Of Jane Austen he wrote: "Every time I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shinbone.
He beat her over the head with a bottle before raping and strangling her and arranging her body in a field in a sexually provocative pose.
On another occasion Christina recalls her mother dragging her from bed in the middle of the night, aged nine, to beat her over the head with a can of scouring powder for leaving soap streaks on a bathroom floor.
"Every time I read Pride and Prejudice, I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone," he fumed.
In May 2016, police found a woman incoherent on the side of a road after her boyfriend beat her over the head with a handgun.
Instead, Hawker, a 36-year-old British ultrarunner, was intent on beating her time over the same route from 2007, which was 74 hours 36 minutes nonstop.
The United States salvaged some pride when Natalie Coughlin, recovered from shoulder problems that troubled her for two years, ended the backstroke winning streak of Romania's Diana Mocanu, beating her by 0.31 seconds over 100 meters.
She then won the freestyle title with a magnificent score of 84.750%, beating her nearest rival by over five percentage points thanks to a musical routine which included excerpts from Land of Hope and Glory and also featured Big Ben's chimes, plus a quotation from Shakespeare's Richard II. "Knowing my friends and family were in the audience was really special.
Jacobs seemed to hold a psychological and competitive edge over Favor Hamilton, beating her repeatedly.
Juan Williams points out that a) Palin was running for Vice President, and b) the national media was all over Kennedy, beating her with sticks.
