By this Perowne understands that honor is to be satisfied by a thorough beating.
But Gil's body had undergone a thorough beating in the last decade.
This belief has already taken a thorough beating, even including a public recantation from its former high priest, Alan Greenspan.
L.S.U.'s previous defeat was a 10-9 heartoreAuburno Auburn last month, but this was a thorough beating, one that Tigers Coach Nick Saban found hard to stomach.
An average African woman cannot say no to her husband: the consequences are a thorough beating or divorce, and most African women cannot afford divorce.
The Burleyites took a thorough beating at these Games, watching as not just Guardian-types but the nation exalted in the success of a team as diverse as any British city.
Mr. Van Hollen acknowledged that his analysis was an effort to find a smidgen of good news in a thorough beating, as Democrats found themselves defending seats in Republican territory during bad economic conditions while facing a backlash from many voters against an aggressive Democratic agenda.
St Mirren's relegation torment continues at least for another 24 hours after a thorough beating by Hearts.
Before the season, UCLA was said to have the better team, better quarterback, better coach, better schedule and better chance to win the Pac-12, but after their latest epic fail, in the form of a thorough beat-down administered by the far superior and more talented Trojans, it's clear the Bruins better get used to this.
President Obama described the results as "a shellacking" -- a slang term for a thorough beating (no one is sure how the word, which originally referred to applying a coat of shiny polish to something, came to mean the same as "thrashing," "drubbing" or "pounding". Bonus discussion: how do you think "shellacking" came to mean a big defeat?).
Perhaps other teams have played more difficult schedules, but it is hard to imagine a more thorough, all-around beating than the one the Jaguars administered to one of those tested teams Saturday.
