An actress of a certain age, Peil knows what it means to be battered about, and to keep going anyway.
"I do not feel any particular sympathy," he said, in 1903, "for the person who gets battered about a good deal so long as it is not fatal".
Like it or not, we're all going to spend the next six weeks being relentlessly battered about the face by suffocatingly twee Christmas adverts.
Still, Mr Smith can be battered about more than some cabinet ministers because he is neither in the camp of Gordon Brown's or that of Tony Blair.
"He gets battered about and shoved off the ball and doesn't get too much.
Sparks and embers whizzed past my truck as it was battered about by the chaos.
He threw it in a corner and went outside and got an old tin can and started battering it about with a stick.
A moat of dark, bright gravy pools into an undulating bank of mashed potato, and a few token baby carrots lie about like battering rams.
Ryder said, "Don't you have a sense of humor?" "I said, 'There's nothing funny about battering women,' " Ms. Verin, an interior and product designer, recalled.
You always talk about battering Justin Bieber, for some reason, even though everyone else has accepted he's actually kind of sound.
