Citations:beaten


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * But the rain was so violent that my tent was ready to be beaten down with it; and I was forced to go into my cave, though very much afraid and uneasy, for fear it should fall on my head.
 * All the stern and quarter of her were beaten to pieces by the sea; and as her forecastle, which stuck in the rocks, had run on with great violence, her mainmast and foremast were brought by the board—that is to say, broken short off; but her bowsprit was sound, and the head and bow appeared firm.


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * It was a place fitted for such a work, being hardly more than a rock whose high sides were continually beaten upon by the waves.
 * Several other men were examined concerning my landing, and they agreed that, with the strong north wind that had arisen during the night, it was very probable that I had beaten about for many hours and had been obliged to return nearly to the same spot from which I had departed.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * All he could make out was, that it was still very foggy and extremely cold, and that there was no noise of people running to and fro, and making a great stir, as there unquestionably would have been if night had beaten off bright day, and taken possession of the world.