The 434 occurrences of brain
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Indian warfare is not a thing of grandeur at its best, but when it degenerates into the braining of children, the bayoneting of women, the mutilation of old men, it is a horror without parallel; and the amazing thing is that the white men, who painted themselves as Indians and helped to wage this war, were so sure they were doing God's work that they used to kneel and pray before beginning the butchery.
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Carefully consider your own powers of memory and see whether you can decide which of the four types of brain you have.
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"And, more than that, if you say another word about--her, I'll brain you, sick or well!"
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His blow knocked the foreman down, but Peg rolled away and was on his feet again with remarkable quickness, and went at his adversary determined to brain him.
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"Give them to me, or I'll brain you, Holmes," said I, standing over him with a soda-water bottle gripped in my right hand, "for your own good.
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"I am not so sure that I shall get out of the country; for I often feel disposed to brain you, when you won't let me alone; and I fear that, one of these days, I may give way to the impulse."
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But with a great effort, she passed him, and, violently throwing up the end of her staff, caused a great rock to rise with such promptness, that the Prince came within an inch of braining himself against it.
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Austill was knocked down into the Indian boat, and an Indian was about to put him to death when Smith saved him by braining the savage.
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Not even"--he lifted a hand against interruption--"if you knew you had the brain you think Ferguson had.
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Oh the demons, they were cackling while he sat devouring a great moose joint, until he was close to braining them with the yellow ball of the joint.
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"_What_ a brain you've got, Lola!
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Come outside and shout, or I'll brain you with your own spoons."
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But upon the first attempt to raise his voice, brain him with the belaying-pin.
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Then, quick as thought, he swung up the huge club again, with the evident determination to brain me.
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We toiled raw-handed, worn-out and savage, and he drove us all the harder when one of the boys tried to brain him."
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Then, as the big locomotive slowly pulled them out, some of his new companions vituperated the station-agent for stopping them, and one came near braining him with a deftly-flung bottle when he retaliated.
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Then silence again, and a great dread fell upon the listeners, whose active brains suggested the creeping up of treacherous blacks to brain people who were in ignorance of their presence.
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My dear boy, what a brain you have!"
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We won't brain them, as they would have brained us, and maybe the lesson we thus give them will teach them that the religion of the white-faces is better than that of the red-skins."
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She would not be conscious then, and I doubt your fierce little Commissioner would go to the unethical limits of dead-braining a live woman.
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Dead-braining him had produced no further relevant information.
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"Brain him with that big stone.
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"I'd rather brain him than anyone else I know, but that would leave that gigantic gorilla to ... why, he'd ... listen, you'll simply _have_ to go armed."
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This was an easy matter with a man Oft in the wrong, and never on his guard; And even the wisest, do the best they can, Have moments, hours, and days, so unprepared, That you might 'brain them with their lady's fan;' And sometimes ladies hit exceeding hard, And fans turn into falchions in fair hands, And why and wherefore no one understands.
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Soon after that the boat was manned by as many of the crew as it could contain, and an exploring party went to the spot where Captain Trench and his companions had been landed, guided thereto by Swinton, and led by his foe Grummidge, whose bearing indicated, without swagger or threat, that the braining part of the sentence would be carried out on the slightest symptom of insubordination on the part of the former.
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If I were in his place, I'd brain her."
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_(sofa, aside)_ If he wasn't my fairy prince, I'd brain him!
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I've a mind to brain you where you lie."
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I had to brain him wi' a rack-pin; there was nae doing wi' him.
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I'll stay here and take a bed-slat and brain him as he comes up the stairway."
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He sprang suddenly erect as Mr. Ketchmaid, with a loud cry, snatched up a bottle and made as though to brain him with it.
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I won't brain you.
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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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or, as sure as the brother of the sun reigns over the Heavenly Empire, I will brain you with the poker.
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"Stand back, or I'll brain you with this!"
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No, no, Clitipho, Though from my brain you had been born, as Pallas Sprang, it is said, from Jupiter, I would not Bear the disgrace of your enormities.
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must I brain you, rascal?
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Kedy, will you please tell this big goofus that even though you have got Jarvis Hilton's brain you aren't Jarvis Hilton and never can be?"
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"He said one was ahead o' the rest an' had his tomahawk raised to brain me with it when--bing!--an' 'Mord' fetches _him_ down like he did the fellow that was goin' to skelp Father.
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He walks constantly behind me, and I feel every moment that the hammer may brain me."
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Clubbing the weapon, he raised it to brain him.
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Why, as I told thee, âtis a custom with him Iâ thâ afternoon to sleep: there thou mayst brain him, 85 Having first seized 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 thought would brain him on the spot.
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Again, as they came at a trot in response to his dinner call, he visualized himself braining them with the axe as they entered, and found pleasure in the picture.
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When these villains come back, and find that you've been humbugging them, they'll brain us on the spot, as sure as my name is John Brown and yours is Robert Smith--romantic names, both of 'em; especially when associated with the little romance in which we are now involved.
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"I urged upon him the impropriety of sending for you at the festivities," resumed the man, sniffing at the vial, "but he became excited, swore he would leave the bed and brain me with mine own pestle if I ventured to hinder him.
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An I were that man's wife, I wad brain him.
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But he would track him for years, hoping to take him unawares and to brain him with the tomahawk, or pierce his heart with the flint-pointed arrow.
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"Into the river with them or I'll brain you!" he cried, maddened at the weight and delay that were holding them back.
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"Shall I brain him--be a murderer, indeed?"
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If he could only see the panting, breathless wretch that leans there eagerly, with lifted gun, ready to brain him--waiting, waiting for him to come, even wishing that he only would come--he would start back with terror to the other side.
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"No--I--we rode down and trampled a man in the dark; I should think it would have been enough to brain him, but when I galloped back just now he was gone, and I don't know how badly he was hit."
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Help!" sang out the poor Jack tars; but, though caught unawares, they made a hard fight for their lives, one, a north-countryman, although stabbed in several places, snatching up a capstan bar and braining the Greek nearest him like a bullock.
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That cook in the Buffalo Hump who tried to knife him because he stubbed his toe against the coffee-pot, and "Packsaddle Pete," who meant to brain him when they differed over throwing the diamond hitch; and now Slim was dead because he had given a handful of salt to the mountain sheep.
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"Look yer, nigger man!" she exclaimed, "ef you come slobbun 'roun' me, I'll take one er deze yer dog-iüns en brain you wid it.
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"What a brain you must have, Bones!" he said admiringly.
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"If you come anywhere near me with a mustard plaster," said Hamilton, pardonably annoyed, "I'll brain you!"
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Had the tramp stopped to think, he might have known that the dog was going to play some trick on him, for who ever heard of a dog standing still while a man with a big, heavy cane was bearing down on him to brain him?
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_Cal._ Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him I' the afternoon to sleep; then thou mayst brain him, Having first seized his books; or with a log Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake, Or cut his weazand[427-16] with thy knife.
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"Jenkins, you're handy at a knockdown, but if you can't use what brain you've got, you'd better resign command here.
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And Vane, with his cue grasped in both hands, contemplated braining him with the butt...
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They succeed; but not without difficulty, and a free handling of handspikes--almost braining the apes before they consent to relinquish it.
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The best that we can hope for through all the failures, the injustice, the disheartening damage to individual rights and interests, is a fairly good general result, enabling us to walk abroad among our fellows unafraid, to meet even the tribesmen from another valley without too imminent peril of braining and evisceration.
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How would it be if the "life-termer" were assured against any additional inconvenience for braining a guard occasionally, or strangling a chaplain now and then?
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The doctor may say, "He has that look in the eyes, and he may take the hatchet and brain you all."
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Ki Sing approached to follow instructions, when Bill Mosely shouted, "I'll brain you, you yaller heathen, if you dare to touch me!"
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Dad started to interfere, because he is a member of the humane society, but the unique that was showing us around saved dad's life by pushing him along, before the woman got a chance to brain him with the washboard.
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"If any man were to play false by Terry, I think--I think I'd brain him."
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The first time he affords you with a reason for hating him, you'll hate him like---- The way you said: so that you could brain him without compunction.
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"Stay there," he said, "or I'll brain you."
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another word and I'll brain you!
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And the captain, out of his kind heart, sent these villains ashore in his own boat, instead of braining them or throwing them overboard.
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If he opens his mouth I'll brain him."
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Charles released both his mother and Cora, and, seizing Mr. Parris by the throat, hurled him to the ground, and raised a hammer to brain him; but at this moment a strong hand seized his arm, and the calm, kind voice of Mr. Waters said: "Stay your hand, Charles.
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"Look yer, nigger man!" she exclaimed, "ef you come slobbun 'roun' me, I'll take one er deze yer dog-iüns en brain you wid it.
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Now, Percy, use what little brain you have!
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I have no doubt he did this to avoid any temptation to brain me.
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Speak, or I'll brain you with this Flail."
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And then he asked me whether I had any Money, whereto I answered that I had a Guinea; and little doubting in my Quaking Heart but that he would presently Wrench it from me, if haply he were not minded to have Meal as well as Malt, and brain me as he had threatened.
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Even as college-lads graduate in their Latin and Greek, so I had graduated upon braining the Grenadier with the demijohn.
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I was in such a Mad Rage as to be near Braining the Captain of the Speronare with a Marline-Spike, and would have assuredly blown out the Brains of the first Moor that boarded us, had not the Italian Captain and his Mate seized each one of my arms, and by Main Force wrested my Weapons from me.
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He stood five feet three inches tall when wearing field boots with exceptionally high heels, but that did not prevent him from braining a Hun with the Hun's own wrench some sixty miles back of the enemy's front lines, and this is how it happened.
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Miss Pinckney said he had gone off "somewhere or another" and grumbled at him for going off leaving his breakfast not quite finished, she said that he was always "scatter braining about" either at the yacht club or somewhere else.
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It wasn't the fault of the chap who tried to brain him that the sub-inspector is alive to-day."
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There was probably more than one, and while the sub-inspector was facing the others, this one must have crept up behind him and tried to brain him from the back.
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I had to brain him wi' a rack-pin; there was nae doin' wi' him.
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Knowing the fiery temper of Lone Wolf, and the fact that he looked upon these brawls and affrays with great disfavor, and had strictly prohibited their occurrence, the quarrelsome young warriors fully apprehended that he would have no hesitation in braining the first offender who came within his reach.
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What would there be to prevent my braining the Indian in his tracks and then escape?
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I'm sure the slightest sign of hesitation on my part would have been the signal for your advocate to brain me with my own inkstand."
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Irishmen and Irishwomen, with the sad face of the Mother of the Lord for ever teaching them pity from their altars, fell like fiends from hell upon the unfortunate negro, driving him, a child of Christ, from the poor home he had won with so much toil; robbing him of all he possessed; burning his miserable refuge; frightening into madness his patient wife; braining his children; hounding the panic-stricken unfortunate from street to street, and torturing, mutilating, drowning, and assassinating him!
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Formerly, the braining of the pigs was done with skilfully carved clubs, instead of mere sticks, and this alone must have given the action something of solemnity; but these clubs have long since been sold to collectors and never replaced.
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I roamed about in the neighbourhood of Nabutriki and attended several festivals; they are much the same as elsewhere, except that the pigs are not killed by braining, but by trampling on their stomachs, which apparently causes rupture of the heart and speedy death.
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"I'll brain you, if you go on making fun of a hungry man," warned Sergeant Noll Terry, as he reached for the dipper hanging on a nail driven into a tree trunk.
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3._ Brain him with his lady's fan.
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Fan me while I sleep, 418. brain him with his lady's, 84.
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Lady's fan, brain him with his, 84.
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It was a fight at first with rifles and musketry at long range; then closer as the hostile host came crowding in upon them; the bullets sent through windows and loopholed walls--some from the flat parapetted roofs of the houses--till at length it became a conflict hand to hand with knife, sword, and pistol, or guns clubbed--being empty, with no time to reload them--many a Texan braining one antagonist with the butt of his piece after having sent its bullet through the body of another!
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T'other was a red-headed, tough young devil, an' took such a deal of it that we had to brain him with a handspike at the last."
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If the monsters who live on my violin-playing return and find you here, they will brain you with the tools of their trade, and I shall be lost.'
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And Greenglove had tried to brain him.