batter back

Her mind battered back and forth like a caged animal.

Hearing it, he clutched her close and battered back his own passions, refusing to give in to himself.

Her long, blond hair covered a spiny, battered back.

He felt for it as he sat there, battered back and forth by waves of revelers.

Though off guard, they battered back and managed to ward off the clubbing guns.

That's why issues are battered back and forth -- in our favor one year and not the next."

Ole Doc was trying to say something but each attempt was battered back and drowned in the tumult.

The hot moisture that sprung to her eyes was rapidly battered back by her fluttering lids.

The swells grew into waves and the ship was battered back and forth, now just going with the flow, no longer able to chart its own course.

Mapes tried to batter back his assailants with his naked fists, but the flailing arms of the horde knocked him from his feet.

Roeder's shout was battered back and forth by the peculiar acoustics of the chamber, seemingly designed to focus any sound, however slight, upon a central pit, near which he stood.

Tshamarra ducked her head to avoid Embra's boots and clung to Craer's shoulders, biting her lip as she saw Blackgult being battered back and forth by violently kicking feet.

The plan is now for Mr. Bush to campaign all-out starting immediately after the Democrats leave Boston, when he will try to batter back what the Republicans expect to be John Kerry's post-convention bounce.

We had no truck with the upstart Western Ferries, remaining resolute in our loyalty to MV Juno and Jupiter, two banging wee boats that battered back and forward on the Clyde.

The criticism that banks were "too big to jail" resonated within the DoJ, which for five years has battered back criticism for not bringing any criminal cases against financial institutions for their role in the credit crisis.

The result was a clash of metal as The Shadow battered back, parrying every stroke so skillfully that, before they realized it, the detectives were hammering at each other with every third stroke and missing The Shadow completely with the blows that came between.