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A version of this review appears in print on January 17, 2014, on page C21 of the with the headline: With Rage, He Flails In a World Gone Deaf.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2014

Flails and gunnysacks beat these down and smothered them.

From Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by Raine, William MacLeod

She had jumped up and drawn back from the track when the Flails ran away.

From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah

Flails had been made by tying pieces of wood to cricket stumps.

From Three Years in Tristan da Cunha by Barrow, Katherine Mary