"Scourger" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sense of her public duties, a due appreciation of the extent of Dick's wickedness, and a full knowledge of her own inefficiency as a scourger. She looked down and debated anxiously with herself, carefully avoiding Dick's eye, and Dick watched her all the time, but did not speak a word or make ...
— The Gold-Stealers - A Story of Waddy • Edward Dyson
... infant hour she took In her hand the pictured book Where Christ beneath the scourger bow'd, Crying 'O poor man!' aloud, And in baby tender pain Kiss'd the page, and kiss'd again, While the happy father smiled On his sweet warm-hearted child; —So now to him, in Carisbrook lone, ...
— The Visions of England - Lyrics on leading men and events in English History • Francis T. Palgrave
... Philip, a scourger of young native Americans, 50 —commiserated (though not deserving it,) ...
— The Biglow Papers • James Russell Lowell
... degree and be entirely superior to fear. However, you need no Lycurgus to tell you; you can surely see for yourself that, if one of these men were captured in war, no tortures would wring a Spartan secret out of him; he would take his scourging with a smile, and try whether the scourger would not be ...
— Works, V3 • Lucian of Samosata
... deeds to come:—but he whose nod Has tumbled feebler despots from their sway, A moment pauseth ere he lifts the rod; A little moment deigneth to delay: Soon will his legions sweep through these their way; The West must own the Scourger of the world.[cp] Ah! Spain! how sad will be thy reckoning-day, When soars Gaul's Vulture, with his wings unfurled,[cq] And thou shall view thy sons in crowds to ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron |
