I Whaled the wadding out of that bucko woods-boss of Pennington's, and as a special compliment to you, John Cardigan, I did an almighty fine job of cleaning.
"The Valley of the Giants"
Peter B. Kyne
We've Whaled all the chaff out of the old straw, but it doesn't do any good.
"The Lash"
Olin L. Lyman
And then Jim didn't get Whaled, and the venerable justice didn't read the tearful school a homily, and take George by the hand and say such boy deserved to be exalted, and then tell him come and make his home with him, and sweep out the office, and make fires, and run errands, and chop wood, and study law, and help his wife do household labors, and have all the balance of the time to play and get forty cents a month, and be happy.
"Sketches New and Old, Part 1."
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)