rain blows on

Old friends who never seemed to care about politics now seem ready to rain blows on those who disagree with their radical views.

Two cartoonish cops with malevolent Mr Punch faces and raised nightsticks wait to rain blows on a black boy, who Basquiat has drawn as a faceless silhouette, passing between them into the blue sky.

The sight of the two locked in furious conflict horrified her, her grasp relaxed, she let the book fall; and as Hawkesworth, recovering from his surprise, gripped her brother's throat and by main force bent him backwards--the lad never ceasing to rain blows on the taller man's face and shoulders--she fled to the door, opened it, and screamed for help.

But as soon as the beast was brought down he would rain blows on it with high valour.

But instead of desisting in his cruelty, the man continued to rain blows on the prostrate and half-unconscious body of the Indian.