Any way Patsy Flaherty gave over lambasting the old mare, and she stood still, the way you'd think she was glad of the rest.
"The Simpkins Plot"
George A. Birmingham
Here, throwing off his critic's black gown, his lays about him right and left, knocking the reigning idols off their perches; resurrecting the old, old dead and trying to pump the breath into them; lambasting on one page and lauding on the next; lampooning his fellow critics and burlesquing their rubber stamp fustian; extolling Dussek and damning Wagner; swearing mighty oaths by Mozart, and after him, Strauss-not Richard, but Johann!
"A Book of Prefaces"
H. L. Mencken
At supper Van Amberg's Great Moral Menagerie received a lambasting that boded no good for its future in Brownsville.
"Watch Yourself Go By"
Al. G. Field