For the topics he argued and his fashion of arguing them, Bating a not excessive exaggeration, comes home to them all.
"Bardell v. Pickwick"
Percy Fitzgerald
See where thine honest zeal hath landed thee, Bating my wrath, and blunting my desire!
"The Seven Plays in English Verse"
Sophocles
And to think that not one of us was there to give them a Bating."
"On the Pampas"
G. A. Henty