Exchange for money

Usage examples of flog.

Britain was not keen to legislate against addictive drugs was that it was making vast amounts of money by flogging opium to the Chinese.

Then take him to Normandy and imprison him in Argentan, and flog him in the public squares of all the towns through which you pass.

The colonel begged me to accompany him to the guard-room, to see the thieving soldier flogged.

Even Reas the bonder himself, who had many a time flogged him for his disobedience and idleness, and who now watched him riding downward to the ships, did not recognize his former bondslave in the handsome and gaily attired young warrior.

Kaufmannssohn und dann ging er in den Wald hinaus, setzte sich in seinen Koffer, flog auf das Dach des Schlosses und kroch durch das Fenster zur Prinzessin hinein.

But he knew as a connoisseur that she would give him greater pleasure by submitting to fustigation, for therein lay supreme shame at having to uncover her secret parts to a man to be flogged for a sin which only females are guilty of and which no man should know about.

Malambruno is satisfied in every way, the faces of the duennas are once more smooth and clean, King Clavijo and Queen Antonomasia have been restored to their former state, and as soon as the squirely flogging shall have been completed, the white dove shall be set free of the annoying gerfalcons that persecute it and shall return to the arms of its beloved mate.

Fifty feet away a tall untethered man had whirled out with his chain to flog the gridlocked traffic.

I seized him round the waist and carried him round the parlour, running all the time, while he kept on flogging me.

I took the money laughingly, and the colonel then ordered the captain to fetch the offending soldier, and to give him a flogging before me.

He was even a little awed by her silent force of will, and at last he had to ask her humbly for a savoury dish which her mother had taught her to make--a dish he always ate upon the birthday of Mahomet Ali, who had done him the honour to flog him with his own kourbash for filching the rations of his Arab charger.

He paid a special visit to his colony at Novum Comum, where Marcus Marcellus had ordered a citizen flogged two years before, and personally paid the man compensation at a public meeting in the town marketplace.

Marcus Marcellus had flogged a citizen of your colony at Novum Comuma disgrace, Caesar.

And when he went dry, the encouragement he received from his agent, together with gloomy financial prognostications from Plimsoll, made him keep working, flogging out the words, despite his grumpy complaints that nothing flowed naturally and easily, as it had done in the old days.

Horse and man seemed like one, but when Reland had ridden the stallion his commands had usually been accompanied by a heavy-handed sawing on the reins and a pronounced flogging of the heels.