Perhaps Brodie as the ultimate argument had manhandled him.
"The Everlasting Whisper"
Jackson Gregory
He had once, with hardly more than a lightning lunge, broken a truck driver's wrist in an office altercation over some manhandled scenery, and gone home rather sick because the fellow's opened cheek had bled down over his desk.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst
So he pulled Mr. Ashton across the desk by 'is neck- manhandled 'im awful, and 'e told 'im-" "What!
"Out of the Primitive"
Robert Ames Bennet