The 91 occurrences of beat (one's) brains out

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The roar of one falling tower followed another-I gave up thought of life; and deeming it a dishonour to one of my profession to pass out of this world in company with a Jew, I heaved up my halberd to beat his brains out; but I took pity on his grey hairs, and judged it better to lay down the partisan, and take up my spiritual weapon for his conversion.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,882   ~   ~   ~

I have seen two divisions beating their brains out for a fortnight against a worthless and quite impregnable castle in a pass: I knew we were only doing it for discipline, because the General had said so at first, and had not yet found any way out of his own words; and I highly admired his force of character, and throughout these operations thought my life exposed in a very good cause.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 587   ~   ~   ~

"But if they had hurt you, I would beat their brains out with my hands.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,523   ~   ~   ~

He has it; and by fits and starts applies himself to labour; but every now and then there comes upon him a burning sense of the years that must be wasted in that stone coffin, and an agony so piercing in the recollection of those who are hidden from his view and knowledge, that he starts from his seat, and striding up and down the narrow room with both hands clasped on his uplifted head, hears spirits tempting him to beat his brains out on the wall.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,178   ~   ~   ~

Arter I was locked up for the night, the row and din outside made the thundering old jail so silent, that I could almost have beat my brains out against the iron plates of the door.'

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,093   ~   ~   ~

'I'd do something in the jail that 'ud get me put in irons; and if I was tried along with you, I'd fall upon you with them in the open court, and beat your brains out afore the people.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 11,044   ~   ~   ~

I think the man that knocked his head against the wall of his cell the day he was sentenced and beat his brains out in this very gaol had the best of it.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,382   ~   ~   ~

"An I were once rid of this peril," thought he, "and if any man shall find me playing squire of the body to a damosel-errant, he shall have leave to beat my brains out with my own sledge-hammer!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,816   ~   ~   ~

"I knew mine was finest," he said; "if that knave Doublestitch had brought me home such a simple doublet as that of Raleigh's, I would have beat his brains out with his own pressing-iron.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,717   ~   ~   ~

For a moment he doubted whether or no to fly at Melanthius and kill him with his staff, or fling him to the ground and beat his brains out; he resolved, however, to endure it and keep himself in check, but the swineherd looked straight at Melanthius and rebuked him, lifting up his hands and praying to heaven as he did so.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,196   ~   ~   ~

"Order Gilles to beat their brains out," was Ganymede's merciful suggestion.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 727   ~   ~   ~

The Waterbury showed up 11.30, now, and I beat her brains out against the bedstead.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 279   ~   ~   ~

The fellow was in fact crazy about her beauty and ready to beat his brains out in chagrin.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 9,769   ~   ~   ~

Someone who overheard this reported it to the gang, and they set upon the unfortunate gaoler yesterday, and beat his brains out with their shovels.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,427   ~   ~   ~

"Stand back!" he cried; "or by God and His saints, I'll beat your brains out."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,540   ~   ~   ~

"You--with your hair down, and fighting a bunch of men who look as though they were about to beat your brains out with clubs!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,592   ~   ~   ~

"I ought to beat your brains out, and--I believe I will!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 896   ~   ~   ~

Son of sixteen, Pluck the lin'd crutch from thy old limping sire, And with it beat his brains out!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 265   ~   ~   ~

Well, it so happened that it was upon one of their nights of performing that I found myself, with Mr. Burke, a spectator of their proceedings; I had fallen into an easy slumber, while a dreadful row in the box lobby roused me from my dream, and the loud cry of 'turn him out,' 'pitch him over,' 'beat his brains out,' and other humane proposals of the like nature, effectually restored me to consciousness; I rushed out of the box into the lobby, and there, to my astonishment, in the midst of a considerable crowd, beheld my friend, Mr. Burke, belaboring the box-keeper with all his might with a cotton umbrella of rather unpleasant proportions, accompanying each blow with an exclamation of 'well, are they Connaughtmen, now, you rascal, eh?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 267   ~   ~   ~

Well, it so happened that it was upon one of their nights of performing that I found myself, with Mr. Burke, a spectator of their proceedings; I had fallen into an easy slumber, while a dreadful row in the box lobby roused me from my dream, and the loud cry of 'turn him out,' 'pitch him over,' 'beat his brains out,' and other humane proposals of the like nature, effectually restored me to consciousness; I rushed out of the box into the lobby, and there, to my astonishment, in the midst of a considerable crowd, beheld my friend, Mr. Burke, belaboring the box-keeper with all his might with a cotton umbrella of rather unpleasant proportions, accompanying each blow with an exclamation of 'well, are they Connaughtmen, now, you rascal, eh?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,819   ~   ~   ~

When Bill Henderson wanted to build the logging railroad which he afterward sold to Pennington, and which Pennington is now using as a club to beat our brains out, did he have the money to build it?"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 725   ~   ~   ~

The Waterbury showed up 11.30, now, and I beat her brains out against the bedstead.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 279   ~   ~   ~

The fellow was in fact crazy about her beauty and ready to beat his brains out in chagrin.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,646   ~   ~   ~

"D--n her, strike her down--silence her--beat her brains out!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,383   ~   ~   ~

If it were not that I hold you mad, and perhaps made so by some wrong sustained, you should find my being weaponless were no protection, I would beat your brains out against the wall."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 730   ~   ~   ~

I'd--I'd beat your brains out.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,427   ~   ~   ~

What Jenison wants now is to get hold of Ikey and beat his brains out.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,169   ~   ~   ~

Faustus, the deacon, makes them a speech; charges the leader of the robbers, like young David, with a stone, beats his brains out therewith, strips him in true Homeric fashion, and routs the Ausurians with their leader's sword; returns and erects a trophy in due classic form, and saves the whole valley.'

~   ~   ~   Sentence 159   ~   ~   ~

She nearly got you, didn't she, before you managed to beat her brains out?"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,722   ~   ~   ~

"It stifles you very slowly, with beautiful silk bands.... America beats your brains out with a policeman's billy."

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Looking up I saw a tall rebel straddling above him with musket clubb'd to beat his brains out: whom with an effort I caught by the boot; and, the bank slipping at that instant, down we all slid in a heap, a jumble of arms and legs, to the very bottom.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,211   ~   ~   ~

The squire now regained the liberty of his hands, and so much temper as to express some satisfaction in the restraint which had been laid upon him; declaring that he should certainly have beat his brains out; and adding, "It would have vexed one confoundedly to have been hanged for such a rascal."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,348   ~   ~   ~

These persons, who have openly sold themselves to Philip, you must execrate, you must beat their brains out: for it is impossible, I say impossible, to vanquish your foreign enemies, until you have punished your enemies within the city: these are the stumbling-blocks that must cripple your efforts against the foreigner.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 648   ~   ~   ~

"I tell you you shall come to no harm; but if you will not leave the road and come with us, d-n me, but I'll beat your brains out where you stand."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 648   ~   ~   ~

"I tell you you shall come to no harm; but if you will not leave the road and come with us, d-n me, but I'll beat your brains out where you stand."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 8,837   ~   ~   ~

"I should die in any case, you see, Amélie, even though I had to beat my brains out against the wall; but I should die dishonored."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,214   ~   ~   ~

_Lory._ Egad, sir, this will prove some enchanted castle; we shall have the giant come out by-and-by, with his club, and beat our brains out.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,126   ~   ~   ~

"There was one opening that served for air, and a savage, seeing the boys had forgotten to barricade it, tried to push himself through, an' not succeeding, tried to back out, but at that instant Bill caught him by the wrist--Bill was a powerful man--and picking up a beaver-trap that laid on the floor, actually beat his brains out with it.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,376   ~   ~   ~

Dora sank down with a groan, and in another minute Lomax was dashing his head against the wall, vowing that he would beat his brains out.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,268   ~   ~   ~

All cow-boys are not sanguinary; but out of twenty you will generally find one who is brave when he has his revolvers with him; but when he forgot and left his shooters at home on the piano, the most tropical violet-eyed dude can climb him with the butt-end of a sunflower, and beat his brains out and spatter them all over that school district.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,336   ~   ~   ~

He'll be beating my brains out av I couldn't explain it all."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,480   ~   ~   ~

At this the princess lost all patience, and catching her nurse by the hair of her head, and giving her two or three sound cuffs, she cried, 'You shall tell me where this young man is, old sorceress, or I will beat your brains out.'

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,124   ~   ~   ~

"But I think he looks as if he was beating his brains out there among his books--I tell him he is getting the blues, living in that big house by himself."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 9,352   ~   ~   ~

"Mr. Evelyn, my dear," said Constance gravely,--"makes a futile attempt semi-weekly to beat his brains out with a club; and every successive failure encourages him to try again; the only effect being a temporary decapitation of his family; and I believe this is the night on which he periodically turns a frigid eye upon their destitution."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,160   ~   ~   ~

"No," he cried, with a sudden tone of triumph, "not Joseph Wilmot, but Stephen Vallance--Blackguard Steeve, the forger--the man who escaped from Norfolk Island, after murdering one of the gaolers--beating his brains out with an iron, if I remember right.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,438   ~   ~   ~

I will beat your brains out first!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 581   ~   ~   ~

And when he and the sorcerer met, both breathing flame, the people knew not which to follow; but when Abdallah walked over nine hot ploughshares, and the sorcerer could not touch one of them, they beat his brains out, and became Abdallah's disciples.

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I vow, that if you offer to contend one moment with me, I will treat thee to the same fare as I did the mastiff;" and when he found it was not done, he arose, seized him by the legs, and dashing him against the wall, actually beat his brains out, showing even more rage than against the poor mastiff.

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CHAPTER III A BELLE OF METTLE "For let me tell you, gentlemen, courage is the whole mystery of making love, and of more use than conduct is in war; for the bravest fellow in Europe may beat his brains out against the stubborn walls of a town--but "Women born to be controll'd, Stoop to the forward and the bold."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 8,618   ~   ~   ~

It is true that "the Indians debated together, and presently two big stones were placed before the chiefs, and Smith was dragged thither and his head laid upon them;" and that "even while warriors were standing with clubs in hand, to beat his brains out, the chief's young daughter Pocahontas rushed up and embraced him, whereupon her father spared his life."

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Look you, sir, to shoot a man with a blunderbuss, or to stab him with a knife, is quite another kind of business; but to beat his brains out with a stone is to treat him, not like a Christian, but a dog!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,212   ~   ~   ~

It seemed that our civility had as usual inspired these savages with a desire to beat our brains out while asleep, and we were thankful that in effecting their cowardly designs they had been once more unsuccessful.

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Some days later the lieutenant sentenced him to be scourged through the city, and then hanged by the neck; and Messer Amerigo, being minded that one and the same hour should rid the earth of the two lovers and their son (for to have compassed Pietro's death was not enough to appease his wrath), mingled poison and wine in a goblet, and gave it to one of his servants with a drawn sword, saying:--"Get thee with this gear to Violante, and tell her from me to make instant choice of one of these two deaths, either the poison or the steel; else, I will have her burned, as she deserves, in view of all the citizens; which done, thou wilt take the boy that she bore a few days ago, and beat his brains out against the wall, and cast his body for a prey to the dogs."

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She tried to regain possession of it, but during the struggle Golpin beat her brains out with a bar of iron that was in the room.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,900   ~   ~   ~

I thought he was for beatin' my brains out, an' I up with my gun and fired.

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'That's not true, and you haven't much to talk of; after beating your brains out you only just got the prize for composition.

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His successor in the tyranny, Giovanni Vignate, was imprisoned by Filippo Maria Visconti in a wooden cage at Pavia, and beat his brains out in despair against its bars.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,394   ~   ~   ~

When he is seriously sick his legal successor steals quietly into his house, and beats his brains out, or strangles him to death.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,323   ~   ~   ~

"They beat his brains out, gents," she screamed--"beat the brains out of the husband that had just come home to me after roamin' the wide world over.

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Pressure is brought to bear on us from the seat of the national government; the President sends us a message to proceed cautiously, and our loyalty to the sisterhood of states is used as a club to beat our brains out.

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She'd get out or she'd beat her brains out against the wall."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,885   ~   ~   ~

A United States Consul reported that he saw helpless people brained with clubs, while children were killed by beating their brains out against the rocks.

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I will beat your brains out.'

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"But I think he looks as if he was beating his brains out there among his books.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,728   ~   ~   ~

"Mr. Evelyn, my dear," said Constance, gravely, "makes a futile attempt semi-weekly to beat his brains out with a club; and every successive failure encourages him to try again; the only effect being a temporary decapitation of his family; and I believe this is the night on which he periodically turns a frigid eye upon their destitution."

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Why didn't you read my thoughts when I beat my brains out trying to explain that thrust problem the other night?"

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Then said the captain, "He is a Quaker; I will beat his brains out."

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Pawnee Brown had Yellow Elk by the throat and across the back, while the Indian held his antagonist by the shoulder with one hand, while trying to beat his brains out with the pistol that was in the other.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,727   ~   ~   ~

If I were to beat your brains out with the butt of this pistol I should only be treating you as you deserve!

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"At all events that is the road which I took with him just now, for I pinned him down to the cabin deck, and threatened to beat his brains out.

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She tried to regain possession of it, but during the struggle Golpin beat her brains out with a bar of iron that was in the room.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,083   ~   ~   ~

I was met by one of the overseers, who was armed, and who would have stopped me: I beat his brains out with his own musket, and then gained the woods.

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Be more practical than beating our brains out.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,873   ~   ~   ~

He could remember trying to hold off the windshield from beating his brains out, but---- He opened his eyes.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,840   ~   ~   ~

"Silence, sirrah!" exclaimed the gentleman, "or I will beat your brains out with your own spade."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 954   ~   ~   ~

And you'd be getting one from me something in this way: 'If I don't screw up the two measly cents' worth of courage I've got, and go right across to Steve, and put the proposition Millie and I are crazy to make, why--why, Millie'll beat my brains out with a flat iron, and generally make things eternally unpleasant.'

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,936   ~   ~   ~

Hurl yourself against the mighty system of business that has slowly built itself through the centuries out of such material and you simply beat your brains out against a granite wall."

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Often he diverted himself by a mad frolic in his cage; from place to place he went half flying, and scarcely touching anything; back and forth, with great flutter of wings and great noise; up and down, under and over and around his perches, in the same wild way, so that it seemed as if he must beat his brains out.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 669   ~   ~   ~

"But if they had hurt you, I would beat their brains out with my hands, I would kill them all.

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Suppose I hadn't beat my brains out to get into hype-training?

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With magnificent audacity, infinite patience, and remorseless zeal, a conquered people were struggling to turn his own weapon against their conqueror, and beat his brains out with the bludgeon he had placed in the hands of their former slaves.

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He would let her know who should govern, and by way of supporting his authority, beat her brains out with the last remaining stick of wood.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,002   ~   ~   ~

It 'peared like it tried to beat his brains out every time he taken a swaller of licker--or even water.

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"Death will come, but not quickly,--unless you beat your brains out against the bars of your cage, and before that you will shriek and call for me, but I will not come.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,022   ~   ~   ~

"There's no use beating your brains out trying to get the NBSD to pay attention," Fenwick told Ellerbee.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,319   ~   ~   ~

Then while he was looking for something to beat her brains out with, she got up and run into the pantry and locked the door.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,226   ~   ~   ~

And if he hadn't married her, he wouldn't have been placed in a position where he had to beat her brains out.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,576   ~   ~   ~

He set the victuals upon the floor, and then, brandishing the bludgeon over my head, threatened to beat my brains out if I made such a noise again--giving, in pure cruelty and wantonness of power, a few blows across the shoulders, to teach me, as he said, what I might expect if I did not attend to his orders.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 379   ~   ~   ~

Are you _really_ still at it--beating your brains out against that stone wall?"

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She said she'd either give them free rein or beat their brains out."

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"Let me beat my brains out if I am in your way.

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