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Definition of Floggers
1. flogger [n] - See also: flogger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Floggers
Literary usage of Floggers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Nemesis of Misgovernment by James William Buel (1899)
"Two professional floggers now enter the room in response to a summons, ...
The floggers begin their work generally by flourishing the knout several times ..."
2. Personal Memoirs and Correspondence of Colonel Charles Shaw: Comprising a by Charles Shaw (1837)
"What do floggers and anti-floggers say to this ? I suspect the anti-floggers will
often find that the men who have been flogged, and who cannot ..."
3. Poems and Translations by Edward Vaughan Kenealy, Homer (1864)
"Glory and praise to thee, Caliph of floggers, For having cured me before att ...
live Caliph of floggers, Fitted with contempt for all dunces and joggers, ..."
4. The Poetical Works of Edward Vaughan Kenealy by Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy, Homer (1879)
"Glory and praise, to thee, Caliph of floggers, For having cured me before all these
... So you have come from the Caliph of floggers, He who delights in his ..."
5. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1826)
"How plaintively the Reviewer now talks of flogging, and stout floggers, and
knowing floggers,as if he had never heard of similar goings-on among Englishmen ..."
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