He took the whip and stood up to belabour the wretched sleeper about the neck, face and shoulders.

But he was more concerned to belabour John Redmond and to dig Devlin in the ribs than to argue merits of measure.

It is exhausting to belabour a thick-skinned and obstinate animal with a stick.

For Evan Thomas could scarcely come at a time of such affliction to assert his claims of wreck, and to belabour right and left.