Breathless, and blinded with thescourging waters, we staggered against a large rock.
The three years and a half which followed his scourging he had passed in one of the cells of Newgate, except when on certain days, the anniversaries of his perjuries, he had been brought forth and set on the pillory.
It was resolved that the scourging which he had undergone was cruel, and that his degradation was of no legal effect.
The tale is one of an evil time, When souls were fettered and thought was crime, And heresy's whisper above its breath Meant shameful scourging and bonds and death!
Where "chivalric" honor means really no more Than scourging of women, and robbing the poor!
Indeed, so strong was the pressure of the sentiment of abhorrence and disgust that South Carolina yielded to it, and the sentence was commuted to scourging and banishment.
Not he who, all her sacred trusts betraying, Is scourging back to slavery's hell of pain The swarthy Kossuths of our land again!
Thus through the world, like bolt and blast, And scourging fire, thy words have passed.
I knew "that jealous God" who claimed the supreme love of his creatures, was scourging me for making an idol and bowing down before it--for loving my husband.
There was no abstraction in tying Martha to a whipping-post and scourging her for mourning the loss of her children.
The government which they had set up like the golden image of Nebuchadnezzer, and demanded that all should bow before it, this same government was bound to sustain men in scourging women for chastity.
In particular, he obtained the concession, although with a great deal of difficulty, that the scourging should be inflicted only by proxy, and by the hand of Aldobrandini himself.
As a confirmation of this view it may be pointed out that beating or scourging is inflicted on inanimate objects expressly for the purpose indicated in the text.
M51) In like manner it is probable that beating or scourging as a religious or ceremonial rite was originally a mode of purification.
They had yelped under thescourging of Abraham Lincoln.
It used to be beautiful to witness the rivalry of these children of the deep, when the pitiless hurricane was scourging their beloved ship, and threatening her with destruction.
Scourging was frequently inflicted by the Romans before execution, but never before the prisoner was convicted and sentenced.
The "Bible Dictionary" concedes the illegal and unusual character of the scourging mentioned by John.
Then they took two lads, laid them down on a bench, and inflicted a most severe scourging on their bare backs.
In the ritual just described the scourging of the victim with squills, branches of the wild fig, and so forth, cannot have been intended to aggravate his sufferings, otherwise any stick would have been good enough to beat him with.
The purpose of the scourging was not to intensify the agony of the divine sufferer, but on the contrary to dispel any malignant influences by which at the supreme moment he might conceivably be beset.
Probably, beating or scourging as a religious or ceremonial rite always originated with a similar intention.
This interpretation of the custom is supported by the fact that beating or scourging is inflicted on inanimate objects expressly for the purpose indicated in the text.
John makes that choice of the robber the reason for the scourging of Jesus.
Then he went again to the window, which was gleaming yellow with a dull light between the thick grating, and once more began to watch them scourging Jesus.
Ever since the morning when they led forth Jesus from the guardroom, after scourging Him, Judas had followed Him, strangely enough feeling neither grief nor pain nor joy--only an unconquerable desire to see and hear everything.
He recovered quickly, but broke into passionate denunciation of the government, scourging the monarchy as impotent and unwilling to make Italy, and threatening to raise the republican flag again.
However this be, it is plain that the spectacle of naked men and women marching in procession and scourging one another can not but have been provocative of prostitution.
He punished by fine and scourging the omission of a brothel-keeper to inscribe every female in his house.
All day long he was busy with them, and during the night he was scourging himself or praying.
The Gaul who came before his time had his scourging at Sentinum; the Teuton who came before his time had his scourging at Aquæ Sextiæ and Vercellæ.
The Jews would not have Him, but Barabbas, released, nor would they accept scourging in lieu of crucifying.
Chastise' sounds almost beneficent, but it would not make the scourging less cruel, nor its infliction less lawless.
A number of men were killed at the altar; and accordingly the goddess called for victims to atone for the pollution; instead of which, in later times, the scourging of boys was instituted, over the severity of which the priestess presided.
This accordingly was done, the dignitaries looking on calmly whilst the scourging was administered by the underlings of the temple police.
It was John who had spoken them after the scourging before the council.
They arescourging two of the Nazarenes," he replied.
The little band of fourteen men had established themselves on a rocky eminence directly above the spot where the scourging was to take place, well screened from observation by a tangle of low-growing shrubs.
Saul contemptuously, "a loud-mouthed braggart; doubtless a Roman scourging will suffice to close his mouth for the future.
Occasionally, in bigamy cases, involving scourging and the galleys according to rule, the omission of these is justified by the age or weakness of the culprit.
In 1568 the Suprema rebuked the Barcelona tribunal for condemning to public scourging penitents reconciled for heresy.
Enslavement in the galleys, to labor at the oar, would appear to be even more incongruous than scourging as penance for spiritual offences.
The rule as to Moriscos is borne out by the Valencia auto de fe of 1607, in which there appeared sixteen who had overcome the torture, most of whom were visited with imprisonment, scourging or fines.
As the eighteenth century advanced there appears to be more readiness to remit the execution of sentences of scourging on account of age and infirmities and of "accidentes," which probably mean crippling by torture.
From this time scourging may be regarded as obsolescent and soon to become obsolete.
Simultaneously a famine wasscourging Behar, and Vennard, to do him justice, had made manful efforts to cope with it.
I saw the fierce prophets, scourging the votaries with rods, and a nation Penitent before the Lord; but always the backsliding again, and the hankering after forbidden joys.
