Of these one has a name which--risking due castigation if I betray gross ignorance by the supposition--I think he must certainly have himself bestowed on it, as it excels the most outrageous pranks of the alliterative age.
It was rather hard on Moore, if the real cause of his castigation was that he had offended democratic principles, while the ostensible cause was that, as Thomas Little, he had five years before written loose and humorous verses.
But the "punishment of the pump" is one of the most severe that can be inflicted; far more so than either the bastinado, or castigation by the lash.
Neither castigationby the cowskin, nor the punishment of the pump, was discontinued.
They all pitied me and tried to console me, and were sad in view of the castigation that awaited me, except Kentucky John.
The most singular effect of thiscastigation is recorded by Meibomius, in his work De flagrorum usu, &c.
It was more especially upon the backs of saints that thiscastigation took place.
No doubt, the terror which this castigation inspires may tend materially to facilitate the management of the insane.
But it is rather a surprise to find an allusion to "Golden Schneider" in view of Punch's earlier castigation of that ultra-vivacious lady.
Nothing could be better in its way, again, than the castigation of the "slick" and deliberate eccentricities of Jan Van Beers in 1886.
This well-merited castigationpreceded the protests of the "Indignant Ratepayers" by a couple of years, but it is more truly representative of Punch's convictions on the main question.
While this castigation was proceeding the Count returned, no longer in a rage, but meek and humble as a slave, and kneeled down before her to beg forgiveness.
She refused, and he thereupon suggested that the servant should do it; the wife failed to take this idea seriously; but he had it carried out, with great satisfaction at the severity of the castigation he received.
None of these children delighted in cruelty; the fascination in the theme of castigation seemed to be in imagining the spectacle of the exposed nates, though actual witnessing of the whipping made them angry at the time.
His kick and cudgel were never disputed; for, if they had been, it was well understood these modes of castigation would be instantly changed for a stab of his stiletto, or a shot from his pistol.
On one occasion I was flogged unjustly; conscious as I was of its cruel instead of judiciary character, this was the only castigation I received which had in it an element of gratification for my instincts.
Murray could not possibly disseminate Byron's private obscenities, and Byron's own intended public castigation of Keats in a second letter to Bowles was, as we have seen, withheld.
In competent hands, no form of allegory so lends itself to the castigation of the follies of an age, or to the embodiment of previsions and prognostications.
There is no savagecastigation of vices, nor cynical delineation of abortions, but a quiet, keen, playful exhibition of possible good and probable evil; of things to be desired and of things to be shunned.
He shows its horrid and dangerous nature, and administers a well-merited castigation to that arch-agitator and firebrand of mischief, Wendell Phillips, who has made himself its apologist.
We wish him well, and none the less in desiring space wherein to administer to the present volume the castigationwhich it deserves.
The old gentleman was sufficiently incensed against the two culprits to administer a severecastigation to each, while Elsie was thankful to learn that her son had not yielded readily to the temptation to disobedience.
Shadwell did not remain silent beneath the lash; but his clamorous exclamations only tended to make his castigationmore ludicrous.
Dryden seems to have thought, that such reiterated attacks, from a contemporary of some eminence, whom he had once called friend, merited a more severe castigation than could be administered in a general satire.
