He had some skill in the correction of misprints, and would have been better employed in revising proof - sheets for Froude than in "belabouring" him. ❋ Unknown (1894)
But, then, one damned thing leads to another: in this case, an even limper Times leader berating BBC Radio Lincolnshire and some 70 other blameless, bemused stations or channels as engines of "domination" of poor little Sky – plus a matching Sun tirade from Kelvin MacKenzie belabouring the "duds" who lack Rupert's spunk. ❋ Peter Preston (2010)
The hormone imbalances make them prone to lashing out … as well as belabouring points made by others. ❋ Unknown (2010)
“Never mind being a scholard,” says my favourite horticulturalist, belabouring him with a broom, “get out and sweep up they leaves.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
You always make me laugh with your ridiculous arguments belabouring a tired point. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A fellow dived on him, grabbing his wrist, the squawking woman was belabouring me with her gamp, Joe was hurling his attacker aside ... but by that time I was going through the dining section like Springheeled Jack, sending a table flying as I plunged through the kitchen door. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The young man changed over to belabouring the door with his boots. ❋ Thomas Plastino Martin (2010)
A group of mutineers walking round the barracks, belabouring one of our native cooks who was limping along under a great load of pans. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Thou wendest forth at the call to dawn prayer and thou returnest not till sundown; and through the livelong day thou endurest all manner hardships; to wit, beating and belabouring and bad language. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Thereupon all fell on him and beat him; 652 and when tired of belabouring him they shouted, O ye Moslems! ❋ Unknown (2006)
Thereupon he clenched his fist and struck him on the neck, felling him to the ground, and called aloud to the watchman of the bazaar, and came down on the body in his drunken fury and kept on belabouring and throttling the corpse. ❋ Unknown (2006)
My brother could not return him a reply, being tongue tied for terror; so the blackamoor seized him and stripped him of his clothes and bashed him with the flat of his sword blade till he fell to the ground, swooning from excess of belabouring. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Whereupon there came out upon me folk, whence I know not, and funding me with a belabouring which was a Sister of Death, thrust me forth; nor do I know what befell me after this. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The film works hard at pressing no, belabouring with a sledgehammer all the favourite hot buttons of free speech, freedom of thought, the right of dissent, the right to be heard, the right to discuss issues rather than suppress argument. ❋ Steve Caldwell (2008)
As soon as they had reached the doors of any particular house, the attack began, some hurling in their spears, others belabouring with their clubs, which they carried, it was said, for the purpose of knocking off the lance points from the shaft. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Slightly gratuitous with the gay kissing - it really isn't a point that needs a lot of belabouring. ❋ Curufea (2007)
At the risk of belabouring the obvious, JMS, you badly need an irony transplant. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Protestantism with Frederick; who was belabouring the Protestant ❋ Unknown (2006)
These are two things I find myself constantly belabouring in my classes when teaching problem solving: ❋ Darren Kuropatwa (2005)
