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1. trying to flog a dead horse)
2. “She is probably trying to flog us something, tell her to fuck off
3. You can’t just flog a doctor, they have very high social status
4. Would my masters flog me if I did not show respect? Obedience is food
5. would not flog them too hard or too long for this show of ingratitude
6. messages; the first was spam trying to flog him credit chits
7. Try and flog the head waiter some dodgy fags
8. Honestly, I’m not kidding, I bet I could flog these
9. Talk about amazing luck, it was the guy that had called out that smart ass comment a year and a half earlier and one of the dudes that helped flog me!!
10. I'd be lucky if I can flog this off…I'm giving you this amount strictly because you're my friends
11. If I try and flee, David and his followers will surely catch and flog me
12. “To the pits with ye, flog that petrel!”
13. � Maybe he will get his rocks off by watching me naked while they flog and brand me
14. Devastated and seeing no way out, O’Mally then fetched the long, thick leather belt he had used so often to flog the children that resisted or didn’t obey him, plus a chair that he set under the big rough iron chandelier of his office
15. I answered him, “He wants to flog me
16. In Acts 22:22-29 Paul is about to be flogged and he says to the centurion in verse 25 Is it legal for you to flog a Roman citizen who hasn’t even been found guilty?
17. I may have to flog a few
18. THEY FLOG THE TAR & CONCRETE
19. With this idea he went over to Sancho, having first taken Rocinante's reins and arranged them so as to be able to flog him with them, and began to untie the points (the common belief is he had but one in front) by which his breeches were held up; but the instant he approached him Sancho woke up in his full senses and cried out, "What is this? Who is touching me and untrussing me?"
20. Tom Bolles continued to flog the back of the fellow in front of him with his old fedora
21. He has been known to drive his wife and his daughter out of doors in the middle of the night, and flog them through the park until the whole village outside the gates was aroused by their screams
22. He has been known to drive his wife and daughter out of doors in the middle of the night and flog them through the park until the whole village outside the gates was aroused by their screams
23. "For a moment the exhausted mutineer made a tremulous motion of his cramped jaws, and then painfully twisting round his head, said in a sort of hiss, 'What I say is this—and mind it well—if you flog me, I murder you!'
24. She’ll gallop!’ and he picked up the whip, preparing himself with relish to flog the little mare
25. Manners are more humane, or laws have been passed, so that they don't dare to flog men now
26. “Well, what now? Are you going to flog me? That's all that's left for you,” he said, clenching his teeth and addressing the prosecutor
27. I said to myself, that perhaps they would not then flog me, at any rate it was worth trying, my comrades had told me that it would be of no good
28. "He said that if he were to be hanged it would be enough for you to be flogged, not simply as a complement but to hurt, as they flog the peasants
29. "By the way, I told Karmazinov this morning that you said he ought to be thrashed, and not simply as a form but to hurt, as they flog peasants
30. "They'll flog me," he pronounced, looking at me with a face of despair
31. "Who'll flog you? What for? Where?" I cried, feeling alarmed that he was going out of his mind
32. The serfs are free, and flog one another instead of being flogged by the land-owners
33. While if you stick to consciousness, even though the same result is attained, you can at least flog yourself at times, and that will, at any rate, liven you up
34. He asked a very simple question: “Why, and with what right, do some people lock up, torment, exile, flog, and kill others, while they are themselves just like those whom they torment, flog, and kill?” And in answer he got deliberations as to whether human beings had free will or not
35. “The moment you don’t behave, I’ll flog you to death! Don’t try to escape—I will see to that!”
36. His question was very simple: Why and by what right do some people confine, torture, exile, flog and kill other people no different than they are themselves? And in answer they argued the questions: Whether or not man is a free agent? Can a criminal be distinguished by the measurements of his cranium? To what extent is crime due to heredity? What is morality? What is insanity? What is degeneracy? What is temperament? How does climate, food, ignorance, emulation, hypnotism, passion affect crime? What is society? What are its duties? etc
37. ‘You may flog me,’ he said, ‘but I won’t do it
38. “I do not wish to torture, to flog, to corrupt, to kill any one! I only want the welfare of all
39. He sent for several wagon-loads of switches, and, collecting all the peasants in the corn-kiln, locked himself up with them, and so intimidated the peasants with his shouts, that they, obeying him, began at his command to flog one another
40. It is this advice of the fool that the men of the social order do not know how to follow, for they flog one another without cessation, and men teach this mutual flogging as the last word of human wisdom
41. Indeed, can we imagine a more striking example of how men flog themselves than the humbleness with which the men of our time carry out the very obligations which are imposed upon them and which lead them into servitude, especially the military service? Men obviously enslave themselves, suffer from this slavery, and believe that it must be so, that it is all right and does not interfere with the liberation of men, which is being prepared somewhere and somehow, in spite of the ever increasing and increasing slavery
42. But no: the men of the social life-conception find that it is not right to act in this manner, and that it is even harmful to act thus if we wish to obtain the end of the liberation of men from slavery, and that it is necessary for us, as in the case of the rural judge and the peasants, to continue to flog one another, consoling ourselves with the thought that the fact that we prattle in Chambers and assemblies, form labour-unions, parade the streets on the first of May, form plots, and secretly tease the government which flogs us,—that all this will have the effect of freeing us very soon, though we are enslaving ourselves more and more
43. But if there is no occasion to imprison, flog, and kill men, every time the rent for the land is collected by the landed proprietor, and the man in need of corn pays to the merchant who has cheated him a threefold price, and the factory hand is satisfied with a wage which represents proportionately half the master's income, and if a poor man gives up his last rouble for customs dues and taxes, this is due to the fact that so many men have been beaten and killed for their attempts to avoid doing what is demanded of them, that they keep this well in mind
44. He ordered several loads of rods to be brought, and having gathered all the peasants into the barn, he entered himself, shut himself in with them, and so terrified them by his shouts and threats that in compliance with his commands they began to flog each other
45. If it is not always necessary to imprison men, to flog them, or to put them to death when the landowner collects his rents, if the needy peasant pays a treble price to the merchant who deceives him, or the mechanic accepts wages absurdly small in comparison with the income of his master, or the poor man parts with his last rouble for duties and taxes, it is because he remembers that men have been flogged and put to death for trying to avoid compliance with what was demanded of them
46. How can they, even, who take no active part in it,—the spectators, whose indignation would be aroused by accounts of private violence, even though it be but the ill-usage of a horse,—how can they allow this shocking business to go on without rising in wrath to resist it, crying aloud, "No, we will not allow you to flog or to kill starving men because they refuse to surrender their last property villainously attempted to be wrested from them!" And not only are men found willing to do these deeds, but most of them, even the chief instigators, like the steward, the landowner, the judge, and those who take part in originating prosecution and punishment, the Governor, the Minister of State, the Czar, remain perfectly calm, and show no sign of remorse over such things
47. If anything should be done in a way not exactly to please him he will find fault and perhaps flog some of us to death—as was the case with poor Simeon, whom he killed not long ago
48. To begin with, he so terrified the peasants by his loud threats that, reduced to submission by him, they set to work to flog one another at his command
49. And so they flogged one another until a simpleton was found who would not allow himself to be flogged, and shouted to his companions not to flog one another
50. Well, this simpleton's advice would never be followed by men of the state conception of life, who continue to flog one another, and teach people that this very act of self-castigation is the last word of human wisdom
1. unworthy souls were metaphorically flogged
2. I shall have him flogged for his rudeness – what say you… 50
3. It seemed odd that she wasn’t flogged
4. him flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime deserves, but he must
5. harlot responsible for the infant’s disappearance, however, was flogged to death
6. What caused the attack on that girl? Whose fault is it that the she was flogged that day, and could barely crawl away because of it? Her own perhaps for being where she should not be? Or for shouting abuse at us, as she most certainly did at the top of her voice? No, it was not her fault
7. I’d have you flogged but I’d be wasting the procrastinators’ time on some thickset pachyderm hides
8. settled down quietly on his paternal estate, and in all probability history would never have known his name if the intolerable persecution of a neighboring Polish squire, who stole his hayricks and flogged his infant son to death, had not converted the thrifty and acquisitive Cossack husbandman into one of the most striking and sinister figures of modern times
9. So Pilate then took Jesus and flogged Him and handed over Jesus to be crucified
10. Exposure to clear thinking, to new ideas and to possible solutions should be our duty and privilege, not something to consider an annoyance! I would bet any money you are a curfew breaking Creationist! You dribbling ninny! Your license to breathe should be revoked without further hesitation! They should sterilize you with rusty garden implements before you have the chance to share your genes! Is there a pull string in your back that gets you to say such unconsecrated drivel? You should be flogged with dead horse cocks in front of a laundry! You should be gagged with cow patties and pissed on by yaks! What is this world coming to?”
11. � The man whose life she was reliving, a black slave named Thomas Green, had been cruelly flogged by the sadistic manager of the plantation he was working in, to die two weeks later from infected wounds, this in March of 1876
12. � She was flogged on most of her body, was branded dozens of times with red hot irons, had all her nails pulled out and also had all her fingers and toes crushed
13. However, what the men couldn’t know was that she was much tougher than a normal human being and also more resistant to damage: while still painful, being flogged was a bearable experience for her, as she had found out during her little episode with the Gestapo in 1943
14. How shameful it is that a man should brag about activity that he should be publicly flogged for
15. She had by now passed out a total of three times and had been extensively flogged all over her body, including her groin area, on top of being branded twice with red hot pokers
16. ‘’She was flogged and also branded repeatedly with red hot irons, monsieur! Her torso and buttocks are covered with scars
17. She told me herself that she was flogged and branded by the pirates who captured her, for having resisted them
18. If the Governor gets word of the way you speak, he could have you flogged for disrespect towards the nobility
19. had been repeatedly flogged for alleged involvement in a plot to kill
20. Tied up, chained, whipped, flogged, and beaten with
21. As a lesson, Hans Zimmerman flogged him in front of the other workers
22. Navy had abolished flogging as a form of punishment for troublesome seamen, but he thought that the crew of the Artic should not be flogged but instead hung for murder
23. Wanting nothing but a soft, warm bed in a quiet house, he flogged the car home in a little over thirty minutes
24. “He shall be flogged!”
25. In Acts 22:22-29 Paul is about to be flogged and he says to the centurion in verse 25 Is it legal for you to flog a Roman citizen who hasn’t even been found guilty?
26. But when the duchess heard how the Rodriguez had made public the Aranjuez of her issues she could not restrain herself, nor Altisidora either; and so, filled with rage and thirsting for vengeance, they burst into the room and tormented Don Quixote and flogged the duenna in the manner already described; for indignities offered to their charms and self-esteem mightily provoke the anger of women and make them eager for revenge
27. "He was in a bad temper, and now you've spoilt your visit; and he'll be flogged: I hate him to be flogged! I can't eat my dinner
28. One of my father’s friends told him he had seen three men publicly flogged after the shura had found them guilty of involvement in the abduction of two women
29. “It matches her eyes, does it? If I said something like that, she ’d have me flogged
30. And where was Wulfric? She doubted whether he would have cared to watch the spectacle of a witch being flogged through the town
31. It’s the difference between being tickled by loose thread and being flogged with a tightly woven rope
32. Today, as then, there was a big crowd of townspeople and visitors in the cathedral, hoping for drama: accusations, counter-accusations, quarrels, hysterics, curses, and the spectacle of a woman being flogged through the streets and then hanged at Gallows Cross
33. She tried to put out of her mind the vision of Crazy Nell being flogged behind a cart
34. Even some who had flogged themselves yesterday said nothing today, looking a bit shamefaced about it all
35. And what have they done, old woman, tied you to a tree and flogged you with a broom handle? Samantha wanted to ask
36. It seemed to Becky, in her hot resentment, that she could hardly wait for school to "take in," she was so impatient to see Tom flogged for the injured spelling-book
37. ‘There now, you wish to liberate your serfs,’ he continued; ‘that is a very good thing, but not for you- I don’t suppose you ever had anyone flogged or sent to Siberia- and still less for your serfs
38. If they are beaten, flogged, or sent to Siberia, I don’t suppose they are any the worse off
39. A French cook accused of being a spy was being flogged
40. And Platon Karataev told a long story of how he had gone into someone’s copse to take wood, how he had been caught by the keeper, had been tried, flogged, and sent to serve as a soldier
41. He did not like talking about his life as a soldier, though he did not complain, and often mentioned that he had not been flogged once during the whole of his army service
42. Our peasants are swindlers, and don't deserve to be pitied, and it's a good thing they're still flogged sometimes
43. “Mitya told me that she screamed out that I ‘ought to be flogged
44. I was sometimes astonished that a man who had assassinated his Colonel for having been struck, would lie down without opposition beneath the rods, for he was always flogged when he was detected introducing spirits into the prison
45. I had never before been flogged
46. Twice again they flogged me
47. As he was not a noble, he had been sentenced to be flogged
48. During my first few days I looked at all that surrounded me with such greedy eyes that these strange manners, these men who had just been flogged or were about to be flogged, left upon me a terrible impression
49. I tried to represent to myself the psychological condition of the men flogged
50. They derive most of their income from presents which the prisoners condemned to be flogged slip into their hands before the execution
1. “I guess I’m flogging myself that I didn’t come with her and take care of her,” was all he wanted to admit
2. Some faced jeers and flogging, while still other were chained and put in prison
3. knowing that another flogging was as inevitable as the
4. A flogging, inflicted on a petty thief, inflicts more actual pain
5. No use flogging a dead camel, he thought as he made his way to the exit feeling somewhat dejected and sad
6. Apartheid schools had strict policies on hair, and any infraction would be reason for a flogging
7. There had been little flogging, and that only in flagrant cases; and in consequence of the respect generated by the white officers, there had been no desertion, and no disaffection among the thousands of men of various tribes employed as bearers, and in other capacities
8. I was forced into this fight by Carchano, later court-martialled by Blanco for flogging naked reconcentrados, and received a ball in the chest, which was extracted by a Spanish surgeon, who showed me much kindness
9. flogging is just cruel
10. It really should not be a crime or on the law books but it is and the sentences for it harsh in Muslim countries where flogging in public (100 lashes) and or stoning to death is the norm
11. tried to picture His flogging that day, the pain of the
12. 2 But Jesus could hardly answer such questions when asked by a man-fearing, weak, and vacillating judge who was so unjust as to subject him to flogging even when he had declared him innocent of all crime, and before he had been duly sentenced to die
13. I pointed out the guy to Tony and straight up him and our other mate marched this chicks ex in the loo for a flogging
14. The worst she risked was a good flogging for interfering in his affairs
15. You saturate the market! In this case don’t keep flogging a dead horse, ride that old
16. You are especially to be careful not to be disrespectful to him in front of guests or you will earn a flogging, a few days in a cell without food or both
17. Walking through the city arcades, I find it difficult to cope with the shopkeepers flogging their wares through loudspeakers
18. The only time he had tried to resist him had only brought him a cruel flogging, while he still ended being abused that night
19. Swearing loudly while wiping the spit away, he was about to resume his flogging of Jennifer when the gunman he had sent out came back with three young children, two girls and one boy, all around the age of ten
20. ’’ Said Petrova before resuming her flogging
21. That motivated Joshiro into waking up: the punishment for such an offense was at a minimum a good flogging and could go all the way to death
22. Next, she went to the small table were her clothes lay and put them back on slowly, her torso, buttocks and legs being very sensitive from the bruises caused by flogging
23. The pirates, enraged, punished me by flogging me
24. Why not make the courses for the horses instead of flogging the lagging but to no avail; it’s only in the sports that the differing capabilities are appreciated to devise ways and means for all to have their place under the sun; won’t the bantam and heavy weight classification in boxing, wrestling and weightlifting suggest that; the perils of pitting a lightweight champion even against a heavyweight trainee are not beyond anybody’s imagination
25. public flogging and reported that the victim was then forced
26. Scores have been tortured, some by flogging, while in detention
27. This is how we entered the dark spaces where whisper equals social flogging
28. The crack of the whip and the sound of a strong flogging resounded throughout the whole house, followed by a scream from his wife that made it seem as though she was truly being lashed
29. If you see something that looks like a cloud of tiny moths dancing around a streamside willow, grab your box of caddis imitations and start flogging the water with one, you’ve just solved a mystery
30. Sentences were usually whipping, flogging, or death
31. Navy had abolished flogging as a form of punishment for troublesome seamen, but he thought that the crew of the Artic should not be flogged but instead hung for murder
32. All of these thoughts flashed fast through my head as the guards strapped my wrists to the flogging pole
33. box of caddis imitations and start flogging the water with one,
34. “Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment
35. Nor were they without cause, for a lusty farmer was flogging him with a belt and following up every blow with scoldings and commands, repeating, "Your mouth shut and your eyes open!" while the youth made answer, "I won't do it again, master mine; by God's passion I won't do it again, and I'll take more care of the flock another time
36. "My oath on it, too," said the farmer; "but as I have a strong affection for you, I want to add to the debt in order to add to the payment;" and seizing him by the arm, he tied him up again, and gave him such a flogging that he left him for dead
37. The boor replied that he was flogging him because he was his servant and because of carelessness that proceeded rather from dishonesty than stupidity; on which this boy said, 'Senor, he flogs me only because I ask for my wages
38. It did not need the medium of a flogging to produce that effect on the master
39. Two or three months since, were you not in the habit of writing to Linton? making love in play, eh? You deserved, both of you, flogging for that! You especially, the elder; and less sensitive, as it turns out
40. ’ At one point during the flogging her burqa slips and they stop for a moment to adjust it then carry on beating her
41. Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani called for an inquiry and made a statement saying the flogging of the girl was against the teachings of Islam
42. Read the revelations that's going on in the papers about flogging on the training ships at Portsmouth
43. Raping the women and girls and flogging the
44. But they had startled everyone at Grünau their first day out when they suddenly demonstrated the one advantage of their smaller sweeps, raising their beat from twenty-seven to an absurd fifty-six in just fifteen seconds, suddenly flogging the water white and accelerating so rapidly that they looked, as Ulbrickson put it, “like ducks trying to rise off the water
45. Poor country people he usually left alone; the upper class were often stopped on the roads and robbed; but any unlucky official that fell into his hands was sure to get a severe flogging
46. Although Rohsail had adapted far better to the realities of the reformed Dohlaran Navy than Thirsk had once believed would have been possible, he remained rebellious where many of Thirsk’s reforms—primarily those relating to the discipline of enlisted personnel and the earl’s prohibition of capricious use of flogging and the cat—were concerned, and no one would ever mistake him for a Thirsk partisan
47. For Whitehead was known for unspeakable Cruelties—such as forcing Men to swallow live Cockroaches, stuffing Oakum in their Mouths and setting it aflame, flogging and keel-hauling ’em within an Inch of their Lives, and making very free with his Supplejack e’en for minor Infringements
48. “Lancelot! Lancelot! The Men are flogging Whitehead without a proper Trial or Vote!” Whereupon, perceiving what was happening, he grabb’d Lancelot by the Scruff of his Neck, calling him all Manner of Swine and Cur, and raving, “You’ll not have Fanny as I live and breathe, or I will have her, too!”
49. Having given off Flogging, the drunken Pyrates were now pelting him with broken Bottles, some empty, some half-full, some still uncorkt
50. He moped to school gloomy and sad, and took his flogging, along with Joe Harper, for playing hookey the day before, with the air of one whose heart was busy with heavier woes and wholly dead to trifles
1. The boor replied that he was flogging him because he was his servant and because of carelessness that proceeded rather from dishonesty than stupidity; on which this boy said, 'Senor, he flogs me only because I ask for my wages
2. Then he was telling us the master at arms comes along with a long cane and he draws out and he flogs the bloody backside off of the poor lad till he yells meila murder
3. But no: the men of the social life-conception find that it is not right to act in this manner, and that it is even harmful to act thus if we wish to obtain the end of the liberation of men from slavery, and that it is necessary for us, as in the case of the rural judge and the peasants, to continue to flog one another, consoling ourselves with the thought that the fact that we prattle in Chambers and assemblies, form labour-unions, parade the streets on the first of May, form plots, and secretly tease the government which flogs us,—that all this will have the effect of freeing us very soon, though we are enslaving ourselves more and more