let herself be pummeled by him.†   (source)
  • Five burly men in a fur ball of pummel and shove.†   (source)
  • With some difficulty, he managed to shout and push and pummel his troops into submission.†   (source)
  • The charging centaurs were scattering the Death Eaters, everyone was feeling the giants' stamping feet, and nearer and nearer thundered the reinforcements that had come from who knew where; Harry saw great winged creatures soaring the heads of Voldemort's giants, thestrals and Buckbeak the hippogriff scratching at their eyes while Grawp punched and pummeled them and now the wizards, defenders of Hogwarts and Death Eaters alike were being forced back into the castle.†   (source)
  • The sun flares pummeled the earth.†   (source)
  • And then he was on Laila, pummeling her chest, her head, her belly with fists, tearing at her hair, throwing her to the wall.†   (source)
  • I got pummeled pretty badly.†   (source)
  • A Japanese officer stopped the attack, but that evening Watanabe turned on Bush, hurling him onto a scalding stove, then pummeling and kicking him.†   (source)
  • He'd see Justin the next day in Herbology and he'd explain that he'd been calling the snake off, not egging it on, which (he thought angrily, pummeling his pillow) any fool should have realized.†   (source)
  • Fist-sized bubbles of steam coalesce amid its fractal tracery of hot vanes and pummel the rurface of the ocean, ceaselessly, all day and all night.†   (source)
  • Both of them pummeled it.†   (source)
  • Zero pilots pummeled bombers with machine gun fire and massively destructive 20mm cannon shells, which rammed gaping holes in their targets.†   (source)
  • The tornado's whirring roar rose up, mixing with the thud, crash, smash of debris pummeling their car.†   (source)
  • Her heart pummeled against her ribs as she scanned all the parts and tools that would be left behind.†   (source)
  • They stopped two feet from him; he got back to his hands and knees, scared to do anything more for fear of getting pummeled again.†   (source)
  • Clarisse pummeled my hand.†   (source)
  • First you want to pull your opponent in, then pummel him with every one of your strike points until he or she collapses.†   (source)
  • The gunslinger sat down-almost fell down-feeling the aching joints and the pummeled, thick mind that was the unlovely afterglow of mescaline.†   (source)
  • Such a fearful clacking and a clattering it made, as if a hundred trees were pummeling one another with their limbs.†   (source)
  • There they gorged themselves on meat and mead while the wind howled around them and bursts of rain pummeled the sides of the flapping tent.†   (source)
  • Many of the attackers were actually pummeling each other—he saw a woman fall into the fire, her screams filling the air.†   (source)
  • The two remaining men were on him, fists and knees pummeling him, as the captain of the fishing boat repeatedly screamed his warnings.†   (source)
  • Riders suffered horrible injuries when dragged from their stirrups and under their horses' legs or when thrown forward, ending up clinging to the underside of the horses' necks while the animals' front legs pummeled their chests and abdomens.†   (source)
  • I thought that it would be an immediate invitation to be pummeled by a bunch of jealous meatheads, but it turns out, most of them see me as an asset.†   (source)
  • A six-armed Earthborn and a Laistrygonian giant pummeled each other with rocks, though Percy wasn't sure if they were fighting or just messing around.†   (source)
  • A moment before the lights went out, he turned away from the platform, disgusted with the scene, the kid Renault being pummeled by Janza.†   (source)
  • There's too much blood on his face, he's too pummeled and wrecked to perish, his bedragglement is the sign to us that he is safe, actually immortal.†   (source)
  • With a last, gasping final surge, Bourne shot up and crashed Carlos back into the side of the van, pummeling the wounded area.†   (source)
  • On both occasions, the downdrafts cast her out of the underbelly of the storm into the squalls of rain that pummeled the sea below.†   (source)
  • Men and women who only seconds ago were merely screaming, now began thrashing their arms about, pummeling anyone and everyone near by.†   (source)
  • For the next month, as American bombers and cruise missiles began to pummel the country to his west, Mortenson criss-crossed northern Pakistan in his Land Cruiser, making sure all the CAI projects underway were completed before cold weather set in.†   (source)
  • He punched the singer in the face and in the belly, then began to pummel him about the shoulders with both hands.†   (source)
  • In agony, he crouched and sprang again, pummeling the killer with a gun into the wall above a sharp-edged piece of furniture.†   (source)
  • She told me she'd beaten off a priest's advances with her umbrella, and others had come to her assistance and pummeled the man.†   (source)
  • And again, she jabbed at him, an elbow to the jaw, torn knuckles to the face, screaming and cursing as if her words would pummel him as well as her fists.†   (source)
  • Jason stopped, taking two rapid sidesteps toward the man, then pivoted, his balance on his left foot, his right lashing out at the fifth man's midsection, pummeling him backward over the iron rail.†   (source)
  • There were clues to that earlier, I suppose, but even when I had seen the old woman pummeled by the Emperor's guards, it suited me to believe that Hema and Ghosh still controlled the universe.†   (source)
  • He sees men in a helter-skelter line waiting at the plate to pummel him—his teammates, no better fellows in the world, and there's a look in their faces, they are stunned by a happiness that has collapsed on them, bright-eyed under their caps, He tomahawked the pitch, he hit on top of it and now his ears are ringing and there's a numbing buzz in his hands and feet.†   (source)
  • The narrow, fenced entrance to the tunnel was virtually stormed, racing figures colliding, pummeling, climbing over one another, rushing en masse toward the mouth of the underwater access.†   (source)
  • Tall waves pummeled the ship, and for a day, they were all miserable as a cold rain and a fierce wind battered them.†   (source)
  • The heavier elements—the stones, the broken pieces of wood, and the clumps of dirt—fell straight down, pummeling the surface of the lake, while the smaller particles remained suspended in the air, forming a large brown smudge that slowly drifted farther west.†   (source)
  • And when the shock wave hit, we got pummeled up another two thousand feet, this big tonnage aircraft acting like a leaf on a blowy night.†   (source)
  • He ran through the crowd, pummeling everyone in front of him, shoving the blinding, spitting flare into terrified faces, until he reached the front and faced a cordon of guards in the uniforms of the United States Army.†   (source)
  • The door crashed open; he smashed it back, then threw his full weight into the wood, pinning the intruder against the doorframe, pummeling the man's stomach, chest, and arm into the recessed edge of the wall.†   (source)
  • Yet here she was, the morning after, letting herself be pummeled by the hot pulse of his shower sprays.†   (source)
  • Since he had now knocked me down from the standing position he was entitled to fall on me and pummel away, and he did, but only around my ribs and stomach.†   (source)
  • Glenn pummeled it and pressed it, and worked on it much as Carley had seen a life-guard work over a half-drowned man.†   (source)
  • Driscoll was promptly and indignantly flung on the heads of Sons in the next row, and these Sons passed him on toward the rear, and then immediately began to pummel the front row Sons who had passed him to them.†   (source)
  • …had been ordered to cross to the city in all haste and bring the best physician; I was doing my best; naturally I was running with all my might; the night was dark, I ran against this common person here, who seized me by the throat and began to pummel me, although I told him my errand, and implored him, for the sake of the great earl my master's mortal peril— The common person interrupted and said it was a lie; and was going to explain how I rushed upon him and attacked him without a…†   (source)
  • Some of these were settled by the men-at-arms with brief ceremony; the shafts of their battle-axes, and pummels of their swords, being readily employed as arguments to convince the more refractory.†   (source)
  • Then, he and my sister would pair off in such nonsensical speculations about Miss Havisham, and about what she would do with me and for me, that I used to want—quite painfully—to burst into spiteful tears, fly at Pumblechook, and pummel him all over.†   (source)
  • Laurie knew this pillow well, and had cause to regard it with deep aversion, having been unmercifully pummeled with it in former days when romping was allowed, and now frequently debarred by it from the seat he most coveted next to Jo in the sofa corner.†   (source)
  • But Asios Hyrtakides pummeled his thighs and groaned and bit his lip and said: "O Father Zeus, you, even you, turn out to be a liar.†   (source)
  • I felt as if I were being pummelled by a great fist.†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans do not repeat the "L" prior to adding the "ED".
  • Every time it stopped Mr Weasley cursed furiously and pummelled the number nine button.†   (source)
  • It even seemed to amuse him that he was regularly pummelled at the chessboard.†   (source)
  • 'And banning Fred when he didn't even do anything!' said Alicia furiously, pummelling her knee with her fist.†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans do not repeat the "L" prior to adding the "ING".
  • The wind was picking up; even at a distance Harry could hear the swishing, pounding sounds of the rain pummelling the surface of the lake.†   (source)
  • He let go of the gun with his right hand and raised his elbow up to protect his face from the pummelling.†   (source)
  • The man fell to the floor, stunned, as his partner turned in fury to Webb after pummelling Pak-fei to the ground.†   (source)
  • Gradually he got the upper hand, presently he was sitting astride of me, pummelling me as I squirmed.†   (source)
  • But as Nikolich's fist pummelled the side of his head, it suddenly occurred to him that he was too old for this sort of thing.†   (source)
  • The lithe, strapping Australian, his language magnificently obscene, was pummelling three separate assailants out of his personal boxing ring.†   (source)
  • 'Jump!' whispered Delta, swinging his right leg over the wall, pummelling the assassin down to the ground.†   (source)
  • They were rigid, staring, and abusive, pummelling passports with their rubber stamps with the fury of hostile adolescents.†   (source)
  • She was roughly forty feet away; Marie started running, pummelling off bodies in her path as she tried to catch up.†   (source)
  • He retched, exploding the chop in his throat, and leaped over the rope, plunging into the crowd, following the path of fallen-away bodies that had been pummelled by the killer in his race to escape.†   (source)
  • He could barely move, but he did move, and then he raced out of his small office and down the corridor with such speed that he pummelled three students and a colleague out of his path, sending two into walls the others buckling under him; he was a man suddenly possessed.†   (source)
  • He caught the muscles of Jason's left thigh, following the blow with his left foot, pummelling it into Bourne's abdomen as he leaped to his feet, hands extended and rigid, his muscular body moving fluidly, even gracefully, in a semicircle and in anticipation.†   (source)
  • He kicked off his high heels, circled the pillar again and like a footballer back raced into the crowd nearest the train, passing a Chinese who tried to grab him, dodging through pummelled bodies and startled faces.†   (source)
  • The marine sprang to his feet and, as his Oriental adversary ran up to him, he pounded a low left hook into the young man's kidney, and followed it with a well-aimed right fist into the Oriental face, pummelling his assailant back into the store-front while screaming in agony at the pain both blows caused his scalded hands.†   (source)
  • "Is that the way to hold a file, you Asiatic?" bellowed Khudoleiev, dragging Yusupka by the hair and pummelling the back of his neck.†   (source)
  • After being dragged for a few yards by the reins he stopped the horse, righted the sleigh, and was pummelled by Lara and Katia, who climbed back, scolding and laughing.†   (source)
  • Once, shrieking with laughter, they followed a running fight through the streets between a young Jew and his father-in-law, in which each was pursued and pummelled, or pursuing and pummelling; and on the day when Louis Greenberg, a pale Jew returned from college, had killed himself by drinking carbolic acid, they stood curiously outside the dingy wailing house, shaken by sudden glee as they saw his father, a bearded orthodox old Jew, clothed in rusty, greasy black, and wearing a…†   (source)
  • Once, shrieking with laughter, they followed a running fight through the streets between a young Jew and his father-in-law, in which each was pursued and pummelled, or pursuing and pummelling; and on the day when Louis Greenberg, a pale Jew returned from college, had killed himself by drinking carbolic acid, they stood curiously outside the dingy wailing house, shaken by sudden glee as they saw his father, a bearded orthodox old Jew, clothed in rusty, greasy black, and wearing a…†   (source)
  • 'Who or what has been pummelling the boy?'†   (source)
  • I'm not going to be lectured and pummelled by everyone, just for a bit of a frolic.†   (source)
  • The sailors now crowded boldly aft, grinning and shuffling, to watch the pummelling of the hated Cockney.†   (source)
  • She had said at once, "You're not comfortable there; wait a minute, I'll arrange things for you," and with a titter of laughter, the complacency of which implied that some little invention of her own was being brought into play, she had installed behind his head and beneath his feet great cushions of Japanese silk, which she pummelled and buffeted as though determined to lavish on him all her riches, and regardless of their value.†   (source)
  • [9] This gigantic pummelling, in the long run, was destined to encourage an independent spirit in the national literature, if [Pg069] only by a process of mingled resentment and despair, but for some time its chief effect was to make American writers of a more delicate aspiration extremely self-conscious and diffident.†   (source)
  • And he went through the motions of thrashing an imaginary boy —pummelling the air, and kicking and gouging.†   (source)
  • But the reason is rather an amusing one: I fell asleep and dreamt that I was fighting that fellow again who insulted you, and the noise you heard was my pummelling away with my fists at my portmanteau, which I pulled out to-day for packing.†   (source)
  • If the proprietor of Dotheboys Hall could have known what was passing in his assistant's breast at that moment, he would have discovered, with some surprise, that he was as near being soundly pummelled as he had ever been in his life.†   (source)
  • We all burst into a roar of laughter, which soon made him face about, and then, to our infinite amusement, the little fellow prepared for a fresh onset; laying down all he was carrying, pulling off his jacket and spreading it wide out in both hands, he returned to the charge, suddenly threw his garment over the creature, wrapped it well round it, and then pummelled it with all the strength of his fists.†   (source)
  • That master's cruel treatment of his own flesh and blood, and vile designs upon a young girl who interested even his broken-down, drunken, miserable hack, and made him linger in his service, in the hope of doing her some good (as, thank God, he had done others once or twice before), when he would, otherwise, have relieved his feelings by pummelling his master soundly, and then going to the Devil.†   (source)
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