larrup

• “In the broad and piebald field of eliptonic bibliophany, I will admit to being a sucker for Beauty, either as a physical artifact -- Manly Palmer Hall's Secret Teachings of All Ages being the epitome here -- or in prose style, which is far less common, though Charles Fort's rhetorical swoop and staccato larrup is a Mauve Decade ironist's delight.”

  Kenneth Hite's Journal

• “ZOE-FANNY: I let him larrup it into me for the fun of it.”

  Ulysses

• “They declared that the long arm of British Imperialism, clutching for gold, had pursued them even into their last refuges; and Mr. Chamberlain rejoined, in effect, that they were refusing to give civil rights to the modern productive elements who were making nine-tenths of the wealth of their country, because they were afraid they would no longer be allowed to larrup their own Kaffirs.”

  Simon & Schuster: MY EARLY LIFE

• “With a scream, she began to larrup me with the drowned object again.”

  A Rude Awakening

• “I'll larrup the d---- d' ooman ony how, and ye, too, ef ye say much more. ”

  The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

• “Toby," says she, "go and see the old gentleman; perhaps it might comfort him to larrup you a little.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841

• “There, Lynne Maximilian Catt!" she exclaimed in a voice tense with passion, "you will never use that pair to larrup me with again.”

  Tabitha at Ivy Hall

• “When dey got him back to de house, dey would buckle him down over a barrel and larrup him wid a plaited whup.”

  Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1

• “She worked me to death and wouldn't give me half enough to eat, and she used to larrup me 'most every day.”

  Rainbow Valley

• “Be all th 'saints in glory I'll larrup th' head off iv yez -- or I w'u'd if”

  Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters

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