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I was afraid lest my mother should swinge me on account of the apple, so for fear of her I went with my brother outside the city and stayed there till evening closed in upon us; and indeed I am in fear of her; and now by Allah, O my father, say nothing to her of this or it may add to her ailment!

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Bolingbroke is not active enough; but I hope to swinge him.

The Journal to Stella 2003

At its frequent rise and fall you would say that they swinge and belabour me after the manner of a probationer, posed and put to a peremptory trial in the examination of his sufficiency for the discharge of the learned duty of a graduate in some eminent degree in the college of the Sorbonists.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

At its frequent rise and fall you would say that they swinge and belabour me after the manner of a probationer, posed and put to a peremptory trial in the examination of his sufficiency for the discharge of the learned duty of a graduate in some eminent degree in the college of the Sorbonists.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

While they were in that posture, in came a huge Sandal, with a pitchfork in his hand, who used to baste, rib-roast, swaddle, and swinge them well-favouredly, as they said, and in truth treated them after a fashion.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

While they were in that posture, in came a huge Sandal, with a pitchfork in his hand, who used to baste, rib-roast, swaddle, and swinge them well-favouredly, as they said, and in truth treated them after a fashion.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

"The Secretary promises me to swinge him," he wrote in 1711; "I must make that rogue an example for a warning to others."

The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

That is the neetive misure of the Oirish bards, an 'is iminiutly adapted to rendher the Homeric swinge.

The Lady of the Ice A Novel James De Mille

As for the literary pundits, the high priests of the Temple of Letters, it is interesting and helpful occasionally for an acolyte to swinge them a good hard one with an incense-burner, and cut and run, for a change, to something outside the rubrics.

Old Junk 1915

There was I, and Little John Doit of Staffordshire and black George Barnes and Francis Pickbone, and Will Squele a Cotswold man; you had not four such swinge-bucklers in all the inns of court again: and, I may say to you, we knew where the bona-robas were, and had the best of them all at commandment.

Act III. Scene II. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914