flogged

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Flogged by the boyhood club he didn't want to leave for a fee that invited ridicule and proved to be not so much a monkey on his back as a silverback gorilla on his face.

From The Guardian • Jul. 16, 2012

Author of "Flogged for a Furlong", "Won by a Winker", etc., etc.

From Three Elephant Power and Other Stories by Paterson, A. B. (Andrew Barton)

"Flogged once a week for years, that tree was."

From Berry And Co. by Yates, Dornford

Nay, failed I now, what were my years of toil More than the endurance of a harnessed brute, Flogged to his daily work, that cannot view 710 The high design to which his labour steps?

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert