Her dark-robed priests and priestesses were familiar figures in the Augustan age, Gashing themselves like the Galli of Magna Mater, catching the blood in shields, and dashing it over their train of followers who believed in its powers of expiation.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
The Commandant winced, and came within an ace of Gashing himself severely.
"Major Vigoureux"
A. T. Quiller-Couch
Reason, and thought, and even sense of pain were lost in brutal fury, as they writhed, and clutched, and dug at one another, Gashing their knuckles, and gnashing their teeth, frothing with one another's blood, for Carne bit like a tiger.
"Springhaven A Tale of the Great War"
R. D. Blackmore