It was shown that many of the murders and floggings at the rubber stations were committed by the Barbadian negroes at the order of the Peruvian chiefs of sections.
Continual floggings went on at that time among women and children.
The terrible floggingspractised upon the Indians are lengthily described by Consul Casement, and it is said that 90 per cent, of them, men and women, bear scars therefrom.
The floggings of Indians were carried out daily, and from time to time some Indians were killed.
This picture is true; detailed descriptions of floggings of this kind were again and again made to me by men who had been employed in the work.
When he makes his correrías and orders thefloggings he says that the Indians must either work or die, for he does not wish to return to his country poor.
An individual who had often taken part in these floggings and who charged himself with two murders of Indians has thus left on record the manner of flogging the Indians at stations where he served.
Elya says he will be avenged for the floggings he gets.
Men were commonly tortured by floggings of fearful severity, or by half-hanging.
The citizens of Dublin, where the rebels had been thoroughly cowed by floggings and hangings, were zealous in preparing to defend their city.
In the seventh tale, a boy nine years of age, the third son of two poor people, goes out to be a cowherd; his master treats him well, but his mistress gives him more floggings than bread.
The missionary had witnessed the floggings at this machine repeatedly, as it stood but a few steps from his house.
These floggings were never of any value as a restraint or warning in the army; the whipped and flayed soldiers were ruined in temper and character just as they were often ruined in health.
These floggings are usually administered in the forenoon in presence of a surgeon, and before evening a zinc plaster—perhaps two—is applied to the recipient’s back.
Floggings and birchings appear to have no effect on these hardened criminals, and though they shriek and bellow during the infliction, they invariably revert to the same offence, and qualify for a second edition.
And for the first degree, three several floggings of forty lashes each within twelve months, and then castration.
For the second degree two floggings of twenty lashes each, soundly administered within twelve months.
Further floggings are inflicted with the "cat" upon convicted prisoners for breaches of discipline in prison.
The "cat" was the regular instrument with which floggings were performed in the British army and navy.
Sir,' said Susan bravely, though her cheek grew pale when he spoke offloggings and brandings, 'I thank you.
A criminal code was drawn up, meting out executions, mutilations, and floggings with a barbaric zeal.
It was a life of freedom and terror, of prosody and rebellion, of interminable floggings and appalling practical jokes.
I found out, by my mother's assistance, those facts about the trials and floggings and imprisonments: I went into the country and secured the evidence.
Whipping was so common an occurrence on this plantation, that it would be too great a repetition to state the many and severe floggings I have seen inflicted on the slaves.
Floggings for all offences, including deficiencies in work, are frightfully common, and most terribly severe.
After one of his floggings he burnt his master's barn: this so enraged the man, that when he caught him he took a pair of pincers and pulled his toe nails out.
After repeated and severe floggings in quick succession, for the same cause, the slave, in despair of pleasing him, cut off his own hand.
The execution of these martyrs was preceded by terrible floggings and tortures, and when they were led to the execution-ground they had two arrows thrust into their flesh, like modern St. Sebastians.
The life of a Corean woman, though that of a slave kept in strict seclusion, with prospects of floggings and head-chopping, is not always devoid of adventures.
Once I had made up my mind to commit a crime, and saw the coast clear, the chance of all the floggingsin the world would not deter me.
But there's not one in a hundred could stand the floggings and punishments I have endured.
It took, at least, a half-dozen floggings to cure me of the belief that Joseph Brandon and his wife were my parents.
Moreover, I comprehended that the daily sight of floggings destroyed kindness in their hearts and deadened all sense of dignity, which is such a powerful lever in the world.
The alferez says that whoever catches him will be exempt from floggings for three months.
Three floggings at intervals for one offence is the maximum amount of castigation allowed.
The maximum punishment of three floggings might be given within a period of two months, and the culprit then in most cases discharged.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "floggings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
