| 单词 | beaten |
| 例句 | Other officers were beaten and held hostage as well. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He stared down his very crooked nose at them, and Harry suddenly found himself wishing he and Ron were still being beaten up by the Whomping Willow. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z But I knew she wouldn't do well with news that I got into a fight, and that Needles got beaten pretty bad. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z The crew had beaten them off, at the cost of twelve lives. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I was very severly beaten by the cottage mistress, who had called me names and made fun of me in front of all the boys. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z When they didn't produce what the master expected, they were beaten, and some were even killed. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The long list of situational phobias includes the fears of being bound, beaten, locked into an enclosed area, and smeared with human waste. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Cowering on the floor, rocking between dread and disbelief, they realized that the man being beaten was Velutha. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I also had to pay the restitution of $1,500 to the boy I had beaten up. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Westley, still within the confines of the Fire Swamp, sank, beaten, to his knees. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Just when you think you’ve beaten the weed, it pops up somewhere new. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I remembered the expression on his face when he had beaten the field hand. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z In Chicago the editors of The Inland Architect tried to be reassuring: “Existing conditions are only an accident. Capital is only hidden. Enterprise is only frightened, not beaten.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He seemed to be so young, a cub, a puppy, something helpless and beaten, a creature so sunk in misery that it was more misery than creature. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Several members of the Life magazine staff were beaten. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Fugees had managed a win earlier in the season against a team that had beaten the Strikers. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I watched my mother being beaten half to death by James and watched as blood and tears streamed down her face, which was also unrecognizable. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I searched for strength somewhere, someplace inside me that had not been starved or fever-burned or beaten or afraid. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He said his great-grandfather was a French missionary who had been beaten senseless by a mob in his family’s village. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes it worked and sometimes, if the baby was old enough to protest, it only got him more soundly beaten. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Where he was beaten nearly to death and robbed of all his savings. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She marveled over how he’d been shot through with arrows and left for dead, how he’d survived his murder only to be beaten to death by the Roman Emperor’s soldiers and buried in the catacombs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He was young, and not yet beaten down by the brutal atmosphere and the frustration of trying to help people in pretty hopeless situations. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “Our lord’s love is stronger than death! Our lady’s voice has called him back! Together they have beaten death! Together, how can we help but be victorious?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I did not want to be violent with her, and yet I did not want to be beaten for a wrong I had not committed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you know how many times I’ve been beaten over the course of my life?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “And if we had been evenly matched in men and weapons, we couldn’t have beaten them. They were men,” he said, “Real men.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “You haven’t been beaten up since you were a kid. This is the second time in a few weeks. You can’t let them get to you.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The Bull had never actually thrown him down or beaten him up or anything. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “Yer Noise reveals you, young Todd,” he says, letting go of the girl, who’s so tied up and beaten now she don’t even try to run. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z After the night falls and it is safe for brown people to leave the South without getting stopped and sometimes beaten and always questioned: Are you one of those Freedom Riders? Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z When I ran inside I looked like I’d been beaten to a pulp because I was bawling my eyes out and was covered in red-purple berry juice. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I had never been beaten that way before—would never have thought I could absorb so much punishment without losing consciousness. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The odds are, however, that he’s beaten me to it already. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The cells where the guards had beaten him were below ground level. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The next day, someone else on W had been beaten up—a reprisal, from the looks of it—and was taken to the ER. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I believed my family was waiting for me. When this was over, they would be there, outside the camp, to greet me. And I would have beaten Hitler at his game.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Peeta being tortured—drowned, burned, lacerated, shocked, maimed, beaten—as the Capitol tries to get information about the rebellion that he doesn’t know. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Some in the crowd cheered, while others took cover as if they were afraid of being beaten, too. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z So they did everything they could to discourage the Indians—indentured workers were beaten by their employers, arrested, kept to certain areas, or separated from their families. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z By the time the evening ended, 150 people had been stabbed, beaten, or shot. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Prisoners reported that they were still being beaten by correctional staff and subjected to humiliation in stockades and other degrading punishments. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The Dodgers had won, 4 to 3, but Shirley was much too beaten to enjoy the victory. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z But once beaten and broken in battle so that he cannot regroup his troops, there is nothing else to be feared than the ruler’s family. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z During the night his mother and his sister had beaten him to death with a hammer in order to rob him and had thrown his body in the river. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z “Not stomped in the face. But beaten with a baton on the back by the police.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Billy felt sorry for the loser, knowing that at that moment he felt beaten and ashamed and hated the boxing he’d hoped would bring him to glory. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t like Negroes particularly, but she saw no reason why they should always be beaten. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She told me about how he and his fellow soldiers were intimidated, arrested, and beaten for failing to comply with government rules about carrying personal identification cards. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The team could lose, in fact could be beaten badly, but Ben wanted and needed a credible game while under the dispassionate gaze of college scouts. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I pictured myself being caught by this eager mob and beaten and tom by them. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z He hadn’t beaten his brothers on family game night once since January. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z We hiked through the sparse woods, making our way carefully down the beaten path we had created that summer, the summer of the mariposas. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z ‘If it wasn’t there, I’d have to say I was beaten in the end.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z A girl that big, a girl who comes in with her pretty face all beaten and black can’t be falling off the stairs. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “I mean...the last time I saw her, her father had just been beaten because he went to see her and her mother.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z He had never yet been beaten, had never been obliged to surrender a jersey to a rival oarsman. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Several witnesses claimed he had been beaten to death. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Two years before, only twenty miles away, General Washington had beaten the Hessians there. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Proud that I could represent Mrs. Fitzgerald—her brother who was beaten in Selma. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She was beaten by the life of the city, just as my mother had been beaten. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Foremen in the factory, who were prisoners chosen by guards for their toughness, generally looked the other way when seamstresses were beaten. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I worry that the other students will find him arrogant, which is not a good thing to be in our neighborhood, unless you like being beaten down. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In the middle of the glade, on the chief tree, there hung an enormous copper basin, triumphing over the beaten shields. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He spied Yossarian finally with a feeling of immense joy, and then his mouth gaped open slowly in unbearable horror as he noted Yossarian’s vivid, beaten, grimy look of deep, drugged despair. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Run away. I saw your suitcase. Were you getting beaten at school?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Some black men had robbed the store and taken him to the basement and bound him and beaten him up. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Until that moment, tears had welled in my eyes, but I had beaten them back with furious blinking or distraction. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z I mean, it was one thing to have a conviction, but to be beaten up or killed for it—was it worth it? All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “George,” Pollard told him, “will probably mess everything up as usual and try to get beaten a nose, but even George isn’t bad enough to beat Seabiscuit in this one.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you going to have me beaten for not talking to you?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Smoked ham, bacon, a bucket of salt mackerel, flour, cornmeal, grits, raw sweet potatoes, lard, coffee, a tin of butter, some store bread, and a can of beaten biscuits that Dunse’s mama made. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “I warned you. I warned you. And now look at you, beaten and bruises.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z If you are caught alone on the street, you wiU be beaten and sent home. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z He was, at least as Jefferson described him, a beaten man. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The year before that, a young man’s forehead was beaten in with a metal tube. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “That’s the only reason I shouldn’t get beaten to a pulp, or worse?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z The smith now gloved each horn in a pure foil beaten out of the gold that Nestor gave him— a glory and delight for the goddess’ eves— while Ekhephron and Stratios held the horns. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He lifts his musket, but it is beaten out of his hands by Master Archer. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z She was often kicked and once was beaten up. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He’d beaten out seven primary opponents and earned more than half the vote to win the nomination. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In the end the Mountain and a handful of his best had gained the west bank, but Edmure had thrown his reserve at them, and they had shattered and reeled away bloody and beaten. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I followed them to Auntie Braxton’s house like a beaten hunting pup. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “But it will happen only to us. If they felt the way we do, it would be all right. But they have beaten us. They feel another way.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z In a frantic voice she told him how local authorities had beaten her husband and he was dying. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Stalin’s book showed how diverse minorities could be welded into unity, and I regarded it as a most politically sensitive volume that revealed a new way of looking upon lost and beaten peoples. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Even being beaten did not stop John Roanhorse from speaking Navajo. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z People were arrested or beaten as a result. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I learned that Uncle Lee had been drinking in a bar, had probably been drunk, and was robbed and beaten in an alley. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z He found the house, a weather beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last minute the firm ordered him to Washington and I went out to the country alone. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Probably no one had ever beaten her desk with a baton before. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z “Many of the soldiers have always felt this way. It is not because they were beaten.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Most often though, An said, prisoners were beaten, sometimes to death, simply because guards were bored or in a sour mood. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She thought guiltily of Mariam, beaten and bloodied, locked in this heat in the toolshed. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The next morning I again found that Francis had beaten me to the lab. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “You got beaten up and thrown down a flight of stairs. Want to explain what you were doing?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Back then, we heard stories of teenagers who were beaten by the police for attending a coed party. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z They were beaten, humiliated and then made to suffer the envy of friends and relations for having such a wonderful husband and father. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He was beaten, deprived of food for five days, and his cafeteria rations were cut in half for three months. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The windows gleamed like beaten gold or silver, but now John saw, in the yellow light, how fine dust veiled their doubtful glory. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Some students in that school, especially after being beaten enough times for talking Indian, reached the point where it became hard for them to speak Navajo, even when they wanted to. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Above on the wall was a framed picture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who’d beaten out Hoover as president of the United States. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I learned the realities of gang violence not from after-school specials but when my boy Mark got jumped and beaten down for wearing the wrong color jacket. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z This was a gesture of kindness, indicating that, even if they had beaten the black woman, they would not beat me if I knew enough to keep my mouth shut. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z And Silly had told me that one of the pro-union workers had got beaten up one night. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z His family maintained that he was beaten by police and jail officials who then denied him his asthma inhaler and medication despite his begging for it. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z They tell of an older woman who welcomed a migrant into her home and was beaten to death with an iron pipe. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z As a young boy, my dad regularly witnessed his mom getting beaten, and the image of her being abused remains burned into his memory. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Within minutes of meeting each other, Ma had beaten Pappa with her umbrella because he took her seat on the bus. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z We are suffering a setback but we have not been beaten. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra was afraid of the Steward, who had twice beaten her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Warming to her theme, she went on, “We’ll probably get beaten and everything.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The gates were opened, and a ragged bunch of prisoners were marched back inside, all beaten and bloodied. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z She had seen boys and girls younger than this beaten and had done nothing. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Agha, did you hear what Mullah Nasrud- din did when his daughter came home and complained that her husband had beaten her?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I went back to Pop’s to tell Elizabeth and Bertrand that Francis and I had probably beaten Pauling to the gate and that the answer would revolutionize biology. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He stood up as straight as he could and said, Comrades, we have suffered a setback but we have not been beaten. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you know, Dad, that not one of us here has ever beaten you in a single game? Not checkers, not dominoes, not softball, nothing.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z "If any of you are caught bringing these contraband items"—she taps the paper—"you will be beaten or put in the starvation boxes. I will see to it myself." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The buildings were burning and people got beaten up just because of the color of their skin, their religion, or ethnicity. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Twenty dollars could get me beaten up and robbed, if not killed. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The nine freshman boys who had beaten California would go to Poughkeepsie to race for the national championship after all. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Then Bull would have beaten me to a pulp and the whole thing would have been over. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z He found the woman’s husband lying on the dirt floor, beaten to unconsciousness. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The Fifteens were likely to be beaten, which was the point; their reaction to playing a much better opponent would tell Luma a lot about their chances as a team. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z He looked like he had been in a fight and been beaten up bad. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They resented Swift and the other big bosses who had mercilessly beaten them down. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The beaten, humiliated Kaan lost the support of its vassals and was reduced to penury. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She would have attacked the woman and probably beaten her senseless. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Jack had to learn which parts of town it was safe for him to be in without risk of being beaten up by a non-Jewish gang, or, at the very least, called anti-Semitic names. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z I, too, rejoiced along with everybody— simply because a black man had finally “beaten to death” a white man. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Or sometimes not; sometimes it seems to lurk rather than hover kindly, and its stretch is not a yawn but an increase to be beaten back with a stick. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z None of this had amused Nurse, who made his displeasure clear by confining Mormont in an iron cage and having him beaten every evening as the sun sank into Slaver’s Bay. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When they finally got permission to go in and looked in at him in the cell, he was twisted up in a corner badly beaten and dressed in nothing but extremely soiled underwear. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Maybe these were two women who lived far enough off the beaten path that there was some strange common ground between them. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z All he knew was that every inch of him was aching as though it had been beaten. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The brownish-green husks, oozing their dark purple stain, were beaten off on a flat rock outside the cabin. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, it had grown increasingly insane, with nasty confrontations between picketers and replacement workers, people arrested, beaten, lying in the street in front of delivery trucks. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered fleeing Constantinople because he had beaten their champion so quickly. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z We still lived off the beaten path, but Pinewood Drive was much closer to my friends and school than the San Jose locales my parents were now considering. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I knew what Chandra said was true, but I also knew that I could not crawl about like a beaten dog. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z He also remembered getting beaten with an extension cord when he was taking a bath. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I had often been painfully beaten, but almost always I had felt that the beatings were somehow right and sensible, that I was in the wrong. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He whipped around to see the lady who’d ordered them beaten, and almost burned her with the end of his torch. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z How many times had Luke beaten somebody stronger and faster only because he understood these things? We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Since all the convenient hotels were either booked or required multiple pounds of flesh in payment, we ended up off the beaten tourist path. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Seabiscuit’s temperamental outburst had left him hopelessly beaten, but as Pollard angled him into the stretch and asked him to get his mind back on running, Smith witnessed something he would never forget. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a beaten way, north-westward along the foot-hills of the White Mountains, and this they followed, up and down in a green country, crossing small swift streams by many fords. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z All over the United States, track managers realized that Belmont had beaten them to the punch. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Later he looked down on her beaten face. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Martin had once seen the moon as hopeful, too, but after he was beaten down by cynics the moon was dark for him. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I had once tried to write, had once reveled in feeling, had let my crude imagination roam, but the impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z People getting beaten, and sometimes killed, by the cops, and then there’s all this fuss about it, only to build up to a big heartbreak when nothing happens. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Papa pulled her away, but when they stopped, Hanako looked back to see several inmates being savagely beaten, one with a baseball bat, by guards. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The husk of the tracker jacker nest, beaten to a pulp by the heavy rains and dried in the burning sun, confirms the location. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z No person in his right mind would ever go to an island in Alaska to be alone with someone who had beaten him senseless. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I made my remarks brief—but I made them strong: “How can you condemn Portugal and South Africa while our black people in America are being bitten by dogs and beaten with clubs?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It is the first time he has looked at his face since he was beaten. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Shuttled from one specialist to the next, the girl had been prescribed to shun garlic, consume disproportionate quantities of bitters, meditate, drink green coconut water, and swallow raw duck’s eggs beaten in milk. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Every day, new patients would come in after being savagely beaten by North Korean soldiers. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He was sure then that he had the negro, who was a fine man and a great athlete, beaten. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z How could I think that, knowing other families of rootworkers had been dragged out of their homes, beaten, and jailed? Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Pilate and Reba, seated beside the bed, bent over her like two divi-divi trees beaten forward by a wind always blowing from the same direction. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Once he learned a game, it took him mere hours to master it, and then he simply couldn’t be beaten. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He had only beaten the air that slipped and slithered around him like smooth silk. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Eyeing me like I’d just leapt the net and beaten the favorite to death with my racket. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z A gaelet would simply have you beaten, or robbed, or both. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I doubted that Uncle Abdullah ever loved any of his wives, or he would not have beaten them. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z It was off the beaten path, halfway between a mining town and a farming town. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She heard the sounds of Frederick being beaten, and wondered what the noise was in the hallway. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The beggar turned and slouched past whimpering: ‘Poor old Gríma! Poor old Gríma! Always beaten and cursed. How I hate him! I wish I could leave him!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z When the bell rang for lunch, I raced to my locker, but somehow Ben had beaten me there, and somehow he was talking to Lacey Pemberton. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z No one in the sullen, cowering crowd seemed to care enough about the stunned and beaten boy to interfere. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Old men were beaten, women were pulled out into the street by their hair, homes were robbed by our own neighbors. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And he’d hate me even more still if he knew I had seen him on his knees, beaten by a human servant. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I was beaten that night and told that over the summer I would have to relearn all the lessons in which I had done poorly. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z She felt that the man should be beaten for his impertinence, then thrown out of Asgard and sent on his way. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Barbecue, sour cream and onion, salt and vinegar, cheddar ranch, flaming hot, and I tried to figure out which would be the one that could be most easily beaten by a stick of gum. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The pitted iron hardware deep lilac in color, smeltered in some bloomery in Cadiz or Bristol and beaten out on a blackened anvil, good to last three hundred years against the sea. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z On my way out of the ghetto, I saw a girl beaten to death with the butt of a rifle. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Mr. Rice was furious, but we children figured that the mainland schools were too embarrassed to be beaten out by islanders and so made up a rule to save their faces. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Western Market was a great square of beaten earth surrounded by warrens of mud-baked brick, animal pens, whitewashed drinking halls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z We are not beaten, for as soldiers we are better and more experienced; we are simply crushed and driven back by overwhelming superior forces. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z We had suffered a setback but we had not been beaten. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Less than three hours after their best soccer of the season, they were beaten 2-1. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “Has everyone been beaten up while other kids videoed what was happening and posted it online instead of going to get help?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I was remembering the tale of the “white” man who had beaten the “black” boy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z As the face was exposed I could see that it was horribly bruised, as though it had been beaten against the floor—indeed it was from the face wounds that the pool of blood originated. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z They came to the path and found that it was broad, paved with broken rubble and beaten ash. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z They were beaten, starved, and forced to watch their loved ones killed before their own eyes by Hitler’s troops. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z One got away, but the other was beaten by the crowd. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Alone and unprotected, they were beaten violently, and their bus was bombed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z "My lady," he said, bowing; as if he had not beaten her bloody only three hours past. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was better than being beaten up, though, and I went downtown with him to the Port Authority bus terminal on 42nd Street. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z A week later Frank was beaten up badly by two men who had followed him in the park. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I remember men in ski masks taking me in the middle of the night, my parents screaming, and the sound of my father being beaten. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And Kabarak had beaten the other school in three of the four events that day, so everyone was happy. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z He was tied to a tree, stripped naked, and had been beaten to death. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z When he arrived at the city jail badly bruised and bleeding, Mr. Ruffin told the other inmates that he had been beaten terribly and was desperately in need of his inhaler and asthma medication. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Someone has beaten a giant,” he said, when the Count was close enough. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He was big enough to provide the leverage and power that a great crew needs in the middle of the boat, and he never seemed to believe he was beaten, even if he was. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Well, his head was beaten up pretty bad, so it’d a been hard to tell right off who it was no matter what, but—” Breland interrupted him. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z That made him feel a little better to be utterly beaten by a man Hazel could have licked without half trying. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But when she rounded the corner, she saw that someone else had beaten her to it. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z It could be beaten like copper, and polished like glass; and the Dwarves could make of it a metal, light and yet harder than tempered steel. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Rashad and I had been beaten up by brothers from the same family? All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He had been trained by guards and teachers to believe that every time he was beaten, he deserved it—because of the treasonous blood he had inherited from his parents. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z How many times he had been beaten, how long the beatings had continued, he could not remember. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He imagined how it must have been to watch, helpless, while his future was beaten to pieces. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z How quickly we forgot that in that winter Ludendorff could not be beaten and that many people were preparing in their minds and spirits for a lost war. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Two years running now, his varsity had beaten Ebright’s in the Pacific Coast Regatta only to turn around and lose in Poughkeepsie. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z On the other hand, he was not angry at being beaten. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z They had beaten him and left him for dead. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The men speculated that when he went over the waterfall, his body must have been pulled underwater and beaten against the boulders, drowning him. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z I suddenly feel like Goliath must have felt the moment he realized he’d been beaten by David. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Dear Diary, Reading The Color Purple really makes me uncomfortable because Celie is always getting beaten up by Mister. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He stared at the bronze lantern swaying from the ceiling and thought about how easily Chrysaor had beaten him at swordplay. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He would probably get beaten up himself, or maybe worse. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The buildings on this street, so near that John could touch them on either side, were narrow, also, rising like spears into the sky, and they were made of beaten gold and silver. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He moved to the edge of some trees, where suddenly a couple of mismatched, beaten chairs appeared, courtesy of some nearby women. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The great mound of ashes in the barnlot was soon beaten into a hard-packed mass by driving rain and the heat of spring and early summer. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d never been beaten up, but he’d been stopped on the street several times, questioned by cops, asked to turn his pockets out and lift his shirt up, for no reason. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z During the Treason Trial, there were no examples of individuals being isolated, beaten, and tortured in order to elicit information. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If I were beaten at home, there was absolutely nothing that I could do about it; but if I were beaten in the streets, I had a chance to fight and defend myself. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z If she failed in any of these backbreaking jobs, she was beaten. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Hundreds of workers were intimidated, beaten, hauled from their homes, and jailed on flimsy charges. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Because the guards of segregation were everywhere in the white world, and I saw black people who unwittingly disobeyed them cursed, beaten or thrown in jail, I became increasingly self-conscious with each step I took. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Wet leaves in the trees shimmered like beaten metal. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If Artemis Fowl had beaten them, then that was it. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Merely to be alone, not to be beaten or questioned, to have enough to eat, and to be clean all over, was completely satisfying. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z As the newsmen wondered aloud if Man o’ War himself could have beaten Seabiscuit, Howard clattered in. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A battery changed hands, it was somewhat too large, a metal flange was beaten back. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Once, only once in his whole life, Kingshaw had been beaten up. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “A lot of people had suffered during the previous two months. A lot of people had been beaten and hurt and jailed. But no one had died. Not until now.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z For just a moment, he looks a beaten man. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Did someone make a case for mercy that was beaten down by the calls for the deaths of the districts’ children? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z And then she was beaten in the end. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Gaines had now not beaten Lee in any of his three seasons—three seasons! Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Charlie Mahan was beaten to death three months after arriving at Pontiac Correctional Center. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Until that instant when I saw my father beaten and bloody, I had somehow felt I was safe. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z "I thought I had long since beaten all of your insolence out of you." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z With my head still like the bottom of a beaten conga drum, I stand up. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I am beaten, I am going to die, he thought just before he fell onto the mountain path. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I really didn’t want to ask Negra why Victor had beaten her up; I wasn’t their marriage counselor. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Fought in ad 451, against the now Christian Roman Empire and their allies, the encounter was a rare occasion on which Attila and his heathen Huns were beaten. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “A fool, that’s what I am! A little fool, climbing all this way to be beaten by an old loft door.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Stating that he witnessed three other black people, including two women, also beaten, Francis said, “Before I became unconscious, I could hear them pleading with the Lord to keep them from being killed.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z It had been violently bent back, and the combatants had been in and out so many times, they’d beaten a muddy trail. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The newly beaten and untied Wilfred was sniffing noisily in the background. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Arachne had been beaten only once—by Athena herself, and that had taken godly magic and incredible skill in a weaving contest. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Mom, being Mom, had already beaten him to it. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He had a hard fight, for the wise men argued well, but he didn’t know when he was beaten and stood to his colors like a man. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Cora and Caesar roundly beaten by the crowd in preparation for their delivery back to Terrance, and whatever their master had devised to surpass Big Anthony’s torments. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Sigemund had locked the two heads together, so that the fire was beaten back down the Dragon's windpipe by the blast of air from its other mouth. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s beaten me before, but that matters less than knowing he’s a good, fair opponent. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He felt his father rise off him slowly, coming up beaten by a son for the first time in his life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Mike was surprised to see that Kyle had beaten him to the coin jar. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “I had never seen the guy so completely beaten in my life,” he recalled later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I am beaten, spit on, pushed, jeered at. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the morning, when I woke, I was as stiff and sore as if I’d been beaten. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She had beaten me home and asked about my absence, which of course had scared everyone. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been starting to quite like Cedric — prepared to overlook the fact that he had once beaten him at Quidditch, and was handsome, and popular, and nearly everyone’s favorite champion. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The setting sun made the tranquil surface of the water shimmer like a sheet of beaten copper. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I could see that he had been beaten. His face was very puffy and bruised,” said Karl. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The savaged population of Europe stood helpless as plowshares and pruning hooks were literally beaten into swords and spears.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z While he disliked the prospect of getting beaten to a pulp, what worried him even more was the effect it would have on his mother. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I made it through the morning, but I was beaten in the semis and ended up in third place. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z What he had beaten in with his fists he could not supplement easily. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It's filthy, crowded; dead bodies lie stacked in horse-drawn carts in the street; people are shot or beaten for no reason—but inexplicably, there are concerts and plays. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Colonel Aureliano Buendía was the only inhabitant of the house who still did not see the powerful old man who had been beaten down by half a century in the open air. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In 2002, when I was around eight years old, my father heard some heart-stopping news from a friend: Heritage had been spotted in the Congolese city of Bukavu, beaten up and brutalized. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Then came a human trunk and a skull, which looked as if it had been beaten with a heavy metal object. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Bigger felt so empty and beaten that he slid to the floor. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Shin’s second demand was that he be named grade leader at school, a position that would allow him to work less and not be beaten as often. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Upon the wall hung a stick, wound about with ivy leaves, or rather, with a dark metal cunningly beaten to resemble ivy. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z “He was beaten to death at the club. We saw it. The police, remember? They beat him over the head.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z After his hands slipped loose, his knees hit muddy ruts and there was screaming and the sound of bone crushing, hollow white skull bone beaten to bayonet edges by the jungle rain. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He did not like being beaten, so he ran away. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw the muddy path beaten to black mush by many feet, and Kate’s feet standing far to the side out of the mud. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z There were reports that Jews beaten in the streets had been hospitalized only to be beaten again. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Ever since those men had beaten her, her face had been so pinched and tired, her eyes dull like they’d had the light knocked out of them. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Just to the West of the southernmost slope there was a great ring, where the turf had been torn and beaten by many trampling feet. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Still, I had come out here for the satisfaction of giving one punch to Jack for all the times he had tormented me—even if it meant getting beaten up in the end. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I was being beaten to the ground for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and not to mention for being the wrong color. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z But to coerce a confession from him, police officers had beaten Joshua so brutally that even in 1965 the Louisiana Supreme Court felt the need to overturn his conviction. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “There’s a poor kid out here! He’s all beaten up.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He lost his temper and challenged nearly everybody to have a fight, and in those few cases where he did actually have the fight he was invariable beaten. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Sam’s voice faltered as he told her how their friend was beaten in the jail. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z As if they had not just been beaten up by a pair of seventh graders in front of the entire football team and five hundred other people. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A crowd had gathered to stare at Dany with hard black eyes, their faces like masks of beaten copper. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He went into the bar to find some matches, and when he came back she was dipping her dirty finger in the bowl of beaten eggs and licking it greedily. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She was taken in this theft, and condemned to be beaten. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “There is no such thing as freedom, Amari. I tried to escape several times. Each time I was caught by their dogs, beaten, and then sold. You will be caught as well.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She was very lonely that summer, and beaten down. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Jasón’s father had forbidden Jasón to talk to the Indian, he had beaten him, he had tried in every way to keep Jasón from the Indian. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “How long does somebody stay scared when they’ve been beaten senseless?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The Men of Gondor are valiant, and they will never submit; but they may be beaten down. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The dry cleaner’s on the next block over had been held up, the white owner severely beaten. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The walls were covered with thinly beaten gold, and the floor was a marvel of mirrors and sapphire pools. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I try to look beaten and obedient, the way I know Martials like Scholars to look. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He had been beaten as a pup and was terrified of people. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I was sure of one thing: I would not be beaten by her again. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A hand of beaten silver clutched the woolen folds of each cloak and marked their wearers as men of the Hand's household guard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Your magic doesn’t work! You promised me power, but I was beaten in Dowa!” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Such a label, in some neighborhoods, can carry penalties that range from being deemed a social outcast, to being beaten or killed.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z And someone had beaten their dirty rugs right in the hallway, because my red bedroom curtain was gray with dust. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z One night, across the street from their apartment, Bernard was brutally assaulted and beaten by two white men. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Scores of innocent people were arrested, prosecuted, jailed, banished, beaten, tortured, and murdered. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All these men had nothing but contempt for the Yankees, whom they had beaten so often. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Even when the visible army was being beaten on battlefields, Washington’s invisible army was winning victories in the back alleys of the spy war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m running all over town, getting trodden on, beaten up, abused, and for what? I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “She didn’t dare not to. That would be resisting the revolution—she would have been beaten to ...” An Yi choked again. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And indeed with that last stroke the malice of the mountain seemed to be expended, as if Caradhras was satisfied that the invaders had been beaten off and would not dare to return. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Inside my own helplessness I cowered, sure he was going to kill her or hurt her very badly, and the way Mama lay there I believed she was actually ready to be beaten to death. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z In their first of two games on Saturday, the Fugees would face a familiar opponent: Blue Springs Liberty Fire, the team the Fugees had beaten in a 3-2 comeback earlier in the season. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z They passed me by, like beaten dogs, with never a glance in my direction. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Either I went to school and got beaten up. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z People get mugged or beaten up all the time, and in most cases you either get back straightaway or take it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z This had been building up steadily ever since I had led Muslims in the dramatic protest to the police when our brother Hinton was beaten up. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They are beaten by their own fear before the game even begins. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The beaten men stumbled on numb feet to examine their new campsite. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z She couldn’t agree too easily, or he wouldn’t think she was beaten. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Once more, she was looking into the eyes of the woman who had beaten her, threatened her, bought her once, and then sold her again and again. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And she answered him flatly and somberly, “Every day was I beaten.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Two children had beaten him very badly just before. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The path had been beaten down by the four- and three-toed feet of the piglike tapirs that usually live near the water because they love to swim. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The women were beaten and then thrown bodily into cells, where they were beaten again. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z His father tried, ineffectually, to intervene, but this time Moni was beaten up viciously, with a gashed lip and a wound in his forehead that precipitated a visit to the hospital. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z As I was preparing for my meeting with the judges, I was informed by a reliable source that a prisoner in the general section had recently been severely beaten by a guard. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And sometimes the class, as beaten down by the heat as he was, wouldn’t react either. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z When his coach asked him how fast he thought he had gone, Louie replied that he couldn’t have beaten 4:zo. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Arriaga’s Red Cross workers retrieve, on average, ten migrants per month who have fallen or been beaten up by bandits or gangsters. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Elias Motsoaledi, despite having been beaten and tortured in prison, never broke down. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Rowan was never particularly popular, nor was he ever the target of derision before, but now he was cornered and beaten on a regular basis. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Joe walked away from the murder scene, dropped the knife in a nearby alley, and headed to a pay phone to call his father, but the police had beaten him to it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z To be beaten and tortured and who knew what else. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z "Good. Hodor is a man, not a mule to be beaten." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He had been beaten, he whispered to her, and he could hardly walk. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Somehow, Shackleton had always seemed invincible, but even the Boss had been beaten hard by the terrible night. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Maybe, beaten down as he already was and ready to grab on to the thinnest lifeline of hope, he just thought, Do as you're told. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Dr. Benjamin Rush was, after all, living proof that the disease could be beaten. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z One afternoon, as I was returning from work, I spotted one of the Gestapo who had beaten my father. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Great waggons were standing in disorder in a field beaten bare of grass. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Maybe he would have turned them in; maybe he would have beaten them bloody. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z His grandmother told him that if he ever used words like that he would be beaten. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “I’d love to see you get beaten by a girl,” she said happily. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z After all, I was the one who had been beaten up by the older boys when the union went out on strike. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Others trying to come back to the city had been beaten, robbed, murdered on the way. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z My legs throbbed, or rather the insides of my thighs throbbed, with the same force that Mr. Freeman’s heart had beaten. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in April, moments after his varsity boys had beaten California on Lake Washington, the Associated Press had put out a story that was picked up all over the country the next morning. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Others were caught from behind, pulled from their hiding places, beaten, stabbed, and left to die. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z We did not want to be beaten for fighting. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z If they broke a sewing machine, they were not beaten. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z One day we heard that Bogart had been savagely beaten by a warder at the quarry. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A person who believes in Satyagraha will not fight physically, but instead resists through his or her own inner courage, knowing he might be jailed or beaten. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z His hair was rumpled, and he looked exhausted, more tired, more beaten than I’d ever seen him. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z The ravenous Marshall fans go wild at this first indication that Mojo can actually be beaten. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the sound of the wind was being beaten down by the wildness of the sea. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I also noticed that the white girls in school seemed afraid of the black girls, worried that they would get beaten up if they crossed them. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The Greeks could not be beaten back anywhere. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the woman, Ahjuhma, stirring a beaten egg into the pot with long chopsticks; she was wearing the yellow- piped white apron that my mother had once sewn and prettily embroidered with daisies. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Then again, considering how we had ended things after he’d beaten an innocent homeowner bloody, I wouldn’t be surprised if he’d progressed to breaking kneecaps for profit. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It looked like it was made of beaten gold, complete with delicate roses and a glittering butterfly whose wings reminded Aru of stained glass. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z But you could tell that she was beaten. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked weathered, beaten about her purse and pockets. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I eat the rest of the chicken with joy and sadness as I remember how Ma was beaten for trying to get some for Geak. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then something strange happened—something that had never happened when I’d beaten the original game. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The government people might have beaten our family, but there were lots more people out there against us. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Then at last he rose with a snarl, and went before them like a beaten dog. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z You’d think a pig would leave a beaten trail in this wetland, but Crystal hasn’t or, at least, I can’t find it. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the fever and the raging infection, her stepbrother had beaten them to the pancake-house construction site. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s been a while since she’s beaten me this badly in front of the children. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Jews were randomly beaten and close to one hundred were murdered. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The only thing I really excelled at was canoeing, and that wasn’t the kind of heroic skill people expected to see from the kid who had beaten the Minotaur. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z His were worn through, dirty, beaten up, although not missing a single bead of Mama’s tight beadwork. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z As I was guiding my own tour around all these streets, lovesick with the sight of it, I said to myself wearily: “We are beaten, my eyes!” Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z As a result, the police became more savage: prisoners were routinely beaten and we soon heard reports of electric shock, suffocation, and other forms of torture. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Sefia and Archer stumbled to the door, doubled over, breath squeezing in and out of their beaten lungs. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I had seen people beaten on television and in the movies. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The beaten earth appears defeated and dead, but it only appears so. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Some were a full four storeys high; in one block, the fronts of the buildings were decorated with beaten gold. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z They’d have to work to find their voices and not be diminished, to keep themselves from getting beaten down. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I had expected to be beaten to death, by my father, by my mother, by my sisters and brothers. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z More than a few violators were dragged off city buses, some beaten by police. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z There’s pretty much no ethical qualm you can have anymore once you’ve sold out your own people and stood by to watch them get beaten and disappeared. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry,” Lazlo said, hardly knowing what he was sorry for—that Thyon had been beaten, or that he had chanced to see it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Men were beaten; some were shot at in jest. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It was like getting beaten by a zombie, I write. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Khione was not beaten at the Wolf House. She said it was a...ah, what is the term? A tactical retreat.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I had no desire to get beaten up or strung from a lamppost by my hair. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Beaten with whips if they fell, beaten if they failed to keep the pace, they headed slowly away from everything they had once known. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Frank was beaten up a lot by neighborhood kids who taunted him because he was black. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Memories cascade through my head: Darin’s silence when Pop told us of how he set the bones of a child beaten by auxes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He had been beaten by mobs and thrown in jail, and his house had been bombed. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The ferns were thumped and beaten and he heard legs moving in the long grass. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “God’s body, Holly, someone’s beaten hell out of this kid. On Midwinter’s Day, too.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Apparently, three or four inmates had chased and beaten two others as they were leaving the gym. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The crew staggered like dead men, utterly beaten from their labors, trying to pitch tents so they could crawl in to sleep. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z He had made up fifty yards in the last lap and beaten his personal best time by more than eight seconds. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Every time I read about Celie being beaten up, I flashback to when my mother was recently beat by my alcoholic stepdad. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z But Nok could see the uncertainty in his eyes, the horror that he was about to get beaten by someone smaller than him in front of everyone he knew. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The fighter who had beaten him said he’d put up a good fight, said it loud enough for the loser to hear, as they always did. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z His face was bloody where they’d beaten him, and he hung limp, not even trying to stand. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z One of the doormen in the building, with whom Goetz was close, was beaten badly by muggers. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone was forced to watch when a prisoner was beaten, whipped, shot, hanged, or torn apart by the dogs. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The man who had succeeded his entire life, excelling at everything and failing at nothing, was beaten. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “The Germans may have beaten us to it.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I had the choice of being beaten at home or away from home. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt beaten unmercifully on brow, eyes, nose, lips, chin, on shoulders, on upflailing arms. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z It’d been a while since he’d exerted so much energy, and getting the tar beaten out of him by a bunch of trees was an absolute first. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He figured that Javier had beaten him to their meeting place, so Moss left the phone alone, his attention focused on traffic. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Its texture was slightly grainier than it should have been, which makes me think I may have beaten the whites a little too long. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Like Malloy said, the streets had been talking, and the whole block knew, or at least thought they knew, about Needles being beaten up. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z I found out that morning that no one had ever beaten the Vitamin Kid across the bridge, his bridge. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom would have beaten me with the toilet brush if I ever let our bathroom get so filthy. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z But he was riding the momentum of his outrage on Thyon’s behalf, and the flush of solidarity from one beaten boy for another, and above all, the thrill of discovery. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z There was also the night at the deli, when I'd been bitten and stung by insects, and the day when I'd been beaten up at the docks. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Rosaleen had been beaten up, gone without food, slept on the hard ground, and who could say how long before she’d be back in jail or even killed? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z If you do not abide by this, you will be beaten. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z In Concord that day, the British were confronted and soundly beaten by the colonial militia, and from that exchange came the war known as the American Revolution. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They rode the subway out to Coney Island and found that hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers had beaten them there, fleeing the stifling heat of Manhattan even in the middle of the workweek. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z How long was I going to be beaten for trifles and less than trifles? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Mambo had the drum beaten, but the sound disturbed the hearts of the people so much that they crouched on the ground and covered their ears. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z After a long moment, he looked away, beaten. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I felt beaten, and I hated myself for that. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Side by side, we hiked through the overgrown meadow off the beaten path. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Hollin Havilliard, upon finding his porridge burnt, had beaten one of his servants so badly that there was no possibility of it being concealed. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “I’m not laughing because it’s funny. I'm laughing out of relief. I thought you’d been beaten up. I thought this was blood. I’m laughing because it’s only berry juice.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z And she answered in the same dead way, “I was beaten with a leather thong which had been halter for one of the mules, and it hung upon the kitchen wall.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “I think it would be undignified and too much like a small boy thumbing his nose at the back of a larger boy who has beaten him up,” he said. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Like it was his old man’s or somebody’s who he’d beaten up before. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Then I lean over Tess, grab my beaten newsboy cap from the chair, and pull it on. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z She filled the rest of each glass with beaten egg and milk mixed with a little sugar. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z His body shivered like that of a beaten dog. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But no matter what he did he always ended up getting beaten and hurt. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z All of the gas pumps were beaten in, their hoses and nozzles strewn across the concrete. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The people had the glazed, beaten look you only see in airports and prisons. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The boy hunched his head down between his shoulders, like someone used to being beaten for every thoughtless remark. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Besides, and here Inigo felt deep pain, he wasn’t that great a fencer, not any more, he couldn’t be, hadn’t he just been beaten? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z True, I had heard that colored people were killed and beaten, but so far it all had seemed remote. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I insisted that the warder who had beaten Ganya be removed from the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of them would pay me extra to come and watch them being beaten. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z And then I thought about Helena alone in the farmhouse, alone before that with a man who had beaten and neglected her. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z This doctor was of a race which for nearly four hundred years had beaten and starved and robbed and despised Kino’s race, and frightened it too, so that the indigene came humbly to the door. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z It sways off to the side and hits the earth with a silent, beaten thud. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z I came to realize that these were the same people who had beaten me earlier that day, and they continued to beat me, not physically, but emotionally. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z She too had been beaten, her face bleeding and bruised. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z It seemed in no hurry to finish me off now that I was beaten. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Beyond its stony course they saw a beaten path that wound its way under the feet of the westward cliffs. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Incredibly, Woolf’s timing was so good that he rode for more than a decade before he was beaten in a photo finish of a stakes race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z To think about it as a stage in a game, a board beaten only by making it to the end of the day bell. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z More blacks were pulled off streetcars and beaten; even larger mobs of whites roamed the streets, searching for victims. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z It just galled her to think they’d been beaten by a human. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He worried about how much information the Gestapo had beaten out of Helmuth. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She’d proven herself in the tunnels under Rome, beaten a whole series of challenges with only her wits. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The Rebel troops had been beaten there, and the British had taken over the city, but the way Sam wrote about it, he made it seem like a glorious victory for the Rebels. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And in the pearl he saw Juana with her beaten face crawling home through the night. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Between the other vendors—totally beaten and ailing itinerants whose names are something like Buddy, Pal, Sport, Top, Buck, and Ace—and my customers, I am apparently trapped in a limbo of lost souls. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I won’t come back weak and beaten down and because I have nowhere else to go. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He would have beaten him until Rashid was no longer a threat. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The words from across the ocean were beaten out of them over time. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He was reaching his limit, his body still beaten from his encounter with Fedu. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z But he didn’t fear he’d get beaten or anything like that. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Every muscle flexed as he fights to get more of a guy he’s already beaten down. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z She had a large purple bruise on her leg for days but what could I do except stand and watch my wife get beaten? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to be in the same room with Charlie, but I wasn’t about to leave and let him think he’d beaten me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Taking their seats, they felt lucky to have beaten the mob that would follow once everyone learned about the Martian invasion. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z I bite my lip at seeing my brother’s body so badly beaten. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “And I’ve never been beaten at an eating contest,” said Loki. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Perhaps more important, he’d beaten Fischer in their last three meetings and had more wins against Fischer than any living player. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Ku Klux Klan for attempting to vote. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Behind them, slinking like beaten cats, were two children. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z One mother led her beaten and frightened son to the preacher amid shouts of amen and hallelujah. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I was being chased by the gang that had attacked him, and now I was worried about Frank and whoever it was who had beaten him up. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z When she closed her eyes, the only thing she could picture was Father’s beaten and bruised rickshaw. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z If you were beaten for any reason and could not work, then you would be killed. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z There, thought Kaz, the Barrel hasn’t beaten the hope out of you yet. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “You like having me beaten up at school, don’t you ?” “She is very mean, isn’t she?” the emigrant villagers would say. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Laura is raising her girls American style, reading all the new literature, so she knows she shouldn't have beaten Yoyo that time the girl gave them such a scare. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I was weary of being hungry all the time, weary of being beaten all the time: at school, at home and in the streets. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Later we found out that Dad probably would’ve beaten the charges because the Carmichaels had refused to come back to the Keys for a trial. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Captured American and British and Australian soldiers were forced into slave labor, starved, and beaten. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Knowledge is shared freely, old barriers are eliminated as humanity races to find cures for diseases once considered beaten. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I was pretty sure Hercules had fought this thing once, but I couldn’t remember how he’d beaten it. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Women were banned from laughing out loud or wearing nail polish, and they were beaten or jailed for walking without a male family member. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z We walk around the twisting trunks, going off the beaten path toward the trilling croaks of more tree frogs. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He sang of battles and marriages, of funerals and hangings, the whimperings of beaten enemies, of splendid hunts and harvests. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Those boys could have found him, beaten him, and left him lying on the ground. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She was used to having him slouching around the pickle factory, and was used to being beaten from time to time. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z How awful to be harassed, beaten and humiliated in the street, to not be allowed to work or go to school. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They demanded the release of any migrants apprehended the day before—fifteen in all, some of whom were beaten. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z A highway patrolman found Emma Lee walking down the beach road with half of her clothes on, hysterical, her face beaten past all recognition. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At fourteen, the boy on the cover wasn’t much older than they were, but lying in that coffin, beaten beyond recognition, Emmett Till looked more like a monster than a human being. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The rain pounded louder on the tin roof, and she looked up from the note then, at the screen door and the cottonwood tree outside, its leaves beaten flat by the downpour. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The man is a shell, Tyrion thought, the first time he saw the big knight beaten. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He shared a cell at some point with someone who had nearly beaten his girlfriend to death. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z If the dog is being beaten, you can tell the local ASPCA. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Then a contingent of canoeists who had finished their races, and been badly beaten, and were bent on holding a consolation party downstairs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was not exactly that they were afraid of being beaten if she came up. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was exactly how they had beaten the French. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I decide I’d rather be beaten with an oar than sit in the dark ’tween deck waiting to be devoured by sea monsters. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z As Bigwig led the way into the yard, he could make out the shape of the cat that he had beaten, watching from the woodpile. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She smiled again, stepped through in one quick motion, stood, and took off toward a beaten trail. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I was beaten out of my senses and later I found myself in bed, screaming, determined to run away, tussling with my mother and father who were trying to keep me still. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A man dressed as a woman was beaten by a sentry when he tried to rush the gangway. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Bobby had never beaten him, and he revealed to his friends that he thought he might have trouble. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In Jerome a couple of these “acceptgoats,” as Papa had called them, were beaten, but it didn’t stop them from accepting. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z If Uncle Abdullah awoke and found my mother asleep, she would be beaten again. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The light was a candle which the boy bore in a ringstick of beaten copper. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I spent a moment reminding myself that I wasn’t the same filthy little urchin who’d been beaten years ago. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “I’m saying the day I’m beaten just once more, your son is on his own.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I think of his starveling servants, of his urging Cardan to kill one of them for training, of the way he ordered Cardan beaten while professing his love for their family. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The quarters of all the nearby plantations were thoroughly searched and no small number of slaves beaten on principle. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I’ve seen this before—old people in Delmas who see and say too much are often beaten up or killed by young vagabon who have no respect for elders, for life, or for themselves. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He couldn’t have stayed long at the ball if he’d beaten her back here. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “In films and books, children are always getting beaten at school, and then they run away.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z It was the first time in his ten-year career that he had been beaten in a photo finish of a stakes race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Shortly before this, we had learned that a certain PAC man named Ganya had been beaten by a warder. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The road itself beaten to muck under anxious feet. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Being grounded had beaten me down and it was as if being a kid had become a Lost World for me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In the end the earth had given way under them and they had fallen down among some rabbits, whom they had fought and beaten. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The Harvard men beat a hasty retreat, but two of them were knocked down in a doorway and then stomped on, and two others were trapped against a wall and beaten viciously. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “I must look strange to you, all beaten up like this, but I hope I still sound like your old friend.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I remembered my father's story of how he had been beaten blind in a crooked fight, of the scandal that had been suppressed, and how the fighter had died in a home for the blind. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “So, on this day,” Mrs. Grayson continued, “young Zalika, who had never known even one day of joy in her life, decided she would not be beaten again.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z My father had to be pulled off the man, having nearly beaten him to death. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Now, for the first time, I felt the equal of an adult; I knew that I had been beaten for a reason that was not right. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They had all been badly beaten and two could not stand. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If you do not, you will be severely beaten. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z She had been beaten this time, down to her bones beaten. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z They were being beaten and choked, he was surrounded by chaos—it was too much to take in. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He did not give in to people, he only went, from the beginning, with the assurance that he would be beaten. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z It’s like having Cinna beaten to a pulp while I watch from my tribute tube. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The runaway would be beaten, and salt pickle, lime juice, and bird pepper would be rubbed into his or her open wounds. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Thrice was I beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day l have been in the deep. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Another friend named Mwanza was beaten to death in the pub over a girl. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z He remembered an attempt to tie him to a dresser so he could be beaten with an extension cord. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Once the dog has forgotten, it starts dragging its master along again, and again gets beaten and sworn at. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Women could be beaten by their husbands and fathers, as long as the men used a whip no thicker than a thumb. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Turner, who exhibited an opéra bouffe appearance but was a slashing and dangerous player, had beaten Bobby in the previous year’s Rosenwald. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A cool breeze had beaten back the onslaught of summer, and on the morning the Old Man gave us our final exams, he suggested we have class outside. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z They had been operating in Quang Ngai and just southeast of Tam Ky, but the marines had beaten them pretty badly. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I have never been physically shoved around or beaten, but I have had to endure frothy-mouthed harangues from Bible-thumping fanatics, and I have been cursed at, shunned, and mocked openly. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Finn didn’t want to say it, but he wondered if someone had beaten her up. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Nailer remembered the time his father had beaten three opponents in the ring at the same time, on a dare. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Plenty of life beneath the surface but it was kept beaten down by the wheels. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The boys took turns refereeing, winning, losing, being beaten, twisted and torn, from dropkicks, the flying clothesline, and the ever-impressive flapjack spine crusher. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Never mind a hundred enemies; he was disarmed by a single monk and beaten with his own sword. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I’m not going to sit down like the world’s beaten pup anymore. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z It was as if his getting beaten up were the medicine his mother had needed to shake off the blanket of sorrow that had been suffocating her. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Once in a while when I got too far off the beaten path, he would come around and cram a bar of soap in my pocket. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he said, “We’ve made a promise, a group of us, not to quit until the Redcoats are beaten. We’ve made a pledge to each other.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I won’t have this namby-pamby, wishy-washy nonsense about not hitting people who deserve it. A good thrashing is what’s needed in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. Have you been beaten often?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z If you do, you will be beaten and imprisoned. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z And half after that picked up by la migra and sent back to where they came from, or beaten, or arrested. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “I felt plenty of joy in my life without having to be beaten to a pulp,” Rowan told him. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z But in fact the lake is comparatively warm, and so the land surrounding it is less beaten by frost than the surrounding highlands. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z If you keep parakeets, you will be beaten. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z He had a natural mistrust of the inhabitants of other parts of the Shire; and also he was not disposed to be quick friends with anyone who had beaten his master, however long ago. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Oh, no. She gets beaten up all the time. She wouldn’t cry at school about that.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Freedom riders in Montgomery were beaten so severely that an FBI agent said he “couldn’t see their faces through the blood.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z As quickly as they could they scrambled off the beaten way and up into the deep heather and bilberry brushwood on the slopes above, until they came to a small patch of thick-growing hazels. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z As I continued, the trail became less traveled, turning from a corridor of beaten dirt to a line of trampled grass. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He was so beaten and broken and cold that this crawling through the wet sand in the whistling, sea-thundering dark was the hardest thing he had ever had to do. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z If the dog has an accident in the room, it gets beaten again. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z “Yeah, well, that student in the hospital isn’t here to take any practice tests today because he’s, you know, beaten to hell,” EJ said. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z More than 150 men, women, and children were shot or beaten by white or black mobs. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z My back felt as though it had been beaten with wires. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, finally, the clock struck midnight, and as the chimes died out, we heard a cacophony of pots and pans being beaten in the streets all over town. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Seabiscuit had him beaten, but instead of pulling away, he eased himself up and galloped alongside, going just fast enough to keep Exhibit a notch behind. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I know you lived in a world where black folks were hosed and beaten and jailed and killed while fighting for equal rights, but you still managed to be, like, dignified and everything. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Am I beaten, bowed, and broken sufficiently for your liking? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Elsie shrieks as a gorilla hybrid gets frighteningly near, but it’s beaten back by a female agent with a laser whip. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Then perceiving that the valour of the City was already beaten down, the hidden Captain put forth his strength. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z His face had been badly beaten and his body stabbed multiple times. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Camp Hardy happens to be where Lumumba was held, and beaten to within an inch of his life, before his death flight to Katanga. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “My dad has beaten me my whole life,” he explained. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Totally unconcerned about getting stuck, Joe swerved off the beaten path at a good spot, bucking through loose dirt, sand, and muck to where busted trees lay all about. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In a one-on-one brawl, a Neanderthal would probably have beaten a Sapiens. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The indentured worker, whose name was Balasumdaram, had been badly beaten by his employer. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The commander asked him whether or not he had been beaten. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He laughed at all the times he’d been beaten by his drunken father, or been ignored by his drunken mother. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z When they know they’ll be beaten going from one gang area to the next when they walk to school—that’s living in a war zone. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z So Mormont had been chained to an oar, beaten within an inch of his life, starved, and branded. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He was enjoying himself and I could feel myself becoming more and more numb as I was beaten down. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “He has beaten Inigo!” the Turk said, not quite sure he wanted to believe it, but positive that the news was sad; he liked Inigo. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The best Yummy could do for Pollard was chase his hopelessly beaten mounts down the grandstand rail, hollering and frightening spectators. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z If it is prayer time and you are caught doing something other, you will be beaten. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I knew my cousins were getting beaten for things that I’d done, but I wasn’t interested in changing my grandmother’s perspective, because that would mean I’d get beaten, too. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Then she went to see Nanny in Mrs. Wash-burn’s kitchen on the day for beaten biscuits. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Mr. White was, after all, an old black man beaten down by life and she wished she could overlook the liberties he took. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “And ever,” says Malory, “Sir Lancelot wept, as he had been a child that had been beaten.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He was less often a laggard, less often beaten, more often a snitch. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z If you were too obviously foreign, as Bruno was, you risked being beaten up in the street. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It had been a different man Frankie had beaten, first with the butt of a revolver and then with his fists, but the sounds had been the same. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “He’s a beaten man,” said Jem, when they were riding home to dinner. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z You could get mugged or beaten up if you strayed down an alley, or knocked on the wrong door. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The United Party and General Smuts had beaten the Nazis, and surely they would defeat the National Party. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The picture blew away like the ashes that had been beaten in the mortar so long ago in the village, the day Vatete died. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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