Then sing of stage-coaches, And fear no reproaches For riding in one; But daily be jogging, Whilst, whistling and flogging, Whilst, whistling and flogging, The coachman drives on. FARQUHAR.英文原著 · 《Chronicles of the Canongate》
Most new arrivals say so," returned Sylvia quietly. "But for a wife to imprison her husband, my dear young lady!"
"She can have him flogged if she likes. Danny has been flogged. But then his wife is a bad woman. He was very silly to marry her; but you can't reason with an old man in love, Mr. Meekin."
Mr. Meekin's Christian brow had grown crimson, and his decorous blood tingled to his finger-tips. To hear a young lady talk in such an open way was terrible.英文原著 · 《For the Term of His Natural Life》
"I thought so," said Burgess. "Tie him up again."
"No. Not if you are Christians!" cried North. He met with an ally where he least expected one. Rufus Dawes flung down the dripping cat. "I'll flog no more," said he. "What?" roared Burgess, furious at this gross insolence. "I'll flog no more.英文原著 · 《For the Term of His Natural Life》
Dave, bare-footed and bare-headed, in snow-white moles and red shirt, entered standing majestically upon old Ned's back. He got a great reception. But Ned was tired and refused to canter. He jogged lazily round the ring. Dave shouted at him and rocked about. He was very unsteady. Paddy Maloney flogged Ned with the leg-rope. But Ned had been flogged often before.英文原著 · 《On Our Selection》
These reflections soon gave me the resolution which I had wanted at first. I was ashamed to ask the nuns for an instrument of flagellation; so I made one for myself of stout cord, pitilessly knotted at very short intervals. This done, I shut myself up while the nuns were at prayer, uncovered my shoulders, and rained such a shower of lashes on them, in the first fervour of my newly-awakened zeal, that I fairly flogged myself down on the ground, flat on my nose, before I had repeated more of the Miserere than the first two or three lines.英文原著 · 《A Fair Penitent》
"Damn THEE!--damn THEE!"--she roared and screamed, flogging him. "I'll tear thy eyes out! I'll cut thy liver from thee! Damn thy soul to hell!"英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
Do you want me to tell you to flog yourself with a cat-o'-nine-tails, make you wear a hair shirt?美剧 · 《Shameless》
I won't say that all senior citizens Who can't master technology should be publicly flogged, But if we made an example of one or two, It might give the others incentive to try harder.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
Can you help a bloke out'that's down to his last floggen?美剧 · 《Ugly Betty》