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Example sentences for "scourge"

Lexicographically close words:
scoundrels; scour; scoured; scourer; scourers; scourged; scourges; scourgeth; scourging; scourgings
  1. For they will deliver you up in councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues.

  2. Nor does it follow that because it was acted at the Curtain, where Marston mentions it in his Scourge of Villany (S.

  3. The "Curtain-plaudities" of Marston's Scourge of Villany, entered S.

  4. The scourge struck the poorer classes by preference, but it did not spare the rich.

  5. He exhibits a faithful picture of Italian society, and applies the scourge of satire to its most prevalent faults and follies.

  6. Into this dismal receptacle the unhappy sufferer will be dragged by seventy thousand halters, each pulled by seventy thousand angels, and exposed to the scourge of demons, whose pastime is cruelty and pain.

  7. All the Spanish writers who speak of it call it the peste, and suppose it to be the same scourge that destroyed nearly the whole population of the Toltec empire in the eleventh century.

  8. Should the scourge continue, it is supposed that the spirits are obstinate, and the people remove to other parts, burning the village.

  9. Her influence over her fiery people, it is said, was perfect; while her warriors, the terror and scourge of the surrounding country, quailed before her eye.

  10. All that was needed to render this social scourge complete was devised when the familiars were authorized to carry arms.

  11. The scourge of London, he betrayed and destroyed every man that ever dared to live upon terms of friendship with him.

  12. Rivals in talent, they were also near contemporaries, and the Scourge of Paris may well have been famous in the purlieus of Clare Market before Jack the Slip-String paid the last penalty of his crimes.

  13. So fell the scourge of Paris into the grip of justice.

  14. But I yielded not; I knelt down and wrestled with the tempter, while the scourge bit more fiercely into the flesh.

  15. And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?

  16. Gamaliel had a strange notion of what constituted 'refraining from these men and letting them alone,' and he betrayed his real position and opposition by his final counsel to scourge them, before letting them go.

  17. Aveyros may be called the headquarters of the fire-ant, which might be fittingly termed the scourge of this fine river.

  18. The Danes, who were full of the vigorous virtues of heathenism, liked nothing better than to scourge those effeminate vices of the cloisters.

  19. For many generations the great scourge of Europe was the smallpox.

  20. There is, amongst our wasps, even a more accomplished spider-scourge than the mason-wasp, and I will here give a brief account of its habits.

  21. Thus "He destroyeth the upright and the wicked, When his scourge slayeth at unawares.

  22. LXXIV He destroyeth the upright and the wicked, When his scourge slayeth at unawares.

  23. XXIX Thou shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue,[202] Neither shalt thou fear misfortune when it cometh; At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh, Nor shalt dread the beasts of the earth.

  24. Farther south, in Bruttii and Apulia, the hand of Rome had co-operated with the scourge of war to produce a like result.

  25. Perhaps Gracchus himself was the victim of this hope, and believed that the scourge of the nobility which he had placed in the hands of the knights, might at least be decorously wielded.

  26. I'll hazard My life upon it, that a boy of twelve Should scourge him hither like a parish-top, And make him dance before you.

  27. Every night I dream I am a town-top, and that I am whipt up and down with the scourge stick of love.

  28. We rested at the summit of the pass commanding the distant view of the Campidano, which led to these remarks on the insalubrity of the country and the scourge of the intempérie.

  29. The only other instance in the present day of crimes similar to those which have been the scourge of Corsica, is found in the case of unhappy Ireland.

  30. This scourge swept off with no less virulence the workmen employed on the line of telegraph, and as the season advanced, cartloads after cartloads were carried to the hospitals, so that the works were stopped.

  31. He started out as a scourge upon the commerce of the Atlantic Ocean with only an open boat and eight men.

  32. They resembled the citizens of a town attacked by the cholera or the plague, and in fact, they would have preferred a most terrible pestilence to this terrible scourge of piracy from which they were about to suffer.

  33. This minister, who may be truly described as the political scourge of Germany, is as fanatical in religion as he is coarse and sceptical in politics.

  34. Meanwhile, the ministers of the sect of Pikardites were driven from the parish of Holleschow, where the scourge of heresy, like the wild boar of the forests, had spread devastation during eight years.

  35. He that has only the scourge of the tongue, knows not what are the comforts that are prepared for him that meets with the scourge of the whip.

  36. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

  37. Again, suppose the father should scourge and chasten the son for such offence, is the relation between them therefore dissolved?

  38. The scourge of impostors, the terror of quacks".

  39. Calais had been for many years a nest of pirates, and vessels issuing from its port had been a scourge to the commerce of England and Flanders, and the king was fully determined to punish it severely.

  40. By this time the scourge had done its worst in the village, and three-fifths of the population had been swept away.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scourge" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affliction; baste; beat; belabor; belt; blight; blister; buffet; bugbear; burden; calamity; cane; castigate; cat; chastise; club; correction; cowhide; crop; cudgel; curse; cut; deserts; discipline; disease; drub; epidemic; evil; excoriate; flagellate; flagellum; flail; flay; flog; grievance; harm; hide; horsewhip; infliction; judgment; lace; larrup; lash; oppressor; overrun; pain; pandemic; pay; payment; penalty; penology; pest; pestilence; placid; plague; pommel; pummel; punish; rack; ravage; rawhide; retribution; scarify; scathe; scorch; score; scourge; slam; slap; slash; slate; smite; spank; strap; strike; stripe; switch; terror; thong; thorn; thrash; thump; torment; trounce; tuberculosis; ulcer; vexation; visit; visitation; wallop; whale; whip; whiplash; whop; woe