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Example sentences for "flogged"

Lexicographically close words:
flode; flodes; floe; floes; flog; flogger; flogging; floggings; flogs; flom
  1. His story is that he was flogged by the mate of his ship at Callao, that he jumped with the mate into the water, and after a chase on shore he stabbed him.

  2. Kirkdale, age 21; seven years and flogged for robbery with violence.

  3. Afterwards, as you know, Prince, the overseer flogged my father as I heard Khuaka order him to do if he lagged through weariness, and then Khuaka killed him because my father in his madness struck the overseer with a mattock.

  4. I cried again as the charioteer flogged the horses, but no answer reached our ears.

  5. He added that if the man were flogged he and all those under his command would leave the camp and march back to make report to Pharaoh.

  6. Thereupon an overseer ran up and flogged him with a cruel whip cut from the hide of the sea-horse.

  7. It's very hard I'm to be flogged more than they!

  8. I'd rather be flogged at once, as I have been many's the good time for a less thing.

  9. They were led by a desperate convict, said to have been flogged unjustly; and numbering at times from twenty to thirty, kept the district in a state of alarm.

  10. But he calmly gave you to understand that he would not accelerate his movements, or start when unwilling, if you flogged him to death.

  11. He did get away, however, and flogged that bullock over the face and eyes until he was more than half blinded.

  12. Every soul knows it except my father and Mr. Horncastle, and they will never hear a word, but will have it that I am possessed with a spirit of evil that is to be flogged out of me.

  13. Those that are cowards had better retire and be satisfied with future floggings; but you, who have courage, and know what it is to have been flogged for nothing, come here and sign your names.

  14. During the first week I still had a holiday; I went about the town to all the places of drill, and saw how the officers inspected and flogged the soldiers, so that beforehand for very fear, great drops of sweat broke out on my brow.

  15. It was not always the worst men who were hunted to death by running the gauntlet for repeated desertions, or flogged on account of insolent disobedience, till they lay senseless on the ground.

  16. If a slave was convicted of crime, his master paid the fine, and then flogged him until he had got his money's worth out of him.

  17. That girl standing yonder by the gun was once stripped and flogged by Russians calling themselves men and soldiers.

  18. At ten o'clock a small company of Cossacks spurred and flogged their jaded horses up the northern slope of Muswell Hill, on which the Tsar had fixed his headquarters.

  19. Remember, too," he continued in a sterner tone, "that fortress belongs to the power that flogged Radna and has captured Natasha.

  20. It was like the back of a man who had been flayed alive, and then flogged with a cat-o'-nine-tails.

  21. It was he who stood with the governor of Brovno in the prison-yard and watched Radna Michaelis flogged by the soldiers.

  22. She was the original of the central figure of the painting which depicted the woman being flogged by the Russian soldiers.

  23. There was a picture of a woman naked to the waist, and tied up to a triangle in a prison yard, being flogged by a soldier with willow wands, while a group of officers stood by, apparently greatly interested in the performance.

  24. As fast as one was flogged out of the mire in which he had stuck, another would fall in.

  25. Irritated but determined, this resolute man halted, sent back for the fugitives, caught them, and when brought back, flogged them severely and chained them.

  26. He asked the captain what he was to be flogged for.

  27. On the third day Giant Despair came and flogged them with a great crabtree cudgel, and so disabled them that they were not even able to rise up from the mire of their dungeon floor.

  28. And so it was that Maclean of Lochbuy was flogged there before his own people, and his enemy above looking on.

  29. This was what the man said--that unless Maclean had his back bared there and then before all the people, and flogged as he had been flogged, then the child should be dashed into the sea below.

  30. Do you know the story of the man who was flogged by Maclean of Lochbuy--that is in Mull," said he, not heeding her remark.

  31. He gave orders that the man's back should be bared, and that he should be flogged before all the people.

  32. Then they went after the deer again; but at one moment the man that had been flogged seized Maclean's child from the nurse, and ran with it across the mountain-side, till he reached a place overhanging the sea.

  33. If a man is flogged we all flogged him; if a man is hanged, we all hanged him.

  34. I was caught in the act of firing the stables and was flogged with hazel rods until I confessed that I was a spy from the enemy's camp.

  35. They could not be quieted, whether the guards patted or flogged them, and their loud, angry baying was heard in the ditch before the north gate, where the whole Batavian cohort was on duty.

  36. The Tribune would have us flogged if we even let you pass through the gate of the camp.

  37. I guess, young fellow, if we'd had you with General Greene in Carolina we'd have combed you out and flogged the drunken ragamuffins you're supposed to be commanding.

  38. He would probably have flogged you first and hanged you afterwards if you had.

  39. Men were arrested, imprisoned, flogged in the streets of Belfast.

  40. Kelso was flogged yesterday," said Donald, "and is in prison now.

  41. The poor farmer was then dragged to the bridge, where he was laid down and flogged till it was thought that sufficient revenge had been taken.

  42. Mirgán Yúsuf; flogged for insolence to his officer, January 19.

  43. Their utmost endeavors failed to discover who were the perpetrators of these murders; and even when everyone in the same hut was flogged to obtain information, not one opened his lips.

  44. One can but die once, while one can get flogged once a week.

  45. Now and then they were encouraged by being told that if they had gone to the Front the Serbian officers would have flogged them.

  46. When he had the famous old warrior Pero publicly flogged by a criminal for having refused to degrade himself by flogging that same criminal, Nikita might plead that he was acting in the interests of discipline.

  47. He had been flogged twice for leaving his work to bury the dead.

  48. Now, they couldn't be flogged unless the magistrate said so.

  49. But these exertions were dignified in comparison with the acts of Sir Judkin Fitzgerald, High Sheriff of Tipperary, who, with his own hands, flogged the peasantry to extort confession.

  50. One we shot, another we hanged, and the third we flogged and made a guide of.

  51. He then flogged them until, they revealed whatever they knew.

  52. Why, wife, I'll be flogged if the girl does not look better already.

  53. I'll be flogged if the girl does not look five pounds better than she did yesterday morning, when I first saw her at Mrs. Williams's!

  54. George kicked as hard as he could kick with both his heels, and flogged with all his might, but the stubborn beast would not stir an inch.

  55. I now, however, began to grow very impatient of remaining at school, to be flogged for things that I did not like.

  56. The school was kept by a conscientious prig of the ancient system, who did his duty by the boys intrusted to his care; that is to say, we were flogged soundly when we did not get our lessons.

  57. As I came in sight of the school-house where I had so often been flogged in the cause of wisdom, you would hardly have recognized the truant boy who but a few years since had eloped so heedlessly from its walls.


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