"Scourger" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... infant hour she took In her hand the pictured book Where Christ beneath the scourger bow'd, Crying 'O poor man!' aloud, And in baby tender pain Kiss'd the page, and kiss'd again, While the happy father smiled On his sweet warm-hearted child; —So now to him, in Carisbrook lone, ...
— The Visions of England - Lyrics on leading men and events in English History • Francis T. Palgrave
... sense of her public duties, a due appreciation of the extent of Dick's wickedness, and a full knowledge of her own inefficiency as a scourger. She looked down and debated anxiously with herself, carefully avoiding Dick's eye, and Dick watched her all the time, but did not speak a word or make ...
— The Gold-Stealers - A Story of Waddy • Edward Dyson |
