"Drub" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... generals look proudly conscious)—"I tell you, citizens, that I am in treaty with other and most tremendous champions, who will march by the side of our veterans to the achievement of fresh victories. Now, blow, trumpets! Bang, ye gongs! and drummers, drub the thundering skins! Generals and chiefs, we go to ...
— Roundabout Papers • William Makepeace Thackeray
... kamelo. Drone burdo. Droop (pine) malfortigxi. Drop guto. Dropsy akvosxvelo. Dross metala sxauxmo. Drought senpluveco. Drove (cattle) bestaro, brutaro. Drown droni. Drown (trans.) dronigi. Drowsy dorma. Drub (beat) bati. Drudge laboregi. Drug drogo. Druggist drogisto. Drum tamburo. Drum, of ear oreltamburo. Drunkard drinkulo. Drunkenness ebrieco. Dry seka. Dry up sekigxi. Dry, one's self sin sekigi. Dry land firmajxo. Dryness sekeco. Dual duobla, ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes
... out of the earth of old, A dumb and beastly vermin crawled, For acorns first and holes of shelter, They tooth and nail and helter-skelter, Fought fist to fist; then with a club, Each learned his brother brute to drub; Till more experienced grown, these cattle Forged fit accoutrements for battle. At last (Lucretius says, and Creech) They set their wits to work on speech; And that their thoughts might all have marks To ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. - Volume 20, No. 567, Saturday, September 22, 1832. • Various
... 've with Nelson plough'd the main, Pull away, jolly boys! Now his signal flies again, Pull away! Brave hearts, then let us go To drub the haughty foe, Who once again shall know, Pull away, gallant boys! That our backs we never ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes I-VI. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various
... excusing himself a little more, "with a light heart I shall be able to drub the French ...
— As We Sweep Through The Deep • Gordon Stables
... here's a dead snip for you. Listen! When you come to the words "to love, cherish and to obey," you simply drop the second "to" (nobody will miss it) and run the "d" of the "and" into the "obey," and lo! we have a French word, to wit, dauber, meaning to cuff, drub or belabour. What say you to that, my bonny bride? I think that deserves an extra large slice of cake, to put under my pillow. And I say, Muriel, I do hope there won't be any of those rotten cassowary seeds in it. If there are, for pity's sake ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 146., January 14, 1914 • Various
... beaming in his eyes "Smirke is unwell," he said with a laugh. For a long while Hele had not seen the boy looking so cheerful. He put his arm round her waist, and walked her up and down the walk in front of the house. Laura began to drub on the drawing-room window and nod and laugh from it. "Come along, you two people," cried on Major Pendennis, "your coffee ...
— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray
... fairer for us—the collision more even? When the fight at Moodkee was done, there was not, of the surviving victors, a Queen's soldier or a sepoy who had not already settled to his own satisfaction the whole campaign of the Sutlej, in the pithy but comprehensive conviction, that he should drub the Sikhs whenever he met them. The logician smiles at the vulnerable reasoning; the soldier smiles, too, and feels himself clad in better armour than steel or brass. There had been a reciprocal amicable emulation every where prevalent throughout the battle, between ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 • Various
... 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; ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 8 • Richard F. Burton |
