I have given them a
thrashing they will remember; a set of cowardly, rascally `orange' blackguards."
"It is good for me, bad for another traveler, and for himself it's unavoidable, because he needs money for food; the man said an officer had once given him a
thrashing for letting a private traveler have the courier horses.
He met Robert one day talking to the girl, or walking with her, or bathing with her, or carrying her basket--I don't remember what;--and he became so insulting and abusive that Robert gave him a
thrashing on the spot that has kept him comparatively in order for a good while.
When the morning came at last, I was in a bad enough plight: seedy, drowsy, fagged, from want of sleep; weary from
thrashing around, famished from long fasting; pining for a bath, and to get rid of the animals; and crippled with rheumatism.
Athos counseled D'Artagnan to dismiss the fellow; Porthos was of opinion that he should give him a good
thrashing first; and Aramis contended that a master should never attend to anything but the civilities paid to him.
Yesterday he even had some trouble with the police because of his
thrashing the steward of these buildings.
There's nothing for it but a good sound
thrashing." He paused to shake hands with the master, which Holmes does also, and then prepares to leave.
"He shall have the finest
thrashing ever elephant received.
He sent for the carpenter, who, according to his orders, ought to have been at work at the
thrashing machine.
"That's your affair," returned Samson, "but to suppose that I am going home until I have given Don Quixote a
thrashing is absurd; and it is not any wish that he may recover his senses that will make me hunt him out now, but a wish for the sore pain I am in with my ribs won't let me entertain more charitable thoughts."
Suddenly we heard, at a little distance to our right and partly in front, a noise as of some animal
thrashing about in the bushes, which we could see were violently agitated.
Then and there they gave each other a sound
thrashing.