Battered

Examples

• When later, Carlyle and Ruskin battered the economists into silence with invective and irony they were voicing the dumb protest of the humane people of England. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The relic-hunter battered at these persistently, and sweated profusely over his work. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I suppose you are only just come down--you look rather battered--you have not been long enough in the town to hear anything? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I beg that you will look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual problem. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I am much too battered and old for such a fine young lady as Glorvina. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I saw none but what was dated four or five hundred years back, and was badly worn and battered. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There can, I think, be no doubt that this battered and shapeless diadem once encircled the brows of the royal Stuarts. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Lily, to whom the name conveyed nothing, opened the door upon a woman in a battered bonnet, who stood firmly planted under the hall-light. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Sebastopol is probably the worst battered town in Russia or any where else. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• On Egdon Heath Sunday proper did not begin till dinner-time, and even then it was a somewhat battered specimen of the day. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I thought he looked rather battered and depressed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• What can you gather from this old battered felt? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I struck at the skylight, and battered in the cracked, loosened glass at a blow. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Meantime the clothier did not neglect his battered mill. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She won't have anything to say to a battered old hulk like that, sir. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.

Typed by Blanche