batt

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Jean Bool!—I vas not know him—yes, I vas— I vas remember dat, von year or two, I saw him at von place call'd Vaterloo— Ma foi! il s'est tres joliment battu, Dat is for Englishman—m'entendez-vous?

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James

Remembering her personal dislike of the Emperor, and forgetting that she was a Frenchwoman, he said to her, on his return to Paris, "Je l'ai bien battu."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 by Various