Crossword-Solution: TROUNCE 7 letters, 52 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Then Apollin in's grotto they surround, And threaten him, and ugly words pronounce: "Such shame on us, vile god!, why bringest thou? This is our king; wherefore dost him confound? Who served thee oft, ill recompense hath found." Then they take off his sceptre and his crown, With their hands hang him from a column down, Among their feet trample him on the ground, With great cudgels they batter him and trounce.

The felon Guene, all in his iron chains Is in that town, before the King's Palace; Those serfs have bound him, fast upon his stake, In deer-hide thongs his hands they've helpless made, With clubs and whips they trounce him well and baste: He has deserved not any better fate; In bitter grief his trial there he awaits.

Hip, hip, hurrah! hip, hip, hurrah! Hip, hip, hurrah! hurrah! hurrah! We'll shout and sing Long live the King, And his daughter, too, I trow! Then shout ha! ha! hip, hip, hurrah! Hip, hip, hip, hip, hurrah! For the fair Princess and her good papa, Hurrah, hurrah! Hildebd: But if he fail to keep his troth, Upon our oath, we'll trounce them both! Chorus: He'll trounce them both, Upon his oath, As sure as quarter-day! Hildebd: We'll shut him up in a dungeon cell, And toll his knell on a funeral bell.

Wilt have my crop and trounce thy Dad again!" He picked up the crop from the place where she had thrown it, and forthwith gave it in her hand.

But rest assured! be happy, sir! I will make the king see him in his true colours! Rest content, sir! I will trounce him! He has to do with Armand de Boisrose!” Seeing that he was not open to argument,--for, indeed, being opposed, he grew exceedingly warm,--I asked him by what channel he intended to approach the king, and learned that here he felt a difficulty, since he had neither a friend at court nor money to buy one.