I have often seen him flogging the slaves in the field, and have often heard their cries.

I was told that flogging his negroes was a favourite pastime with this eminently-distinguished general, and that he was by no means liked by his officers or men.

He seemed to take delight in flogging the apprentices.

But we soon came to feel that he was essentially doing something between flogging a dead horse, so far as we were concerned, and shooting a sitting rabbit.

"If busha say flog em, he flog em; if busha say send them to the treadmill, he send em."

"What are you going to flog that man for, sir?" said John the Swede to the captain.

My old master the Rev. James Bowyer, the 'Hercules furens' of the phlogistic sect, but else an incomparable teacher,used to translate, 'Nihil in intellectu quod non prius in sensu',first reciting the Latin words, and observing that they were the fundamental article of the Peripatetic school,"You must flog a boy, before you can make him understand;"or, "You must lay it in at the tail before you can get it into the head.

The following circumstance occurred in Charleston, in 1828: A slaveholder, after flogging a little girl about thirteen years old, set her on a table with her feet fastened in a pair of stocks.

"Col. Blocker's overseer attempted to flog a negrohe refused to be flogged; whereupon the overseer seized an axe, and cleft his skull.

They said I could not get along with them without flogging thembut

This Teuton in uniform has been found in strange places; shooting farmers before Saratoga and flogging soldiers in Surrey, hanging niggers in Africa and raping girls in Wicklow; but never, by some mysterious fatality, lending a hand to the freeing of a single city or the independence of one solitary flag.

After some time the sufferer attempted to get up; one of the slaves standing by, seized him by the feet and held him fast; upon which he yielded, and M'Coy continued to flog him ten or fifteen minutes.

Thomas N. Slave Auctioneer Gagging of slaves Galloway flogging Jo.

"That's right, Jack, keep them going," Dick said, as Jack flogged the animals to their highest speed.

If for flogging poor little children, unoffending school-boys, pedagogues are damned, he, upon my word of honor, is now on Ixion's wheel, flogging the dock-tailed cur that turns it.'

"I have indorsed your Bill, Sir," said a pedagogue to a merchant, meaning he had flogged his son William.

One day at school, the master, irritated beyond endurance, exhibits a new rod, bought expressly, so he says, "for flogging Facundo."

The Fairchild Familythat quaint picture of Evangelical life and mannersdepicts a religious father as punishing his quarrelsome children by taking them to see a murderer hanging in chains, and as chastising every peccadillo of infancy with a severity which makes one long to flog Mr. Fairchild.

He threatened to flog Figs violently, of course; but Cuff, who had come to himself by this time, and was washing his wounds, stood up and said, "It's my fault, sirnot Figs'snot Dobbin's.

Presently, however, I was set right upon this point, for the man, seizing a kind of whip, which is generally carried in Cairo, and flogging off his friends, dashed the poor creature on the ground, and inflicted several severe strokes upon her prostrate body, not one of the by-standers attempting to prevent him.

There is something respectable in the names of a Spanish fleet; and one feels that he is flogging gentlemen, at least, while he is at work on them.

come; I say *vanidad* f. vanity *vano* vain *vapuleo* m. flogging *vario* various; different; pl. several *vaso* m. glass, tumbler *vaya* (from *ir*) exclam.

I thought the fellow remembered the act for some years; but, in the end, I believe I flogged all the gratitude out of him.

And the Maid to stand very quiet, now that I did keep her from coming unto me; and her head did be something bent, so that I knew not whether I did mayhap have flogged her over-hard; for I did be something lacking in knowledge whether that a maid be very easy hurt.

Could it authorise me to plait a whip of small cords, and flog a preferment-hunter out of the pulpit?