counterblasts

Drake and Raleigh introduced it in England, and though its use was regarded as a sin, to be checked not merely by royal "counterblasts" and by edicts like that of William the Testy, but by laws prescribing torture, exile, whipping, and even death, it was not long in reaching the uttermost parts of the earth.

Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate 1879

You can find his latest counterblasts here, but here's just a taste of his incredulous fury.

A Zambian editor who continues to be a hero for press freedom 2010

If I can leave you with some counterblasts firmly etched in your mind, it may just wind up saving you a bundle.

Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation David Dreman 1998

If I can leave you with some counterblasts firmly etched in your mind, it may just wind up saving you a bundle.

Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation David Dreman 1998

Nietzsche to forge his flashing counterblasts, but though their vision of the "general situation" thus coincided, their conclusions were diametrically different.

Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917

But the flame of liberty could not be smothered by friends or blown out by enemies; it was kept alive by vigorous counterblasts in the press, and especially fed by the lecture system, which was then at the height of its efficiency.

Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, Volume I 1905

Whenever anybody counterblasts to-day against tobacco, I feel as did my old friend Wilkie Collins, when somebody told him that to smoke was a wrong thing.

The Social History of Smoking George Latimer Apperson 1897

I present gratuitously to the blowers of counterblasts, who are at liberty to make whatever use they choose of it.

Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873

Muggleton, and the counterblasts of Muggleton, Claxton, and their friends in reply.

The Coming of the Friars Augustus Jessopp 1868

For I have abundant evidence that it has made many practitioners more cautious in their relations with puerperal females, and I have no doubt it will do so still, if it has a chance of being read, though it should call out a hundred counterblasts, proving to the satisfaction of their authors that it proved nothing.

Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851