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Letter "F" » flogged
«When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift.»
Author: James Agee
(Critic, Writer)
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«He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.»
«It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«No use in flogging a dead horse»
«There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other»
«Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.»
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