Noun : Disease and famine are scourges of humanity. From Dictionary.com.
If the scourger won't do his duty, tie him up, and give him five – and – twenty for himself. From Wordnik.com. [For the term of his natural life] Reference
Filed under: Firoze Shakir Bollywoods Most Wanted , kurla juloos 2008, polio afflicted scourger, zanzir matam. From Wordnik.com. [Polio Afflicted Scourger « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1] Reference
"To Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin; to the Judgment Hall of Pilate; to the scourger and the cross if they have power.". From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
Lewis Philip, a scourger of young native Americans, 50. From Wordnik.com. [The Biglow Papers] Reference
The sentence of the court was carried out by a scourger, sometimes called flagellator, or flogger. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned] Reference
He was a political pamphleteer, a scourger of public scamps, and a pictorial muck-raker of genius. From Wordnik.com. [Promenades of an Impressionist] Reference
He did his best, but that was not good enough for the squatter, who took him to a magistrate, and had him flogged by the official scourger. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned] Reference
The office of scourger was usually held by a convict; it meant promotion in the Government service, and although there was some danger connected with it, there was always a sufficient number of candidates to fill vacancies. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned] Reference
There was not a week that he had not some of my unhappy fellow-servants before a magistrate, often for the most trivial faults -- a word, a look -- and had them flogged by sentence of the court, by the scourger of the district, till the blood streamed from their backs. From Wordnik.com. [Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII] Reference
However, you need no Lycurgus to tell you; you can surely see for yourself that, if one of these men were captured in war, no tortures would wring a Spartan secret out of him; he would take his scourging with a smile, and try whether the scourger would not be tired sooner than the scourged. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03] Reference
The Muse often gives what the gods do not guide; and though we may be willing that our faults should be scourged, we naturally like to be sure that we owe our sore backs to the blackness of our guilt, and not merely to the fact that we have the proper number of syllables to our names, or because we occasionally dine with an enemy of our scourger. From Wordnik.com. [Obiter Dicta Second Series] Reference
A scourger of young native Americans, commiserated (though not deserving it). From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference
And every stroke the scourger applied to the back of the culprit was accompanied by one upon his own shoulders from the commandant’s cane, with a loud shout from the latter, “Harder yet, sir!. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph Rashleigh] Reference
The young, as an amateur scourger of boys. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference
At length the treacherous scourger of my house. From Wordnik.com. [Athaliah A Tragedy, Intended For Reading Only, Translated Into English Blank Verse, From Racine (A. Gombert's Edition, 1825)] Reference
No music appeared to delight his ears more exquisitely than the agonised yells of a wretched being who felt the lash for the first time; and on such occasions the fiendish joy that sparkled in his eyes would appear to dilate his form to nearly double its original size, and his every word and gesture, which, of course, he took no pains to conceal, fully proved that such scenes and sounds were supereminently gratifying to his soul; and accordingly, he took the greatest pains to prolong the enviable enjoyment as long as possible, frequently roaring out to the scourger in tones of thunder, “not to hurry”, “to take time”, “strike harder”, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph Rashleigh] Reference
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