"Think of a cat-o'-nine-tails with a big thick handle.". From Wordnik.com. [Neutron Star]
"Shall I fetch the cat-o'-nine-tails, sir, so you can flog me?". From Wordnik.com. [Thief Of Hearts]
"And the cat-o'-nine-tails, too, eh?" chuckled the Western girl. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund] Reference
They looked like black cat-o'-nine-tails with grossly swollen handles. From Wordnik.com. [Neutron Star]
The trunk was built like a cat-o'-nine-tails; it held a bayoneted rifle. From Wordnik.com. [I Don’t Understand ?] Reference
Oh, for the cat-o'-nine-tails, the keelhauling, the marooning on a desert island!. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of a Deathtime]
This is one of the few penal institutions in our country where the cat-o'-nine-tails is used. From Wordnik.com. [The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries] Reference
Boil down a press-gang and six or seven smugglers, and (if in season) a bo'swain and large cat-o'-nine-tails. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841] Reference
"In fact, nobody does; there are no straight cats in Xanth, only pun-nish variants like the cat-o'-nine-tails.". From Wordnik.com. [Isle of View]
If Apple represents the shiny, happy future of the tech industry, it also looks a lot like our cat-o'-nine-tails past. From Wordnik.com. [How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong] Reference
It was the diameter of New York with about the same population, in beings like black cat-o'-nine-tails with thickened handles. From Wordnik.com. [A Gift From Earth]
And one sometimes saw the drummers give a man two or three hundred stripes with the cat-o'-nine-tails, at the head of his regiment. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
In short, we were fitted out in complete man-of-war fashion; not forgetting the cat-o'-nine-tails, which was used with great liberality. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference
Why should he risk bruising his precious knuckles when he had a weapon as caustic as the contempt he brandished like a cat-o'-nine-tails?. From Wordnik.com. [Thief Of Hearts]
If ye did I'll skin ye with the lash of my cat-o'-nine-tails. From Wordnik.com. [Three Wonder Plays] Reference
Upon a nail hung a small cat-o'-nine-tails of knotted whipcord. From Wordnik.com. [Two Summers in Guyenne] Reference
A tassel like a vicious cat-o'-nine-tails dangled from her nape. From Wordnik.com. [StyleList] Reference
Yer didn't see that I got th 'cat-o'-nine-tails on my back, did yer?. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure] Reference
What authority there was was maintained at the end of the cat-o'-nine-tails. From Wordnik.com. [Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798] Reference
It's the cat-o'-nine-tails you want, and the bosen to lay on; and I'd do it myself. From Wordnik.com. [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference
"No, Syd, you'll be a captain, and the physic for your patients will be cat-o'-nine-tails.". From Wordnik.com. [Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea] Reference
He had a heavy cat-o'-nine-tails on his shoulder, which hung down to the middle of his back. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
People don't find it worth their while to kidnap a girl and flog her with a cat-o'-nine-tails. From Wordnik.com. [The Blue Pavilions] Reference
Having no cat-o'-nine-tails in their possession, the lashes were inflicted with hickory withes. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Salt Lake Trail] Reference
"Yes, you're stern enough," said Nic indignantly, "threatening to give a man the cat-o'-nine-tails for making faces.". From Wordnik.com. [First in the Field A Story of New South Wales] Reference
At the same time, she stretched out her arm towards the cat-o'-nine-tails which hung on a nail in the chimney-corner. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
Briton, urged within its range by the double incentive of sixpence per day in his pocket and the cat-o'-nine-tails on his back!. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
Amidships stood a man with a cat-o'-nine-tails, ready to slash any one of the wretched slave paddlers who was not working hard. From Wordnik.com. [Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas] Reference
For this he received six lashes with the cat-o'-nine-tails from every member of the crew, "which disordered him for some weeks.". From Wordnik.com. [The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers] Reference
They will never get up on the mountains, maybe, where the laurels grow, or into the shady swamps among the flags and the cat-o'-nine-tails. From Wordnik.com. [Real Folks] Reference
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