Only a prior scourging could have prepared him for what came next.

It was time to begin the scourging, the scouring, the cleansing.

And Rubberneck, through it all, his scourging, felt a great sadness.

Then, they are taken to the scourging room.

It includes his scourging, crucifixion on the cross, and burial.

The scourging of Iraq : sanctions, law, and natural justice, 1996.

The two sides recoiled apart at the almost godlike scourging.

One can learn about "evidence that Christ received more than the customary number of blows during the scourging - by two soldiers at once."

The panels depicted scenes of Christ's agony, from the scourging to the crucifixion.

At best I'd be taken for a mountebank, and be lucky to escape with a scourging.

The artillery, situated as it was, could not save the infantry from the horrible scourging which they were enduring.

Blood of Christ, shed profusely in the Scourging, save us.

I well deserved the scourging I have got!

Promised, that is, after the scourging is done.

The minister talked about the scourge of drugs like the scourging of Christ's own passion.

This served only to intensify the scourging.

He sagged more and more heavily against his chains as the scourging continued, no longer able to see for the pain.

I wonder, was it the scourging or the minution to which you most objected?"

A scourging of the god.

After this affair of the scourging, he wielded his pen like a scourge until he died.

In a camp of Ar an infraction of that sort might have earned a fine, or a scourging.

The brutal scourging of a naked king or archbishop was exciting evidence of spiritual equality before God, and man.

A public scourging, in effect.

Man that is born of woman, to inflict upon woman personal scourging on the bare back, and through the streets at noonday!

After interrogation and a severe scourging, he was hurried off to prison, and subsequently beheaded.

History has never seen such a scourge before, or since.

You're not the first to come here, the Scourge said.

The clothes he put on were a scourge to his back.

I should like to make one or two points on the nature of the scourges we face.

The alternative tax would no longer be a scourge on the middle class.

Two doctors involved with the project said they had no personal knowledge of Scourge.

On average, 14 000 men, women and children die of this scourge every day.

This is bad and we have got to stop the scourge of drugs.

"People think it's the scourge of the earth to have it in your family."

The Scourge made no sign that it had even heard the words.

No one knew more about the various forms of the Scourge than they did.

We must finally put an end to the scourge of hunger.

Both our countries have had to face the scourge of terrorism.

God has already prepared a scourge with which to beat you.

We agreed that, scourge or not, it was still pretty.

This was a scourge, like death itself, on the hunt.

We're not supposed to have this scourge of drugs in our country.

The weather was like a scourge, the land could kill you.

Inflation is not the scourge it was only recently thought to be.

He was within ten yards of the Scourge, and now stood still.

Of course this did nothing at all to diminish the scourge.

It seems as though here we are living through a scourge from the Bible'.

The scourge of bed hair and why it damages the economy.

No one wants to be the scourge of Manhattan for a few weeks every spring.

Some Government officials are saying it is too difficult to fight all causes of the scourge.

His body was scourged and wounded in so many places.

I do not want to see the world scourged.

Emily knew all that, but even knowing it, the words scourged her.

Among other things, she was subjected to scourging with a lash.

He would also walk through the assembled people scourging himself to the point of drawing blood and beyond.

He looked like he'd been scourged, long fiery rips running down his back.

One individual, a Peter, was stripped, raised high, and scourged.

Inflation is scourging the country, a new experience for Chinese who are used to price jumps of less than one percent a year.

Though he has scourged you, I see the friendship you share.

His devotion became very severe: seven times a day he scourged himself, drawing blood.

As you know, Portugal was scourged from north to south this summer by a plague of fire on a scale never before seen.

The saint was executed by scourging for the public profession of her faith.

The trees were all scourging themselves along the meadows, the last leaves flying like dust.

"And you have delivered up your Redeemer to be scourged.

"Then she spoke impertinently to me, and so I scourged her.

And the god roamed over the hills scourged with a greater fire."

China was still scourged by corruption, poverty, and infrequent civil war.

For refusing to follow orders they are either put in jails or scourged from the country.

The whip that scourged Jesus' back, with the holy blood still dried on it.

In another age Preston would have been out there with the self-flagellants, scourging away for all he was worth.

The agony of indecision scourged him as he shaved and dressed.

That evil which daily must be scourged from our weak shells."

Nor are the mental aftereffects, which so scourged me at the outset, a problem any more.

"Then Death scourged her, and there were storms and ashes."

He was then whipped until the skin was virtually scourged from his back.