But I yielded not; I knelt down and wrestled with the tempter, while the scourge bit more fiercely into the flesh.

My intention is to store my house with provisions, as a ship is victualled for a long voyage, and then to shut it up entirely till the scourge ceases.

Here, behind tatties and under punkas, and with iced drinks, we were able to keep pretty cool; but, sad to say, soon after our arrival in the station that terrible scourge cholera broke out in our ranks, and in a few hours six men succumbed to this frightful malady.

The scourge hath not prevailed against thee, and from the dungeon hast thou come forth triumphant; but strengthen, strengthen now thy heart, Catharine, for Heaven will prove thee yet this once, ere thou go to thy reward.

The fourth boatswain's mate, with a fresh cat-o-nine-tails swung it about his head and brought the terrible scourge hissing and crackling on the young and tender back.

It is difficult to realize, in these days, what a terrible scourge piracy was to the Indian trade, two hundred years ago.

Every night I dream I am a town top, and that I am whipped up and down with the scourge-stick of love and the metal of affection; and when I wake, I find myself stark naked, and as cold as a stone.

That so she might the greater scourge sustaine In putting Phoebus to so great a paine.

He was nailéd to the tree, With scourges y-swongen.