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Definition of Scourgers
1. scourger [n] - See also: scourger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scourgers
Literary usage of Scourgers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1852)
"For many, many summers, and many dreary winters, I roared out against the blows
of the scourgers sent by Dick Mulcahy-na- ..."
2. A Text-book of Church History by Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler (1858)
"... by scourging and processions of scourgers;1 just as though the ordinary
ecclesiastical means of expiation were insufficient for extraordinary cases. ..."
3. A Compendium of Ecclesiastical History by Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler, Samuel Davidson, John Winstanley Hull (1853)
"... everywhere," ever 1 On the pilgrimages of Flagellants in Italy in the years
1334 and 1350 see Förstemann s. 54. On these scourgers, Cross-brethren, ..."
4. Pausanias' Description of Greece by Pausanias (1886)
"... but if the scourgers spare any young man at all in his flogging either on ...
makes complaint of the scourgers and says it is so heavy owing to them. ..."
5. My Italian Year: Observations and Reflections in Italy During the Last Year by Joseph Collins (1919)
"The scourgers have faces of semi- imbeciles, which the artist not unlikely copied
... and who seems to be directing and urging the scourgers, has a Semitic ..."
6. The Parthenon Frieze, and Other Essays by Thomas Davidson (1882)
"This image, being small, is, under ordinary circumstances, light; but if at any
time the scourgers deal too lightly with any youth, on account of his beauty ..."
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