The 434 occurrences of brain
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It was not impossible that tomorrow she would give Bateese permission to brain him.
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He felt the thrill of her hand on his forehead, her kiss, and in his brain her softly spoken words repeated themselves over and over again, "I think that if you lived very long I should love you."
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Pray tell me whether by the BRAIN you mean any sensible thing.
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He was reserved for a better fate than to die like a neglected dog: Mr. Lashworthy was hanged for braining a minister of the Gospel with a boot-jack.
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By thy most killing sneer, and by thy smile-- By all the arts and snares of thy black den, _50 And--for thou canst outweep the crocodile-- By thy false tears--those millstones braining men-- 14.
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By thy most killing sneer, and by thy smile-- By all the arts and snares of thy black den, _50 And--for thou canst outweep the crocodile-- By thy false tears--those millstones braining men-- 14.
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Dark close place 'tween-decks, with the steers bellowin' and all parked tight together, and the stiffs gettin' seasick--so seasick we just kind of staggered around; and we'd get hold of a head rope and yank and then let go, and the bosses, d yell, 'Pull, or I'll brain you.'
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The former said, shortly: "If you make a move I'll brain you!"
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O'Reilly, stupefied by the sudden appearance of this monstrous creature, stunned by the certainty of a catastrophe to Rosa, awoke to the fact that this man intended to brain him where he stood.
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"Do you think I do not know that if there were not something moving in your brain you would think no more of that clerk, that bourgeois estate agent, than of the door-mat beneath your feet?
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"Down wi' your pikes," he roared to his companions, "or I'll brain you wi' them."
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I continued to see elephant--nothing but elephant!--little bloodshot eyes aflame with frenzy--great tusks upthrown--a trunk upraised to brain me--huge flat feet that raged to tread me down and knead me into purple mud!
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"Don't move, little men," whispered a voice, "or I'll brain you both!"
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I had to brain him wi' a rackpin; there was nae doin' wi' him.
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"Oh, an' ye's wan uv us, oi'll stan' by ye; but oi've got me eye on ye, and 'ud think no more o' brainin' ye than a puppy."
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"Try brainin' the cops first, if yer know when yer well off," replied Merwyn, drawing a pistol.
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"Brain me if I do not do my whole duty," was the firm reply; and he took his place at the right of the front rank.
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I shall get rid of you if the beadle has to brain you with the mace for it [she makes for the tower].
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So may I gain while I live, and die well; but the people will brain me if I follow not that coat on thy back, which is not for thy wearing, where-ever thou goest: He's a precious tool too, whoever he were, that taught thee; a piece of green cheese, no master.
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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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"I'm just aching for a chance to brain you.
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she said they two had been colloguing together by moonlight, and you came home in the midst, and Miss Kendal fainted away, so he catches up the ink and throws it over her instead of water, and you and Mr. Kendal came in and were mad entirely; and Mr. Kendal threatened to brain him with the poker if he did not quit it that instant, and sent Gilbert for a soldier for opening the door to him, but you and Lucy went down on your bare knees to get him to relent.'
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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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He was pleased to threaten to brain me with a chicken-bone, as he disdainfully expressed it; but the King said, 'George, you have but a Rowland for an Oliver.'
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I'll brain you with this weight!
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"Hands down before I brain you!"
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"Then, by Heaven, I'll brain you!"
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We beat him over the head; we spiked him; we even tried to brain him; but he held her, as a bull-dog would hold a cat, until she was dead.
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'You great gaby!' wept the wife, 'if you had an ounce of sense in your brain you'd think of some plan to get out of the scrape!'
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It is the most needed improvement of the age for air-craft and--" "Oh, you are like all crazy inventors," brutally blurted out Malvoise, "every idea that enters your cracked brain you think is the greatest improvement of the age, as you say.
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Old fishermen ran down to the wharf for which the _Spray_ was heading, apparently intent upon braining herself there.
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"If any one wishes it, I'll pick a quarrel, and I'll brain him."
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If I did not reverence your herald's staff, I would brain you with this club."
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I had to brain him wi' a rack-pin; there was nae doin' wi' him.
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I believe these two men will follow; and if they find us sleeping, they will brain us."
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For himself, he had a pair of Colt's revolvers; but before he could fire twice the savages would be enabled to brain him with their tomahawks.
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"I'd-- I'd brain you!
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The other night Mrs. Boyzy, as she slipped one of the little stockings off the wooden ball, which has served our children for so many years and so many purposes--from filling out a croquet set, to the braining of their parents--her kindly, and to me still beautiful face, lighting up with a smile, said: "We are having a real gay winter in Staunton, dear."
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The poor Frenchman was warned that if he didn't bring out a nice, fresh corpse at once, they would brain him!
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In a house at Ossossané, a young Indian rushed suddenly upon François Du Peron, and lifted his tomahawk to brain him, when a squaw caught his hand.
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Eight Algonquins, in one of those fits of desperate valor which sometimes occur in Indians, entered at midnight a camp where thirty or forty Iroquois warriors were buried in sleep, and with quick, sharp blows of their tomahawks began to brain them as they lay.
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They loaded the rest of their prisoners with their baggage and plunder, and drove them through the forest southward, braining with their hatchets any who gave out on the march.
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To the second convict-orderly who came running to meet him Hogarth hissed: "Not a word--or I brain you with this!
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"Gien ane o' ye muv han' or fit, I'll brain him wi' 's ain stick," he cried, as he wrenched a cudgel from the grasp of one of them.
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"'No,' says I, 'they won't: for I will not let that scamp of a Marquis send me out of the world; and if he lays a hand on me, I'll brain him, Marquis as he is.'
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"Now," said the Irish sergeant, "I could brain you, but it is not worth while!"
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Quincy had an inclination to brain him with the telephone stand, but restrained his murderous impulse.
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Neb, stand here close beside the door, and if any one tries to come in brain him with your gun-stock.
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"And don't look at me like that" (for he feared the evil eye), "or I'll brain you with my staff!"
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Not satisfied with two abortive trials, the third attempt must be made to brain me, and repeating the same motions, with a great "Ugh!" he seemed to put all his strength into the blow, which, like the others, missed, and spent its force in the earth.
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"Rube he took an axe, and stood right under the hole in the roof, so that if any of the devils got in he could brain them.
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I had to brain him wi' a rack-pin; there was nae doing wi' him.
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I've a notion to--to--if you've got a nice, fresh corpse fetch him out!--or we'll brain you!"
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I bawl out, for I was very angry; 'and if Lintot offers her any liberty, I'll brain him with his own pestle!'
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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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If you are really a brain-worker, will you kindly inform the writer whose brain you are working now, and how you like it as far as you have gone?
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The old man dropped a chap dead at two hundred yards as he was braining me."
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The old man dropped a chap dead at two hundred yards as he was braining me."
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"And make sure that I never see you here again, for I'll brain you!"
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"Captain Sharkey," said Sweetlocks, "you have mishandled many of us, and you have now pistolled John Masters, besides killing Bartholomew, the carpenter, by braining him with a bucket.
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'My dear John, what a brain you have for conjuring up awful possibilities!
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"---- ---- ----!" shouted the man, "if you don't clear right out, I'll brain you" He held suspended in the air a full soda water bottle, one of the heaviest.
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Utter that name here and I will brain you," hissed the man, suddenly, furiously, half rising to his feet.
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"If a man speaks before I address him, I'll brain him!" shouted Madden.
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Both men ducked instinctively, to escape a braining.
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Not another inch, you contemptible whelp, or I'll brain you!...
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"'No,' says I, 'they won't: for I will not let that scamp of a marquis send me out of the world; and if he lays a hand on me, I'll brain him, marquis as he is.'
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You didn't stick at braining those others--" "Hardly the same thing.
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Just as in your brain you reason things for and against, wondering which is right and waiting for time and experience to decide; so God reasons one way through _your_ brain and another and opposite way through _my_ brain, and then rests and observes until the "logic of events" shall show _him_, and us, the point of real harmony.
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I had to brain him wi' a rack-pin; there was nae doin' wi' him.
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I had to brain him wi' a rack-pin; there was nae doin' wi' him.
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She has not failed to you until this hour, When she was not herself for one brief space, Mad with the fever in her heated brain You long have known I loved her,--none could well Withhold the tribute of his life from her,-- And you must know, my lord, beyond all doubt, I loved her with a love that honoured you In thought, in word, in purpose, and in deed.
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Whenever they came in view we acted a little piece for them, making Rene wave the white cloth while I protected him and held off Mabel and Grim, who went through the motions of trying to brain me with pistol butts.
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The three men, whom Jarvis had singled out as "'eathen from another tribe," became so insulting that Dave could scarcely restrain Jarvis from braining their leader on the spot.
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At the first sound of his voice his three comrades rush forward; but Groves, recognising them, says hoarsely, "Back, every one of you but those I called, or I'll brain you!
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'We are lost,' cries Elzevir; 'it is the Posse; but if we die, this traitor shall go before us,' and he makes towards Maskew to brain him with the pistol.
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"It isn't your brain you feel, Colin.
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Perhaps," he went on, still talking quite quietly, "if you knew what a hell there is in my heart and brain you would not treat me so.
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Carroll, if you didn't work on it, I'd brain you!
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A brain you do not need.
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Out of the way, McGregor, or I'll brain you.'
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Did he brain her with the clock?
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The delicate and divine sprites, that should bear the behests of the soul to the will and to the houses of thought in the brain her intuitions, are crowded out from the streets of the cerebral cities by the mob and trample of messengers bound upon baser errands; and thus is the soul deprived of service, and the man of inspiration.
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They ain't even ordinary cut-throats--they're sneaks in the bargain; an' if they could walk in our camp, smilin' an' friendly, and brain us when our backs was turned, they'd do it.
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A hairy arm reached out and pushed my head back, and after that, whenever I made the least movement, a man who was sniping from behind the sheltering rock swore furiously, and threatened to brain me with his butt-end.
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If you open your face to me again, I'll brain you, and that goes for all of this death-watch."
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They found it heavy--no slight matter-- But tugg'd, and tugg'd it, till the clatter 'Woke Hercules, who in a trice Whipt up the knaves, and with a splice, He kept on purpose--which before Had served for giants many a score-- To end of Club tied each rogue's head fast; Strapping feet too, to keep them steadfast; And pickaback them carries townwards, Behind his brawny back head-downwards, (So foolish calf--for rhyme I bless X-- Comes _nolens volens_ out of Essex); Thinking to brain them with his _dextra_, Or string them up upon the next tree.
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"And for well-nigh braining an officer of his Majesty's infantry!" said old Major Elliott, putting his head over the hedge.
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"Good," murmured the old Arab, "now brain him as he comes up--and secure his body."
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At the sound of a footfall or the soft creak of a plank I felt that I might lose all control and leap up and brain him with the heavy bottle in my grasp.
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_Landor_.--Be civil, Mr. North, or I will brain you.
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An iron hand had drawn him out into the day, and it was the same iron hand that kept his face to the mountains now, while in his brain her voice repeated the words that had set his world on fire.
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The only hint at an explanation I have been able to find is contained in the following citation from Haddon: "If an unmarried woman desired a man she accosted him, but the man did not ask the woman (at least, so I was informed), for if she refused him he would feel ashamed, and maybe brain her with a stone club, and so 'he would kill her for nothing.'"
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"Say that again and I'll brain you--pawdon me, I should say, I'll smash your head in.
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If he stood here, I would brain him with yonder staff; and if my curse could follow him beyond the grave--as my vengeance shall to the grave's brink--he should perish in eternal fire!
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The blood flowing from the wounds on the priest's head appeared to infuriate and blind the heart of Delfin who, rising from his victim's body, sped away to the armory in the court house, seized a rifle, and came back furious to brain him with the butt and finish killing the priest; but God willed to free his servant from death at the hands of those cannibals, so that generous Lieutenant Navarro interfered, took the rifle away from him and caught Delfin by the arm, threatening him with some words spoken in Tagalog.
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"Here, a president stabs a man, perhaps the most honest of the village, simply for having implored mercy for a creature arbitrarily inflicted with the _cepo_ [an oblong square piece of heavy wood divided into two parts, with a lock at each end and six or more holes in the middle to confine the feet of prisoners]; there, a dying man, suspended by the feet in a _cepo_, raised from the level of the ground, by another president who has charged him with an unproved crime; there a poor woman falsely charged and driven by petty officers with their bayonets for having objected to their invasion into her house, or shop, they being supposed to be, each, Justice itself, '_Justicia_,' and to be obeyed as images of the Gods; there, generals who murder without fear, for an insignificant motive, creatures whose members are being mutilated, or their flesh cut in slices and afterwards roasted and given them to eat; there, officers braining a girl who has refused to accede to their sensual wishes, the lifeless body of the victim, pierced with shots, after having been made use of, is thrown into the river.
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It is not unusual to witness officers burying people alive in a tomb prepared by the victim, by order of the murderer; it is not unusual to see a _Puisne_-Judge pointing a revolver at a man who is about to give evidence, and threatening to brain him for having dared to ask: 'Why and to whom am I to declare?'
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A rescue was impossible, for the savages were numerous, watchful, and merciless, and in case they were likely to lose her they would brain her.