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Definition of Belaboured
1. belabour [v] - See also: belabour
Lexicographical Neighbors of Belaboured
Literary usage of Belaboured
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curran and his contemporaries by Charles Phillips (1850)
"Mr Nicholas Philpot Leader fell one evening under his extreme displeasure, and
was belaboured accordingly. Leader's hair, it must be premised, was somewhat ..."
2. Shrewsbury: A Romance by Stanley John Weyman (1898)
"I managed to utter a cry, then instinctively covered my head with my arms.
They belaboured me until they were tired and I almost senseless; when, ..."
3. The Men of the Time in 1852, Or, Sketches of Living Notables by David Bogue (1852)
"taloon in his time tumbled over and belaboured one another, and bawled out their
jokes, before the most beautiful and dazzling pictures which ever were ..."
4. The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calandar of Popular by William Hone (1835)
"... tors were in amazement to sec his body that had been so belaboured by devils,
in the same shape in which it was before his retirement. ..."
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