1 She went with them herself to see the pigs and the cows, to look at the darkies laying the cane, to thrash the pecan trees, and catch fish in the back lake.
2 He felt that he would like to thrash the general, or at least approach and tell him in plain words exactly what he thought him to be.
3 D'Artagnan did reflect, and resolved to thrash Planchet provisionally; which he did with the conscientiousness that d'Artagnan carried into everything.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS 4 Porthos boasted of the strength of Mousqueton, who was big enough to thrash four men of ordinary size.
5 But he lets my groom thrash him, all the same.
6 He sent for the carpenter, who, according to his orders, ought to have been at work at the thrashing machine.
7 He makes the horses ill with too much water, cuts good harness, barters the tires of the wheels for drink, drops bits of iron into the thrashing machine, so as to break it.
8 He was thrashing about in the grass, twisting his shuddering body into many strange postures.
9 They had never seen animals behave like this before, and this sudden uprising of creatures whom they were used to thrashing and maltreating just as they chose, frightened them almost out of their wits.
10 Daniel galloped up silently, holding a naked dagger in his left hand and thrashing the laboring sides of his chestnut horse with his whip as if it were a flail.
11 "Mars' Billy" had begged for mercy in the case of others when the overseer or master was thrashing them.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter I. 12 He catched me a couple of times and thrashed me, but I went to school just the same, and dodged him or outrun him most of the time.
13 He groaned and moaned and thrashed around this way and that for a long time.
14 They brought mattresses down to the living-room, and thrashed and turned by the open window.
15 He sprawled like a man who had been thrashed.