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Dr. William Eleazar Barton, foremost Lincoln scholar, has flayed such gossip as baseless and untrue.

From Time Magazine Archive

It would be an understatement to say that Malcolm Muggeridge has debunked Butler: he has flayed him, skinned him alive.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Liberty has flayed Prohibition, on occasion, on its editorial page; has published articles revealing the iniquities of bootleggers and Prohibition agents.

From Time Magazine Archive

His arm is impotent; not so his satire, which still in its velvet covering bears the fearful knife that has flayed alive so many a Maryas.

From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various