flogger

Example Sentences

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Explaining a flogger whip to my children would be easier than explaining how such a poor quality book made it into print having clearly never been anywhere near an editor.

From BBC • Aug. 31, 2012

Nuvolari, now 60 and retired, was "hard on his mounts, a great flogger of automobiles, a car killer."

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Haddon seconded the hard-hearted Sir William Petre, and adduced as an evidence that the best schoolmaster then in England was the hardest flogger.

From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various

If the accused flogger is shocked or indignant at the idea I should be inclined to think that the accusation was a just one.

From A Dominie in Doubt by Neill, Alexander Sutherland

Mr. Haddon seconded the hard-hearted Sir William Petre, and adduced, as an evidence, that the best schoolmaster then in England was the hardest flogger.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac