Accordin' to him Dunlavey had corraled that Hazelton girl outside an' was tellin' her somethin' pretty strong when a tenderfoot, which hadn't any regard for Dunlavey's delicate feelin's, up an' lambasted him in the jaw!"
"The Coming of the Law"
Charles Alden Seltzer
You lambasted me afore all Happy Valley last Sunday an' now I'm a-goin' to lick you fer it.
"In Happy Valley"
John Fox
Pisgah when my dad lambasted you in his sermon for fiddlin' for the dance Saturday night.
"The Desert Fiddler"
William H. Hamby