The ordinary registers are the low, the middle, the high voice, or head voice, and sometimes the second high voice, which has been called the flagellant voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing] Reference

I don't mean to come off like a "flagellant" here, beating my breast for the shortcomings of my countrymen; you could just as easily say that "they" don't spend time with.    From Wordnik.com.  [English-writing Israeli-bloggers] Reference

Only a three-chain flagellant is assured more misery.    From Wordnik.com.  [2010 April « Exile on Ninth Street] Reference

Advice from a lifelong psychological self-flagellant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Posthuman Blues] Reference

"Vainglory is a sleeveless errand," murmured the spirit of the flagellant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

One is a religious self-flagellant who skipped town after trying to dig up his grandmother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference

Our favorite flagellant, by far, is the beautiful trapeze artist, Miss Cat, who knows how to drape herself over a cross.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-10-01] Reference

When in London he patronised a flagellant brothel run by Mrs Jenkins, who provided facilities for flogging girls of 13 or so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book binding for beginners] Reference

I've been cast and then cut from three different parts in the opera already, as a friar, flagellant, and soldier respectively.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Forza del Gustavo] Reference

He shouldn't chain-smoke the way he did; anticancer shots, cardiovascular treatments, lungflushes, and everything, it remained a flagellant habit.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]

But let's not waste time in the flagellant posture of a seasoned intellectual, and adopt the erect stance of the rhetorician: nine out of ten nutso claims made about Palin were actually true.    From Wordnik.com.  [Campaign Ad or Ad Campagin?] Reference

Institutionalised public contrition as practiced (rightly) in Germany, or assiduously avoided by Japan, is not required of us, and certainly not as a sort of flagellant, anti-imperialist penance.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

No flagellant scored his back more deeply nor with braver heart than she her smitten side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest Lovers] Reference

I almost believed the one about flagellant cows causing global-warming by releasing methane gas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Stories - Google News] Reference

In fact Rice (1762-1844), a self-flagellant, ordained the use of corporal punishment in his school.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Being older, Geoffrey Wheatcroft provided a more self-flagellant version of baby boomer failures last week.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Hall had ditched his wife and family to become a stand-in for the flagellant father Bacon desired and hated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Review of Books] Reference

She did not see in Clare's hopeless passion the joy of the flagellant, or the self-dramatization of a neurotic girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Breaking Point] Reference

The difference is connected with the fact that the active flagellant is usually a more virile and normal person than the exhibitionist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy] Reference

Car and simulacrum sounder clapperboard sodomist use the myrmeleon to onwards rook alder and polypropenonitrile mwera to cut osteal pay flagellant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

In one case the flagellant asserted that he wished to write a work on education, and had therefore to ascertain how many strokes a child could endure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sexual Life of the Child] Reference

And having accomplished an epigram at his own expense, he felt as if he had to some degree atoned for his fault, just as a flagellant looks upon his self-scourging as expiatory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philistines] Reference

In some localities of Mexico, Central, and South America, flagellant organizations, more or less public in their practices, existed until very recently, and still exist in a few isolated places.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

Flagellation was introduced into Latin America during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, though no actual records are found of any organized flagellant societies there until comparatively recent times.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

But it must be borne in mind that although the masses, carried away by flagellant impulses, assist in the creation of these laws, in the main, they are laws, self-created platitudes which give birth to new platitudes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nonsenseorship] Reference

He was a keen self-flagellant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference

On Love's rapt face, that frenzied flagellant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perpetual Light : a memorial] Reference

Klaagzang der flagellant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Metal Underground.com] Reference

Reptans flagellant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...] Reference

The words struck her like a flagellant’s whip.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Flight Up] Reference