A second later, funky beats and distorted guitars kicked in, and then quirky hip-hop-style vocals with a country-and-Western lounge-lizard overlay.

the footing of a stocking

But the children did; they were left to the tender mercy of their old Mother and were allowed to enjoy nearly a full hour of nakedising.

[…] this jail keeper took a piece of board with holes bored through it (what you call a paddle) and cobbed him and cobbed him, and, then they took salt and washed him.