He whispered, "This time the whips will fillet the flesh off you, until the men will be flogging your neck and the soles of your feet.

I have seen men flogged until they prayed for death as a boon.

Gaise Macon ordered the two men flogged, a punishment carried out in the market square, and administered by the veteran sergeant Lanfer Gosten.

And all the good men Marcelle had flogged half to death out of her lust for the suffering of others.

He had seen many men flogged or summarily executed for any dereliction of their duty, or defiance of this little man's decrees.

A large man, the executioner, flogged the woman upon her back fifty blows.

One famous practice was the annual ceremony where young men flogged each other at the temple of Artemis Orthia.

Macro let them have a good night out, but when the Assembly-call was blown at dawn the next day, the men who were not back within two hours he flogged nearly to death.

"Not the day it happened, sir, but before he had those dozen men flogged he did some speechifying, an' he said they hadn't learned the lesson."

Any other man, including her own brother, would have flogged her back to ribbons for what she'd done.