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.

The bursting shells and scourging rifle fire, sweeping machine guns, banging grenades and bombs were all affairs with which the Signaling Company in the cellar had no connection.

Apollo did not use Marsyas more inhumanly than his scourging pen this mystical race; and his personalities made them sorely feel it.

They bound me to the scourging-stake, They laid their whips of thorn on me; I wept to see the green rods break, Though blood be beautiful to see.

We think it is not improbable that it is from the Jews that the Roman Catholics derived their scourging penance system.

A few crops will reduce a new acid field to so low a rate of product, that it scarcely will pay for its cultivation; but no great change is afterwards caused, by continuing scourging tillage and grazing, for fifty years longer.

Their blows fell on Kazan, who was uppermost, and as he felt the burning pain of the scourging whips there flooded through him all at once the fierce memory of the days of oldthe days of the Club and the Lash.

On each side of this path rose and broke the angry little seas lashed up by the scourging wind.