Then he caned me for insolence, combined with irreverence, and made me write out about Gideon and the dew upon the fleece twenty-four times; which I did.
I obeyed, stretching out my right hand as far as I could and displaying no perturbation, though I was wondering what it would be like to be caned on the hand.
Fillet was winning; he had won when he caned me for asking the number of the sum; he had won when he gave me the thousand lines; and now he was assaulting in mass formation with the whole school as his allies.
The pain in my hand was exactly the same as when Radley caned me years before on the left hand: and I was reminded of the scene.
I will though, Henderson; if I'm to have nothing but canings and floggings, I may just as well be caned and flogged for something as for nothing.
He canedthem for defying their house-captain, and reprimanded them for imagining that dogs could be permitted under the school roof.
To be caned during the first week of the term was not quite in accordance with their good resolutions, and to be bereft of the Smileys was a cruel outrage on their natural affections.
You were to be caned because you left the heath and entered a house without leave--not because you had been cheated of your money.
And do you remember when I got canedfor crying about Mr. Mell?
The dark mark of fate and doom was on the threshold--the tall old threshold surmounted by coronets and caned heraldry.
So there was splendour and wealth, but no great happiness perchance, behind the tall caned portals of Gaunt House with its smoky coronets and ciphers.
It was said by the envious that Broadbent was the midnight poacher on whom Mr. Washington set his dogs, and whom he caned by the river-side at Mount Vernon.
I had him turned out of the Hague myself when I was ambassador, and I know he was caned in Vienna.
And you consider it necessary that at least fifteen out of that thirty should be caned every day.
Of course I caned them, especially as I knew that they were telling a lie.
You caned them just the same as if they had done it themselves.
The consequence was, that Mr Gordon caned Barker soundly, although, with some injustice, he made no attempt to conceal that he did it unwillingly.
When one of his councillors advised against the folly, he caned him and sent him into exile.
When Tordenskjold heard of it and met the Colonel in another man's house, he caned him soundly and threw him out in the street.
You shall certainly leave," retorted the Capellmeister, "but you must be caned first.
Discipline must be maintained; and Reutter sentenced the culprit to be caned on the hand.
Six months after, things were worse, and the piping eye was black, And this gallant British husband caned his wife upon the back.
Like his friend, Voltaire, he had been caned more than once.
I felt my choler rising, and would have given my sword to have had my hand in his collar at that moment; he had already been caned twice, and ought to have been bastinadoed.
As they were talking, a mate, half drunk, proposed that Snelgrave should be kept as a pilot till they left the coast, but Davis caned him off the quarter deck.
When some of the men cried out that they had never seen a gun fired in anger, Cocklyn caned them, telling them they should soon learn to smell gunpowder.
John told him to repeat what he had said, and he did, and John caned him.
I have also been caned hard on both hands for writing to dear Mrs Hudson, and for calling Miss Henniker bad names.
I came, followed of course by the Henniker; and in Mr Ladislaw's study I wascaned on both hands.
Buslut ang kalat sa katri, The caned portion of the bed is broken.
After he had caned three or four children he became good tempered, when he caned half a dozen he got tired of his task and allowed the remainder (if any remained) to go scot free.
Although this lad got caned on an average three times a day, he never cried when he was beaten; still, Norah Ryan felt mutely compassionate for him when she heard the sharp hazel rod strike like a whiplash against his hand.
The average boy is expected to write Latin prose and is caned for a false quantity in verses.
Hallows and Heatherington have each lectured both of them, and Hallows has caned Gillman frequently, but they refuse to give up the friendship.
Edmund explained, and the master at once caned him for not speaking the truth.
It's only a thunder shower," said the master, and caned Edmund more than ever.
He had to go to school next day, and he was caned for being absent without leave--although he very straightforwardly explained that he had been too busy making the lantern to have time to come to school.
He told the boys at school about the cockatrice and his wonderful true tales, and the boys liked the stories; but when he told the master he was caned for untruthfulness.
And then the master caned Edmund again, explaining that this time it was not for untruthfulness, but for his vexatious argumentative habits.
The master caned him again, and then Ch'eng told him how the matter stood, at which the former became full of admiration for his pupil's kind behaviour, and no longer prevented him from going.
The master replied that he didn't know where Ch'eng had been all the morning, but that he had caned him for playing truant.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
