“Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually we don't like it very much.”
“Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge down the beaten path.”
“The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows”
“Now I have beaten a song back into you, rise and walk away like a panther.”
“Ye are a scoundrel, a black-hearted robber and a rogue,' Stubble said cheerily to the grumbling captain. It was his usual way of haggling, and he'd beaten down the riverman to a decent price for conveying himself and Anvar to Lankarn.”
“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”