pommeling

I heard a lesser boy, his coward arms held over his head and face, say to a bigger, who was pommeling him, for having run away with his apple, his orange, or his ginger-bread.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

She tried to pull free, to no avail, and so turned to face her attacker, pommeling him with bloody hands.

A Flag Full of Stars Brad Ferguson 2000

Assume you — Frizer — are sitting wedged between Poley and Skeres and Marlowe is pommeling you about the head with the dagger's hilt.

the dirty duck Grimes, Martha 1984

Assume you — Frizer — are sitting wedged between Poley and Skeres and Marlowe is pommeling you about the head with the dagger's hilt.

The Dirty Duck Grimes, Martha 1984

He wondered where she would be during the "great day" before them when she read or learned of the exposure of Gibson's alliance with "Gink" Cummings, of the horrible pommeling given Murphy, of the attack upon himself.

Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles James H. Richardson

With a cry of triumph, Bud Hayes, without giving Herb a chance to get to his feet again, threw himself down on top of him and started pommeling him for all he was worth.

The Radio Boys at the Sending Station Making Good in the Wireless Room Allen Chapman

This was too much for our Englishman, and he answered it -- as an Englishman is accustomed to answer insulting remarks in relation to the affairs of his household -- not by a single blow, but by such a pommeling as never a priest had sustained since the Conquest.

Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited Robert A. Wilson

The boys leaped over into the fort, using their muskets for clubs, and, when the work was too close for that, dropping their guns and pommeling their adversaries with their fists.

Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 George T. Stevens

A dozen times, I suppose, I have seen a friend of the entombed stoop adroitly and shove a cigarette or a piece of chocolate under the door, to the girls or the men or the girl or man screaming, shouting, and pommeling faintly behind that very door -- but, you would say by the sound, a good part of a mile away ....

The Enormous Room 1928

Charity rewarded his chivalrous pommeling of Cheever by asking him never to come near her again.

We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914