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scourge
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synonyms: knout, pizzle, sjambok ???
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Definition:1. a whip or the action of whipping; to flog2. an annoyance; something that is plaguy
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"[...] Now, scourging a man is never a pretty business, but there’s ways to make it worse than it might be; strikin’ sideways to cut deep, or steppin’ in wi’ a hard blow ower the kidneys, for instance.”
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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TARTUFFE: [speaking to his valet, off the stage, as soon as he sees Dorine is there] Lawrence, put up my hair-cloth shirt and scourge, and pray that Heaven may shed its light upon you.
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Dron paused. He looked askance at Princess Mary and said: “There are no horses; I told Yakov Alpatych so.” “Why are there none?” asked the princess. “It’s all God’s scourge,” said Dron. “What horses we had have been taken for the army or have died— this is such a year!
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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I do repent; but heaven hath pleas'd it so, To punish me with this, and this with me, That I must be their scourge and minister.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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