The 434 occurrences of brain

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So that when I shall hereafter detail to you all the specialities and concentrations of potency everywhere lurking in this expansive monster; when I shall show you some of his more inconsiderable braining feats; I trust you will have renounced all ignorant incredulity, and be ready to abide by this; that though the Sperm Whale stove a passage through the Isthmus of Darien, and mixed the Atlantic with the Pacific, you would not elevate one hair of your eye-brow.

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This other, which was evidently its mate, soon came toward us, bearing a mighty stone cudgel with which it evidently intended to brain me.

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Zounds, an I were now by this rascal, I could brain him with his lady's fan.

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Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him I' th' afternoon to sleep; there thou mayst brain him, Having first seiz'd his books; or with a log Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake, Or cut his wezand with thy knife.

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I have arranged for her to sleep; she needs it; if you disturb her without my orders, I'll brain you-if you've got the materials for it."

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What a thinking brain you have!

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Braining.]

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There thou mayst brain him.

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He said: 'Young man, I'll brain you with my walking stick if ever I meet you anywhere with my daughter, when you have not come to her home and taken her with my permission.'"

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He'll brain me, if there wasna anither woman in a' Wolf''s Hope."

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"Hout tout, silly quean," said the mother; "na, na, it's come to muckle, but it's no come to that neither; for an he brain you he maun brain me, and I have garr'd his betters stand back.

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ha!" replied Caleb,-"if your honour were to brain me, I behooved to laugh,-the Marquis-the pouther!

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Though there was no moon, I dared not venture within the lamp's rays, for her sake; for my own, I was reckless now - I would have thanked either of them to brain me with his hoe.

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Then all the flatterers and their squires cried out Solicitous, with various voice, "Go to, Old Rogue," or "Shall I brain him, my good Lord?"

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Each desperate burning brain you soothe, Or ghastly broken frame you bind, Brings one day nearer our bright goal, The love-alliance of mankind.

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The second was a deep gully, but so choked with rubble that after nearly braining myself I desisted.

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"Do you want to see anybody here, sir?" said Henry, with a defiant eye and a hostile tone, which plainly said that at any rate no one there wanted to see the person so addressed; and as he spoke he brandished aloft his garden water-pot, holding it by the spout, ready for the braining of anyone.

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With a second, split its head in two, and in its brain you will see a bright red ball.

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If I did not reverence your herald's staff, I would brain you with this club.'

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'Take the key, or I'll brain you with it'-indeed he gave him a smart tap with the handle as he spoke.

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I see your difficulty, but with a fairy brain you should seek an intellectual sphere of action.

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"Aunt Jane," said Kate, "you divine everything: what a brain you have!"

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"Monty, do you want me to brain you?" said Stewart, with the short, hard ring in his voice.

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"Lie down, you hound, or I'll brain you!" he roared at the top strength of his great voice.

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Zounds, an I were now by this rascal, I could brain him with his lady's fan.

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Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him I' th' afternoon to sleep; there thou mayst brain him, Having first seiz'd his books; or with a log Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake, Or cut his wezand with thy knife.

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What brain you have is too weak and ill-developed to deserve the name of brain.

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The good man Grangousier having heard this discourse, was ravished with admiration, considering the high reach and marvellous understanding of his son Gargantua, and said to his governesses, Philip, king of Macedon, knew the great wit of his son Alexander by his skilful managing of a horse; for his horse Bucephalus was so fierce and unruly that none durst adventure to ride him, after that he had given to his riders such devilish falls, breaking the neck of this man, the other man's leg, braining one, and putting another out of his jawbone.

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Friar John and his party kept on mincing, felling, braining, mangling, and spitting the Chitterlings like mad; but Pantagruel sounded a retreat, and all hostility ceased.

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He was cheered a little when Cash cussed back, but he did not like the sound of his voice, for all that, and so threatened mildly to brain him if he got out of bed again without wrapping a blanket or something around him.

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Two big niggers were holding his arms, and a third nigger from behind was braining him with a tomahawk.

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One result is the notorious villainousness of American cookery--a villainousness so painful to a cultured uvula that a French hack-driver, if his wife set its masterpieces before him, would brain her with his linoleum hat.

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Gerard's first impulse was to brain him with the iron bar and fly down the stairs; but the burgomaster seeing something wicked in his eye, gave a little cough, and three stout fellows, armed, showed themselves directly at the door.

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Nay, more, he winked and thrust his hand into the heap of leaves he sat on (Gerard grasped his axe ready to brain him) and produced a leathern bottle holding full two gallons.

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Her passion for old giantkind, That scaled the mount, uphurled the rock, Devolves on them who read aright Her meaning and devoutly serve; Nor in her starlessness of night Peruse her with the craven nerve: But even as she from grass to corn, To eagle high from grubbing mole, Prove in strong brain her noblest born, The station for the flight of soul.

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The sighting brain her good decree Accepts; obeys those guides, in faith, By reason hourly fed, that she, To some the clod, to some the wraith, Is more, no mask; a flame, a stream.

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He was in no mood to lie there forever, especially when he contemplated the fact that the girl spy who had tried to brain him was undoubtedly escaping as rapidly as possible.

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If the man still persists in wishing to know who it is to whom he is being introduced, the best procedure consists in simply braining him on the spot with a club or convenient slab of paving stone.

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HOW TO MYSTIFY At this point, your wife, dressed as a witch, should unexpectedly rush out at him; there is always the delightful possibility that he will pick up a convenient rock and brain her on the spot--an event which often adds an unexpected touch of gayety to the evening's fun.

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This came very near being fatal to Helen, for one of the Indians observed what she was doing, and raised his hatchet to brain her.

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an I were now by this rascal, I could brain him with his lady's fan.

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Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him I' th' afternoon to sleep: there thou may'st brain him, Having first seiz'd his books; or with a log Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake, Or cut his wezand with thy knife.

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"I'm just aching for a chance to brain you.

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Some wild design of braining him from behind with a chair flashed into her desperate mind, but when she had felt her way into Katie's room he had gone.

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"Don't you come any closer," one warned him, flourishing his club with the advertisement of braining him.

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Zounds, an I were now by this rascal, I could brain him with his lady's fan.

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Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him I' th' afternoon to sleep; there thou mayst brain him, Having first seiz'd his books; or with a log Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake, Or cut his wezand with thy knife.

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"We can't brain him first and converse with him afterward.

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"But you did your best to brain me, and that gives me a sort of right to make you useful.

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"Get out, you villain, or I'll brain you on the spot!"

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"Let us begin," said he, "by slaughtering, disembowelling, and braining the Republicans and all partisans of the government.

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He has said that it was pretty hard to resist braining the two of them at once.

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They have always been a terror to shipwrecked crews, braining the survivors with their stone-headed clubs, or shooting them with their poisoned arrows.

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With the design in her brain her busy and skilful fingers produce the pattern as she desires it, there being no sketch from which she may copy.

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And the king's men pursue them fiercely, and hack and hew, and cleave, and brain them, and call the count a traitor.

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It seemeth my pistol-butt must ha' harmed what little brain you have and you be run stark, staring mad, Martin!"

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So that when I shall hereafter detail to you all the specialities and concentrations of potency everywhere lurking in this expansive monster; when I shall show you some of his more inconsiderable braining feats; I trust you will have renounced all ignorant incredulity, and be ready to abide by this; that though the Sperm Whale stove a passage through the Isthmus of Darien, and mixed the Atlantic with the Pacific, you would not elevate one hair of your eye-brow.

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Then you can brain me with one of the crutches, if you wish," and Van Berg related to Stanton substantially all that occurred between himself and Jennie Burton.

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Odd, his father would brain him if he went to Carloisle, bating to wrestling for the belt, or sic loike.

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"Not a word here or I'll... brain you!"

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At last I shook my fist in his ugly face, and told him as a cousin I'd brain him.

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These captives had been taken by the Kiowas near Fort Lyon the previous summer, and kept close prisoners until the stampede began, the poor woman being reserved to gratify the brutal lust of the chief, Satanta; then, however, Indian vengeance demanded the murder of the poor creatures, and after braining the little child against a tree, the mother was shot through the forehead, the weapon, which no doubt brought her welcome release, having been fired so close that the powder had horribly disfigured her face.

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So that when I shall hereafter detail to you all the specialities and concentrations of potency everywhere lurking in this expansive monster; when I shall show you some of his more inconsiderable braining feats; I trust you will have renounced all ignorant incredulity, and be ready to abide by this; that though the Sperm Whale stove a passage through the Isthmus of Darien, and mixed the Atlantic with the Pacific, you would not elevate one hair of your eye-brow.

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"Get up, you idiot," he said, sternly, "or I'll brain you with this inkstand.

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This woman is, as I believe, the wife of the 'Wild Man of Puttenham,' and this is the 'Wild Man' himself who set upon me and tried to brain me with his club."

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"There is no such thing, and, even if there were, if the oracle is not your own brain you can always find out anything you want to know."

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"There is no such thing, and, even if there were, if the oracle is not your own brain you can always find out anything you want to know."

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You have been flaying your correspondent alive with your incorporeal pen; you have been braining him, disemboweling him, carving him into little bits, and then--doing it all over again.

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You have been flaying your correspondent alive with your incorporeal pen; you have been braining him, disemboweling him, carving him into little bits, and then--doing it all over again.

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Trying to impose your vile second-hand carcasses on us!--thunder and lightning, I've a notion to--to--if you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!--or by George we'll brain you!"

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What a brain you have got!

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Trying to impose your vile second-hand carcasses on us!--thunder and lightning, I've a notion to--to--if you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!--or by George we'll brain you!"

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The keen little axe struck the victim in a perpendicular line with the nose, directly between the eyes, literally braining him on the spot.

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The oar was struck an instant later and ere it snapped off it was flung back, braining one of the slaves at the bench and mortally injuring the others, but passing clean over the heads of Sir Oliver and Yusuf.

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At the same instant Oliver became conscious that a man in blue overalls was creeping up on the soldier's rear to brain him with a cart-rung that he held in his hand.

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Cecil leaned a while silently against one of the great gnarled trunks, and Rake affected to busy himself with the mare; in his heart was a tumult of rage, a volcano of curiosity, a pent-up storm of anxious amaze, but he would have let Mother o' Pearl brain him with a kick of her iron plates rather than press a single look that should seem like doubt, or seem like insult in adversity to his fallen master.

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Brain him!"

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PADDY--And there was Yank roarin' curses and turning round wid his shovel to brain her--and she looked at him, and him at her-- YANK--[_Slowly._] She was all white.

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YANK--[_Fiercely._] I'll brain her!

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I'll brain her yet, wait 'n' see!

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Round the church they fight without quarter, shooting face to face, stabbing with unfixed bayonets, and braining with the butts of muskets.

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"Well, if I was Phillips I'd like to keep you at a civil distance just at present, for you look as like to brain him as not."

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thou shalt not live to ask an usurer bread, to cry at a great mans gate, or follow, good your honour, by a Couch; no, nor your brother; tis charity to brain you.

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These captives had been taken by the Kiowas near Fort Lyon the previous summer, and kept close prisoners until the stampede began, the poor woman being reserved to gratify the brutal lust of the chief, Satanta; then, however, Indian vengeance demanded the murder of the poor creatures, and after braining the little child against a tree, the mother was shot through the forehead, the weapon, which no doubt brought her welcome release, having been fired so close that the powder had horribly disfigured her face.

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"I guess that was nigh braining the child," quoth Miss Amanda, with the greatest coolness, and without making the least apology.

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She is a generous woman, a magnanimous woman; wear her chains and she will not brain you with her club.

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She is a generous woman, a magnanimous woman; wear her chains and she will not brain you with her club.

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'Does its business without braining.'

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'Does its business without braining.'

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The end in design is to win the ear by making a fuss, and roll event upon event for the braining of common intelligence, until her narrative resembles dusty troopings along a road to the races.

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The end in design is to win the ear by making a fuss, and roll event upon event for the braining of common intelligence, until her narrative resembles dusty troopings along a road to the races.

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She is a generous woman, a magnanimous woman; wear her chains and she will not brain you with her club.

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'Does its business without braining.'

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The end in design is to win the ear by making a fuss, and roll event upon event for the braining of common intelligence, until her narrative resembles dusty troopings along a road to the races.

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Her passion for old giantkind, That scaled the mount, uphurled the rock, Devolves on them who read aright Her meaning and devoutly serve; Nor in her starlessness of night Peruse her with the craven nerve: But even as she from grass to corn, To eagle high from grubbing mole, Prove in strong brain her noblest born, The station for the flight of soul.

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The sighting brain her good decree Accepts; obeys those guides, in faith, By reason hourly fed, that she, To some the clod, to some the wraith, Is more, no mask; a flame, a stream.

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"Go an' shtop that fool's noise if yees brain him, an' ax him what's the name o' that divil's jig he's playing!" exclaimed Mrs. Ginniss as she caught sight of the boy; and Teddy, without stopping for a question, hastily obeyed.

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Occasionally, Cherry insisted upon making Pantalon join in the dance; and the somewhat sombre face of the Italian would ripple all over with laughter as he watched her efforts to subdue the creature's motions to grace and harmony, and to cultivate in his bestial brain her own innate love of those divine gifts.

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He struck Shurd a blow that staggered him, and would have followed it up with more had not the man, suddenly furious, plunged away to pick up a heavy stake with which he made at Neale to brain him.

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