Suppose some brisk little chap steps up and gives me a caning in St. James's Street, with all the heads of my friends looking out of all the club windows.
Bonhag, during the first few days in which he trained Cowperwood in the art of caning chairs, managed to make it perfectly clear that there were a number of things he would be willing to do for him.
At the same time, he could not help thinking, if he seemed strange to himself, now, how much stranger he would seem then, behind these narrow bars working at so commonplace a task as caning chairs.
Caning was not allowed at Putnam Hall, but evidently Jasper Grinder meant to take matters in his own hands.
Dick was almost as tall as the school-teacher, and probably just as strong, and the idea of a caning appeared ridiculous in the extreme.
I used at first to wonder what comfort Traddles found in drawing skeletons; and for some time looked upon him as a sort of a hermit, who reminded himself by those symbols of mortality that caning couldn't last for ever.
Caning of chairs went out of fashion till the end of the century.
Darnley, who thought more of the happiness of renewing his acquaintance with Penelope than of the pleasure of caning a graceless varlet, readily promised mercy upon confession.
Now Muggins thought that if he was destined to receive a caning for a violation of his trust, he need not add to his troubles by provoking Mr Darnley to administer an extra application to him for refusing to dismount.
I used at first to wonder what comfort Traddles found in drawing skeletons; and for some time looked upon him as a sort of hermit, who reminded himself by those symbols of mortality that caning couldn't last for ever.
It might be said that the discipline of a school cannot be maintained unless the boys be frequently caned, that it must be either caning or expulsion.
I was all screwed up tight, and would have taken my caning without so much as a squeak.
My dear Middleton, I can produce more effect by one caning than twenty floggings.
Caning they considered their natural portion, and felt no ill will on that account; while they knew that Mr. Moffat was a capital scholar and, though strict, was always scrupulously just.
His treatment consists in the use of anona bark which has power over the witchcraft, and in bad cases a good caning is often administered, or, the last resort, bathing in boiling water.
And a jolly good caning you’ll get, Kitty, when Gumshoe has had his talk with the Doctor.
As for you, Wilson, you shall be reported immediately to the Head, and if my recommendation can effect it, you will receive the caning you deserve.
The punishment meted out to Haydn for this offence was slight--a mere caning on the hand; but the indignity and disgrace of being caned before the whole school was not to be borne.
These little panels were also used in the center of cobweb caning in chair backs and settees.
The chair backs remained high and narrow, but the carving slowly grew simpler and the caning at last went entirely across the back.
I recollect my old governorcaning me in that little room," Sir Francis said sententiously; "he always hated me, my old governor.
Do you think I'm to put up with his talking of caning me, and such like, because of his being a young gentleman?
At a chair-seating factory, I saw several girls caning chairs for the proprietor, who receives orders from stores.
A royal caning often repaid any unlucky artist who made a blunder, much to the gratification of the audience.
