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By 1916 the New Republic was behind President Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt was flaying it.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of his lawyers had the floor and was flaying Eaton with a vitriolic tongue, the while men craned forward all over the room to get a glimpse of the traitor's face.

From Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) by Raine, William MacLeod

Suffering was flaying the naked despair and yearning; and just then Temptation knocked softly and pitifully at the door of the outer room!

From Joyce of the North Woods by Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)