Pelted
[peltid]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Pelt
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Examples
- Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The sun so pelted us that the tears ran down our cheeks once or twice. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And that if you got pelted, interposed Mrs. Cadwallader, half the rotten eggs would mean hatred of your committee-man. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mas'r and Tom pelted the poor drowning creature with stones. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Think what it must be to be pelted for wrong opinions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You will make a Saturday pie of all parties' opinions, and be pelted by everybody. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There came, when they were about midway on their journey, a heavy rush of hail, which in a few minutes pelted the streets clear, and whitened them. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He slipped down from his saddle, scrabbled up dirt and stones with his hands, and pelted these fine gentlemen, shouting abuse. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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