Sun and shower alternated like day and night, making the hours longer by their variety. When the showers were heavy, I could feel each drop striking through my jersey to my warm skin; and the accumulation of small shocks put me nearly beside myself. I decided I should buy a mackintosh at Noyon. It is nothing to get wet; but the misery of these individual pricks of cold all over my body at the same instant of time made me flail the water with my paddle like a madman. The CIGARETTE was greatly amused by these ebullitions. It gave him something else to look at besides clay banks and willows.英文原著 · 《An Inland Voyage》
In a moment he came running back, brandishing a great axe about his head. "Come on, Wullie!" he cried. "'Scots wha hae'! Noo's the day and noo's the hour! Come on!"
On. the table before him, serene and beautiful, stood the target of his madness. The little man ran at it, swinging his murderous weapon like a flail. "Oor's or naebody's Wulliel Come on.英文原著 · 《Bob Son of Battle》
Perhaps some such story as this may account in part for Mrs. Frere's sad looks. Why do I speculate on such things? I seem to do violence to myself and to insult her by writing such suspicions. If I was a Flagellant now, I would don hairshirt and up flail. "For this sort cometh not out but by prayer and fasting."
April 7th.--Mr. Pounce has arrived--full of the importance of his mission. He walks with the air of a minister of state on the eve of a vacant garter, hoping, wondering, fearing, and dignified even in his dubitancy.英文原著 · 《For the Term of His Natural Life》
Oh to hear her descant on the merits of the flail, wielded by a stout right arm, such as she had known in her youth (for by her account there was as great a deterioration in bones and sinews as in the other implements of husbandry), was enough to make the very inventor break his machine. She would even take up her favourite instrument, and thrash the air herself by way of illustrating her argument, and, to say truth, few men in these degenerate days could have matched the stout, brawny, muscular limb which Mrs. Sally displayed at sixty-five.英文原著 · 《Our Village》
``When do I get to meet that cutie?'' he insisted, as Johnnie Watson moved backward from the cousinly arm, which threatened further flailing. ``You intradooced me to about seven I can't do much FOR, but I want to get the howdy business over with this Miss Pratt, so I and she can get things started. I'm goin' to keep her busy all day!''英文原著 · 《Seventeen》
The farmer's tools were no less crude than his wife's. His plough had been little improved since the days of Rameses. He sowed his wheat by hand, cut it with a sickle, flailed it out upon the floor, and laboriously winnowed away the chaff.英文原著 · 《The Age of Invention》
You flail at me wildly and then y. you put your chin right there.美剧 · 《Billions》
His legs flail about as if independent from his body.美剧 · 《Friends》