Thomas Petit, for "suspicion of slander, idleness and stubbornness," was severely whipped.

But she was sadly mistaken, for he took him, weary, sick, and suffering, as he was, and whipped him cruelly, and then left him in an old shed.

If they caught you when you were out without a pass, they would whip you unmercifully, and if you were out too late they would whip you.

A young girl who insulted her mother was publicly punished and kept on bread-and-water; and a peasant-boy who called his mother a devil was publicly whipped.

"Now I will have thee soundly whipped if ever I catch thee in any town where the law can lay hold of thee!

In the spring of 1864 the regiment was ordered to Tennessee, and we got into Memphis just about the time that General Sturgis was so badly whipped by General Forrest.

She often told me, secretly, how cruelly she was whipped when they sent her to the work house.

During the time they were gone the overseer whipped a man so terribly with the "bull whip" that I had to go for the doctor, and when Dr. Heningford, the regular family physician, came, he said it was awfulsuch cruel treatment, and he complained about it.

He stated another instance of a girl of fourteen, who was dreadfully whipped for coming too late to her work.

She would order the servants of my young mistresses upon her errands, and if they pleaded their prior duty to obey the calls of another, would demand that they should be forthwith whipped for their insolence.

He had been repeatedly taken, and repeatedly whipped, with great severity, but to no purpose.

Such visitors are often, perhaps generally brought in contact with the better class of slaveholders, whose slaves are really better fed, clothed, lodged, and housed; more moderately worked; more seldom whipped, and with less severity, than the slaves generally.

The Mexican kept on the far side of the rack and whipped his knot together hastily; it was not till he sprang back from his work that she saw the snaky length of an eight foot blacksnake uncoil from his hand.

I remember very well that when I was a child, our next door neighbor whipped a young woman so brutally, that in order to escape his blows she rushed through the drawing-room window in the second story, and fell upon the street pavement below and broke her hip.

Her head sunk low, her body grew tense, her tail whipped softly back and forth, with as easy a motion as the swaying of a serpent.

They would sure got whipped if they didn't have a pass.

The man brought a great wooden image of himself, and his son whipped it furiously for a quarter of an hour.

Thus the state of this troop of human beings, women covered with wounds from the "havildars'" whips, children ghastly and meager, with bleeding feet, whom their mothers tried to carry in addition to their burdens, young men closely riveted to the fork, more torturing than the convict's chain, is the most lamentable that can be imagined.

When the two are well mixed, whip them gradually into the cream.

At the same time two other priests were horribly whipped in the prison.

Neither of them could guess at what speed they traveled this first wild half-hour; but he knew that the long milesso heart-breaking with their ridges and brush thickets to men and horseswere whipping past them each in a few, little breaths.

Anna was tossed into the wagon, the plunging guns, dragging their stricken horses, swept out across the field, the riot of teams, many with traces cut, whipped madly away, and still, thrown about furiously in the flying wagon, she gazed from her knees and mutely prayed, but saw no Hilary because while she looked for a rider his horse lay fallen.

" Among the natives of Massua, on the eighth of the month of Ashur, "boys are allowed," says Munzinger, "to mercilessly whip any girl they may meeta liberty of which they make use in anything but a sentimental way.

It was always pleasant there, and it seemed doubly so to-night from the contrast presented to the world without by the white-washed ceiling, the newly whipped carpet, the clean, white curtains, and the fire blazing on the hearth, where two huge red apples were roasting.

We saw one or two gentlemenevidently early visitors like ourselvesanxiously whipping the river for fish, but they caught nothing; in fact, they told us afterwards that it was done with hardly any hopes of catching, since the "professional"save the nameelement came out with rods and nets, so that if the rods didn't answer they could net the pools instead.