Under this were hung
flails, harness, various utensils of husbandry, and nets for fishing in the neighboring river.
Aiming in these plays to
flail the follies of his time, he makes his chief characters, in spite of his realistic purpose, extreme and distorted
One of its arms was a disabled
flail which used to be wielded by Goodman Rigby, before his spouse worried him out of this troublesome world; the other, if I mistake not, was composed of the pudding stick and a broken rung of a chair, tied loosely together at the elbow.
The arms of the combatants whirled in the air like
flails. The faces of the men, at first flushed to flame-colored anger, now began to fade to the pallor of warriors in the blood and heat of a battle.
Boar-spears, scythes,
flails, and the like, were their chief arms; for the Normans, with the usual policy of conquerors, were jealous of permitting to the vanquished Saxons the possession or the use of swords and spears.
The old men on the rising straw-rick talked of the past days when they had been accustomed to thresh with
flails on the oaken barn-door; when everything, even to winnowing, was effected by hand-labour, which, to their thinking, though slow, produced better results.
The great deer-hound was couched on her own bedstead, on her own blanket, and in the next room the idle, empty ceiling-cloth wagged light-heartedly as it
flailed on the table.
The instant after her shoulder had touched, startled by the contact, she
flailed out with her tail.
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