When the thief pleaded guilty for stealing the diamonds, the judge held back the flaying that rose up inside her. From LearnThat.org.
Looks like someone's cosy old granny and has a tongue that would flay a kangaroo. From Wordnik.com. [Rat Race]
I will flay you and make a thief's pouch with the skin. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
He looked around the camp, ready to flay another victim. From Wordnik.com. [Phule me twice]
If you do, I'll flay your skin off with a potato peeler. From Wordnik.com. [bard Diary Entry] Reference
No. I expected you to flay my mind with telepathic curses. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Wilds]
Half-flay the fading cheek and brow, and bid them bloom again. From Wordnik.com. [The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse] Reference
"Even if you lived, I could not flay you!" the Fury protested. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon on a Pedestal]
Take a Pig, flay it and quarter it, then bone it, take also a good. From Wordnik.com. [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference
Tear, pluck, strike, flay them, and first of all smash the stew-pot. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
“You may wish to hear it before you flay the skin from my body.”. From Wordnik.com. [Voice of the Gods]
But as we flay the Times, let's not forget how much we still need it. From Wordnik.com. [An Erosion Of Trust] Reference
Spit a whole Pigg and rost it till it will flay, then take it off the. From Wordnik.com. [The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet Stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex] Reference
I will cut him up, sir; I will flay him -- flagellate him -- finish him!. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841] Reference
"To flay off your skin, that I may make me a warm cap against the winter.". From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
It at once removes the skin, and if rubbed in with vigour will flay a horse. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 5, 1890] Reference
Someday, if he had the chance, he'd flay his own overseer, but that could wait. From Wordnik.com. [The Sky Is Falling] Reference
'You can flay me no more than I have already flayed myself,' he said, sobering. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
"Oh! Don't flay me, daddy dear, and I'll bring you a whole herd of little sheep.". From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
One person mused about using a carrot peeler to "flay the rats in charge at AIG.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2009] Reference
Chairman Barney Frank's hearing was intended to flay the CEOs for not lending enough. From Wordnik.com. [Committee on Doubt and Uncertainty] Reference
For, my lad, if I flay your back, and break my heart to do it, I'll win at the truth. '. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
His skeptical gaze was sharp enough to flay the thin silk of the negligee from her skin. From Wordnik.com. [Thief Of Hearts]
She'll flay him with her tongue for having dared to say a disrespectful word to God's minister. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
Back then they went to consult their traps and flay their fragrant captives, and we shot forward. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862] Reference
She was going to stomp on it, flay it and leave it a twisted mass of jelly quivering on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Gore: My Stepping In As Nominee Is "As Remote As You Can Possibly Imagine"] Reference
You can continue to flay Blago while throwing up your hands and saying like it or not Burris pick is legal. From Wordnik.com. [Senate Dems To Block Burris' Path To Senate -- Perhaps Even Literally] Reference
The Ned Lamont campaign is making extensive use of that site, both to plug their guy and to flay Joe Lieberman. From Wordnik.com. [Trippi asks 'Can YouTube swing an election?'] Reference
"It is said that light — sunlight particularly — can flay the very skin from their bodies," Nagel told her. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness of the Light] Reference
At this day, however, kings do not believe that they rule freely, unless they not only flay their subjects, but entirely devour them. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2] Reference
Oldys and Cobbett tried to flay him alive in pamphlets; Sherwin and Clio Rickman were prejudiced friends and published only panegyrics. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference
The girl might not have been so admiring had she seen her in one of her tempers, when her tongue could flay the hide off a wagon driver. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Rising]
He'd been one of her course instructors at Sandhurst and even at forty he'd been able to flay most of them around the cross-country course. From Wordnik.com. [Whispers Of Betrayal]
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