As an instance, this very morning Biddy, remembering a secret mauling at the hands of Lerumie, laid teeth into his naked calf and threw him sprawling into the water, trade-box, earthly possessions and all, and then laughed at him, sure in the protection of Mister Haggin who grinned at the episode.
Like a lioness, when the cook-boy had struck him with a stick to drive him out of the kitchen, had Biddy sprung upon the black, receiving without wince or whimper one straight blow from the stick, and then downing him and mauling him among his pots and pans until dragged (for the first time snarling) away by the unchiding Mister Haggin, who; however, administered sharp words to the cook- boy for daring to lift hand against a four-legged dog belonging to a god.
If it hadn't been for him I'd have got a mauling. Alphonso gets these bad streaks just about every so often.
Flung out with such force as to be smashed against the near end of the cage, Michael fell to the floor, tried to spring up, but crumpled and sank down, his right shoulder streaming blood from a terrible mauling and crushing.
Only Otobu remained to face the enemy, for the Englishman, already weak from his wounds and from the latest
mauling he had received at the claws of the lion, had lost consciousness as he sank to the ground with this new hurt.
It had lain dormant for some time following the painful
mauling he had received that time he leaped among the apes of Kerchak clothed in the skin of Numa; but this joke was a decided success.
Now it was a bejaune or yellow beak (as they called the new arrivals at the university), whom he had been
mauling by way of welcome; a precious tradition which has been carefully preserved to our own day.
At the sight of the thing--a man
mauling with his bare hands one of the most relentless and fierce of the jungle carnivora--Mugambi's eyes bulged from their sockets, and from entertaining a sullen respect for the giant white man who had made him prisoner, the black felt an almost worshipping awe of Tarzan.
What might have happened, but for a timely interruption, may only be surmised; but that the trainer would have received a severe
mauling, if nothing more, was clearly indicated by the attitudes of the two who faced him.
Four witnesses signed the affidavit while a USB, containing a copy of the closed-circuit television (CCTV) video that showed the
mauling incident, was attached as evidence in the case.
Ten minutes later Field were in the lead with more
mauling of the Lions.
For this, Falcon, who is reportedly in hidingfollowing the
mauling incident, faces serious physical injuries charges in relation toRepublic Act 7610 or Special Protection of Children Against Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination Act.
