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flay Verb 1. to strip off the skin of, esp. by whipping 2. to criticize severely [Old English flēan]
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The Lion commanded him immediately to tell him the cure, when he replied, "You must flay a wolf alive and wrap his skin yet warm around you. But may the devil flay me if I understand what they mean with their Esmeralda This is certain, that some time before, he had used some poor pagan merchants in that manner, and had caused the executioner to begin to flay them, when some Brahmin, touched with compassion, generously contributed the sum demanded for their ransom. |
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