Lexicographical Neighbors of Floggable
Literary usage of Floggable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"Sir W. HARCOURT was afraid it could not be dispensed with. But why should not
the Secretary of State schedule floggable ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1875)
"Not to do this, not to "shirk," as it was called, was floggable. The logical
character of this arrangement was exhibited every day in some such instance as ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1852)
"Not ' Young England,' not ' Young America,' but the whole young world of floggable
age, ought to have grateful loins for this picturesque description. ..."
4. Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1880)
"it might be well to specify floggable offences, on active service as well as on
board ship, and an assurance that a schedule with that view would be ..."
5. The Cromwellian settlement of Ireland by John Patrick Prendergast (1870)
"... made the inhabitants their serfs, taxable and floggable at their will, until
it became a disgrace to be called an Englishman.1 The English peasantry, ..."
6. Ireland and the Making of Britain by Benedict Fitzpatrick (1921)
"To be English was to be a churl and a villein, a natural-born clod and criminal,
taxable and floggable at will, so that "it was considered a disgrace to be ..."
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