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Why," said Phil, "I couldn't believe my eyes at first; but true it was, all the same,—there was our gentle 'rosebud' pommelling away at a fellow nearly twice his size!

From We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses by Yechton, Barbara, [pseud.]

Presently they reached a point from which the cistern-keeper was visible, seated, as usual, just within the door pommelling the pavement.

From The Prince of India — Volume 02 by Wallace, Lewis

“He's afraid,” said the boy who had advised the more severe pommelling, “old 'fraid-cat!”

From Five Little Peppers at School by Heyer, Hermann

A bag stuffed with hay is so round that it is very difficult to keep upon it without rolling off, and there was much pommelling and flattening before the beds were at all tenable.

From The Madcap of the School by Salmon, Balliol

As the clenched fist likewise somewhat resembles an apple, perhaps that might occasion the term pommelling to be applied to fisty-cuffs.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis