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6 total sentences available.
With this mighty resolution framed and glassed, and hung over his bed, along with a pleasing representation of a gleaming eye, bearing the legend, "Thou, God, seest me," he managed by bearing himself humbly among his fellows, or rather, by having humility thrust upon him, to avert for a period such calamity as doth befall the Sunday swimmer, the fruit stealer, the school wagger, the root smoker, the Chinaman pelter, and the window smasher.
Source: wiktionary
Sketching is always a peltable or mobable offence, as being contrary to the Koran, and sitting down tempts the pelter.
Source: wiktionary
Young stone-pelters took to the streets and faced armed police who fired straight at them, killing several.
Source: wiktionary
A person is "peltered" when he is subjected to a shower of stones, a shower of hail-stones, or a shower of anything. "Naay, gi'e ower peltering — one at a time! that's enew."
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include cloudburst, critic, deluge, downpour, furriers.
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