A further account of catchpoles who were drubbed at Basche's house Chapter 4.
A further account of catchpoles who were drubbed at Basche's house.
But this I plainly perceive, that he cited me like an angel, and drubbed me like a devil.
When he was attacked he hid his face in his arm and bawled, leaning his arm against any convenient fence or tree, while his tormentor drubbed his back at pleasure.
He, Mike Murphy, had bullied the Governor--had drubbed him and chased him and worried the life out of him.
It was not easy to believe that the Red Head who had drubbed him a hundred times, and who scorned him as a cry-baby, should seek to defend him.
The captain was relieved of his manacles and shoved into his berth, where he slept off his valorous propensities, and awoke a few hours afterwards a different man, who could hardly be drubbed into a plot which would endanger his own life.
A dispute occurred in a billiard room; the Frenchman used some insolent and irritating language, and, instead of being soundly drubbed on the spot, was challenged by the naval officer.
The host on his part opined, that all this did not justify any fisty-cuffs; to which the amateur replied, that mine host did not know the malicious fellow, or he would willingly allow his back to bedrubbed black and blue.
And I drubbed my cousin--I paid him with his own stick.
I am always glad that I drubbed my cousin, just once.
Besides, had I notdrubbed my cousin Matthew and that, as they say, with authority?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drubbed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
