"Drub" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fine a mangy sheep could scrub, Or nobly fling the gospel club, And New-Light herds could nicely drub, Or pay their skin; Could shake them o'er the burning dub, Or ...
— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham
... one-eyed, what shall be My saying of a knave, his fashion and degree? I rede thee vaunt thee not of praise from us, for lo! Even as a docktailed cur thou art esteemed of me. By Allah, without fail, to-morrow thou shalt see Me with ox-leather dress and drub the ...
— Tales from the Arabic Volumes 1-3 • John Payne
... 1852) remarks the similarity of this word to Tazza and a number of other whimsical coincidences as Zauj, {Greek letters} jugum; Inkr, negare; matrah, matelas; Ishtir, acheter, etc. To which I may add wasat, waist; zabad, civet; Bs, buss (kiss); uzrub (pron. Zrub), drub; Kat', cut; Tarik, track; ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 8 • Richard F. Burton
... sike as me an' you. How do we knaw when fleets do reet or wrang? I whope it's all on't fause, bud sea talks gang. Howsiver this I knaw, at when they please, Oor sailors always beat 'em upo' t' seas. An' if they nobbut sharply look aboot, T'hey needn't let a single ship coom oat. At least they'll drub 'em weel, I dinnot fear, An' keep 'em fairly off ...
— Yorkshire Dialect Poems • F.W. Moorman
... stories tell how Hercules A dragon slew at Lerna, With seven heads and fourteen eyes, To see and well discern-a: But he had a club, this dragon to drub, Or he ne'er had done it, I warrant ye: But More of More-hall, with nothing at all, He slew ...
— The Children's Garland from the Best Poets • Various
... pitched it in red-hot on purpose; and before the hour's out, as he said, we shall be boarded. We're outnumbered, I needn't tell you that, but we fight in shelter; and, a minute ago, I should have said we fought with discipline. I've no manner of doubt that we can drub them, if ...
— Treasure Island • Robert Louis Stevenson
... wherein he had been captain-general, found all things in his house in very great disorder, and his lands quite out of tillage, through the ill husbandry of his receiver, and having caused him to be called to him; "Go," said he, "if I were not in anger I would soundly drub your sides." Plato likewise, being highly offended with one of his slaves, gave Speusippus order to chastise him, excusing himself from doing it because he was in anger. And Carillus, a Lacedaemonian, to a Helot, who carried himself insolently towards him: "By the gods," said ...
— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne |
