o'erdoing

I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant.

George Heymont: Laying a Clear Dramatic Foundation George Heymont 2011

I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod pray you avoid it.

The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard

O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it.

Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School Edwin L. Miller

O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-show and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod; pray you, avoid it.

The Drama Henry Brodribb Irving 1894

I could have such a fellow whipp'd for o'erdoing Termagant.

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I Various 1885

Whipped for o'erdoing termagant, 137. the offending Adam, 90.

Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862

O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robtustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, we for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod.

The American Union Speaker 1852

O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious perrywig-pated fellow [44] tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, [45] who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; [46] it out-herods Herod: [47] Pray you, avoid it.

Hamlet William Shakespeare 1590

O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing

Hamlet William Shakespeare 1590

a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods

The Ontario High School Reader A.E. Marty