The average Englishman considers it proper that two men who get into a dispute shall pull off their coats, and settle the question at issue by pummeling each other's noses.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
Two midgets, arguing the question as to which of them was the Smallest Man in the World, had become so heated that they fell to pummeling each other with their tiny fists.
"The-Circus-Boys-Across-the-Continent-or-Winning-New-Laurels-on-the-Tanbark"
Darlington, Edgar B. P.
The old men say it is bad to cut off a chicken's head - it is like taking a human head, and, besides, they say that the pummeling makes the flesh on the bony wings and neck larger and more abundant - so all fowls killed are beaten to death.
"The Bontoc Igorot"
Albert Ernest Jenks