"Flog" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... struck Jacob, at any cost. That is the way they would have taken their revenge. That is the way, indeed, that Mike's school-fellows advised him to take his revenge. Half a dozen of them, at least, surrounded him, and urged him to flog Jacob. ...
— Mike Marble - His Crotchets and Oddities. • Uncle Frank
... to be active and bustling was an impossibility. Instinct seemed to whisper that he was passing through still another phase, that presently he would be all right again—just as vigorous and energetic as in the past; and that meanwhile he should not flog and spur himself, but just rest patiently until all ...
— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell
... armed resistance. They did not send petitions to Congress, or write letters to the Northern newspapers, or hold indignation meetings. They simply formed a huge secret society on the model of the "Molly Maguires" or "Moonlighters," whose special function was to intimidate, flog, mutilate, or murder political opponents in the night time. This society was called the "Ku-Klux Klan." Let me give some account of its operation, and I shall make it as brief as possible. It had become so powerful in 1871 that President Grant in that year, in his message to Congress, declared ...
— Handbook of Home Rule (1887) • W. E. Gladstone et al.
... does not flog for many things, but there are certain offences he never fails to visit with the utmost severity. Smoking ...
— Dr. Jolliffe's Boys • Lewis Hough
... blood arouses the tiger; the blood of her victim aroused Dona Consolacion. "Dance, damn you, dance! Evil to the mother who bore you!" she cried. "Dance, or I'll flog you to death!" She then caught Sisa with one hand and, whipping her with the other, began ...
— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal
|
