10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLOG TO DEATH»
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The Student's Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon
-en unmoved. ofstende once hastening. of stician stab to death. ofstig swift. ofge-
stignes_/! descent. of stingan 3 stab to death. of swelgan 3 devour. ofswingan 3
flog to death. oft av.. cpv. -or, spl. -ost often. of-talu/. verdict against a claim. oftêon
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Chambers Pocket Dictionary
flog to death (coif) 1 to over-use (an idea, expression, etc.) so that it becomes
tedious and ineffective. 2 to overwork. [Lat flagellars to whip] flood n 1 an
overflow of water over dry land, e.g. (cap; Bible) the one from which Noah took
refuge in the ...
Elaine Higgleton, Howard Sargeant, Anne Seaton, 1992
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Broad Views: A Monthly Periodical Dealing with All Subjects ...
The example is important, and Mr. Nevinson is assured, — although this part of
his story is one which he is not able personally to guarantee, that again to
discourage similar mistakes, it is considered well at San Thome to flog to death
any ...
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In the Shadow of the Bush
One of these carries a rod or whip, the symbol of the power of the society, which,
under native law, had the right to flog to death any non-members who had
seriously offended against its rules. The other bears the symbolic green boughs,
which ...
Percy Amaury Talbot, 1912
Finally, we subscribe for perfectly useless expeditions, and we hire “ carriers,"
whom we flog, to death or shoot, for exercising their inalienable right to decline to
join in such expeditions in order that their masters may be paid for their services.
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Marginalized: Indian Poetry in English
Ill-informed and ill-advised critics – often, journalists trying to beat a deadline or
academics with an axe to grind – continue to flog to death the issue of whether it
is at all permissible for a poet writing in English to dream in the mother tongue ...
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The Chambers Crossword Dictionary, 3rd edition
... belt, flay, flog, whip 05 sauce 06 attack, pummel, strike, thrash 07 dwell on 09
lay onload, reiterate 11 flog to death, harponabout 14 go on andonabout Belarus
02BY,SU03BLRbelated 04late05 lated, tardy 07 delayed, overdue 09 benighted,
...
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A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore: The Oral Literature, ...
One of these carries a rod or whip, the symbol of the power of the society, with
which, under native law, he had the right to flog to death any nonmembers who
had seriously offended against its rules. The other bears the symbolic green
boughs ...
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Toussaint L'Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography
He took special pains to withstand the ravages of Dessalines, whom in a
proclamation he threatened to flog to death as the meanest of slaves. Men only
laughed at the folly. Nevertheless, he succeeded in protecting from the continual
...
John Relly Beard, James Redpath, 1863
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The Field Artillery Journal
They flog to death, they decimate. A Roman general asks himself how to conquer
these enemies who terrify his men. He does so by raising their morale, not by
enthusiasm, but by rage. He makes the lives of his men miserable by excessive ...
7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLOG TO DEATH»
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Classical music review: Nagano/OSM concerts had me on the edge …
Glass is a composer “who never had a good idea he didn't flog to death” in Justin Davidson's marvellous quip, and though the composer's ... «Montreal Gazette, Mar 15»
Tamale Chief wants porno boy dead
The chief of Tamale, Dakpema Naa Alhassan Dawuni, has insisted that his resolve to publicly flog to death, the young man at the centre of the ... «GhanaWeb, Aug 14»
The God that failed
With the exception of Cream, I hear a guitarist who never met a blues cliche he didn't love and flog to death. I hear a pop star in the Phil ... «Economic Times, Jul 14»
Kurt Cobain: Angst and rebellion, made-to-order?
It proved there was literally no trend that the music industry couldn't flog to death. And in the unconvincing glum warbling of the likes of Bush ... «Economic Times, Apr 14»
trying to like Philip Glass, again and again
But Glass never had a good idea he didn't flog to death: He repeats the haunting scale 30 mind-numbing times, until it's long past time to go ... «New York Magazine, Jan 12»
Consumer power as firms misjudge
Fast forward to Rugby World Cup year, the year in which adidas should have been in the box seat to flog to death its All Blacks association and ... «Stuff.co.nz, Oct 11»
Oops! White House fails basic geography test
Boy , the mad dogs are sure lucky to have that one thing that they can continue to flog to death, whereas we get bombarded daily with scores of ... «CNN, Sep 11»
