| 单词 | cat-o'-nine-tails |
| 例句 | In those days, prison was designed for punishment and was stocked with its own supply of whipping implements such as cat-o'-nine-tails and birch rods. Transforming Scotland's hate factory 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z Enveloping himself in a cloak, with a cat-o'-nine-tails in his hand, he awaits developments. The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z When the captain was once more sure of his command, "Jack, a Swede, was taken from his confinement, lashed up, and whipped with a cat-o'-nine-tails, then sent to duty." Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z Then out came the cat-o'-nine-tails again, and he fell to flogging him as fast as he could. Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales 2011-06-13T02:00:24.710Z He had tasted the cat-o'-nine-tails himself more than once. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z That is at football, by the way, not just the nation's game but its sackcloth and ashes, its cat-o'-nine-tails, its hemlock on the bedside table. Wales join the queue to give England's divine right a real kicking 2011-03-22T00:06:27Z Dey would whip with a cat-o'-nine-tails and den mop de sores with salt water to make it sting. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume X, Missouri Narratives 2011-02-25T03:01:01.877Z I saw myself bound to the terrible wooden bench, black with human blood; I saw the executioner approach with his awful cat-o'-nine-tails. Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z As for Tobit, the scowling look, replete with cat-o'-nine-tails, actually departed, temporarily at least. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z The first mate lashed the line forward with a cat-o'-nine-tails, positioning them along the scuppers. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z Orders were given to have me flogged with the "Thieves'" cat-o'-nine-tails at eight o'clock the next morning. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document My master whipped his slaves with a cat-o'-nine-tails. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume X, Missouri Narratives 2011-02-25T03:01:01.877Z The thick-set tufts of the cat-o'-nine-tails afford ideal sites for summer cottages, with building material close at hand. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road There were present the petty officer told off to wield the cat-o'-nine-tails, an officer to tally the strokes, Dr. Cuthbert, and my guard. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois Lieutenant Ropes arrived, bringing into the guard-house a formidable cat-o'-nine-tails. Cudjo's Cave "Four dozen" on an English man-of-war means flogging with the cat-o'-nine-tails. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document All this she has accomplished despite the fact she was once a chattel and was frequently "curried down" with a "cat-o'-nine-tails." Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume X, Missouri Narratives 2011-02-25T03:01:01.877Z It was like the back of a man who had been flayed alive, and then flogged with a cat-o'-nine-tails. The Angel of the Revolution A Tale of the Coming Terror We may congratulate ourselves on having escaped the cat-o'-nine-tails and the gallows. Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications The symbol of authority might well have been a kourbash, which corresponds to the English cat-o'-nine-tails. General Gordon A Christian Hero Low wages, flogging with the cat-o'-nine-tails, and no chance for promotion, were the chief reasons. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document One time when I had over worked my Master said, "You have not had a currying down for a long time, come over here," and he whipped me with a cat-o'-nine-tails. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume X, Missouri Narratives 2011-02-25T03:01:01.877Z "Well, it must be your rank which dazzles her," the Captain suggests, and thinks how he would like to take a cat-o'-nine-tails to her. Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces Our Criminal Code describes a whipping as being a punishment of not more than 25 strokes with the cat-o'-nine-tails inflicted upon a person of not more than 16 years of age. A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science A child on board a slave-ship, of about ten months old, took sulk and would not eat; the captain flogged it with a cat-o'-nine-tails; swearing that he would make it eat, or kill it. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans And one sometimes saw the drummers give a man two or three hundred stripes with the cat-o'-nine-tails, at the head of his regiment. Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 Den he'd take a cat-o'-nine-tails dipped in hot salt water to draw out de bruised blood and would open everyone of dem blisters with dat. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume X, Missouri Narratives 2011-02-25T03:01:01.877Z The foxy-faced captain with the gold-rimmed glasses marched behind his company, and in his hand he carried a brutal whip, a veritable cat-o'-nine-tails. With Haig on the Somme Tell 'em if they swear or quarrel while the planters are aboard they'll get a cat-o'-nine-tails well laid on. Duffels The cat-o'-nine-tails was the favorite punishment for sailors. Historic Boyhoods Moreover this application of the name is unknown in French, which has, however, a word martinet meaning a kind of cat-o'-nine-tails. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) But now even that dear creature, Saint Julius, is beginning to pick up, and looks less as if his diet was mouldy peas and his favourite plaything a cat-o'-nine-tails. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Laughter, you know, is the great world's cat-o'-nine-tails. The Folly Of Eustace 1896 The instrument of torture was a sort of knout or cat-o'-nine-tails, with bits of iron or bone attached to the ends of the thongs. The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion People don't find it worth their while to kidnap a girl and flog her with a cat-o'-nine-tails. The Blue Pavilions Amidships stood a man with a cat-o'-nine-tails, ready to slash any one of the wretched slave paddlers who was not working hard. Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas For this he received six lashes with the cat-o'-nine-tails from every member of the crew, "which disordered him for some weeks." The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers They employed the same—or almost the same—weapons in both directions; the flintlock and the halberd against the Indians, and the cat-o'-nine-tails against the heretics. Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) Their backs are bare, and they lash themselves with a cat-o'-nine-tails till the long train behind is covered all over with blood. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Until lately we flogged our files with a cat-o'-nine-tails, and found heroes by treating men like dogs. The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America An arch dull rogue, who lets the business cool, To show how nicely he can play the fool, Who with buffoonery his dulness clokes, Deserves a cat-o'-nine-tails for his jokes. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character "And the cat-o'-nine-tails, too, eh?" chuckled the Western girl. Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund If ye did I'll skin ye with the lash of my cat-o'-nine-tails. Three Wonder Plays They will never get up on the mountains, maybe, where the laurels grow, or into the shady swamps among the flags and the cat-o'-nine-tails. Real Folks The winter wind whipped him like a cat-o'-nine-tails. Wide Courses She was an ingenious and inventive creature, and made her own cat-o'-nine-tails: an inventor is for ever demonstrating the merits of his implement. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Huh!" protested the boy to Ann, "if she was sending us out to find a lost boy all she'd send would be that cat-o'-nine-tails of hers that hangs in the woodshed. Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund For love is better than a cat-o'-nine-tails, and sympathy saves more souls than threats. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great But the creatures who make fortunes out of all this beastiness and cruelty, I say, they ought to be flogged round the place with a cat-o'-nine-tails till the life is beaten out of them. Kimono We call 'em ropes' ends, or cat-o'-nine-tails, or a belaying-pin. Bob the Castaway Lash him to the mast and give him a taste of the cat-o'-nine-tails. The Red Fairy Book At the same time, she stretched out her arm towards the cat-o'-nine-tails which hung on a nail in the chimney-corner. Les Misérables "Don't hurt much!" exclaimed Mr. Carter; "why, there's a ship-load of cat-o'-nine-tails goes out to Van Diemen's Land every quarter, and reserved specially for young females!" Henry Dunbar A Novel Upon a nail hung a small cat-o'-nine-tails of knotted whipcord. Two Summers in Guyenne We have a brig for trespassers; a bar by our main-mast, at which they are arraigned; a cat-o'-nine-tails and a gangway, to degrade them in their own eyes and in ours. White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War The first interview, purely a casual one, took place on the edge of the lily pond where Olive was sketching frogs, and where Nancy went for cat-o'-nine-tails. Mother Carey's Chickens In the chimney-corner a cat-o'-nine-tails was hanging on a nail. Les Misérables At Halifax, he tried to desert, was caught, brought back and lashed to the "long tom" and received a flogging with the cat-o'-nine-tails. Sustained honor The Age of Liberty Established For years these unfortunate children carried the scars left on their backs by the thongs of cat-o'-nine-tails when he punished them for some slight misdemeanor. The Moccasin Maker With the Articles of War in one hand, and the cat-o'-nine-tails in the other, he stands an undignified parody upon Mohammed enforcing Moslemism with the sword and the Koran. White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War You want her to kiss you on the high cheek-bone, but if you go to play the cat-o'-nine-tails round her, the high cheek-bone gets froze. The World for Sale, Complete I should like to have had him stripped, and that kind of thing, and been well banged by ten of our clippers here with a cat-o'-nine-tails. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 When I was in London twenty-three years ago there was a new penalty in force for diminishing garroting and wife-beating—25 lashes on the bare back with the cat-o'-nine-tails. Following the Equator, Part 2 She took hold of my arm, and without saying a word, gave me ten or twelve strokes over the head and shoulders with this miniature cat-o'-nine-tails. Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal Having no cat-o'-nine-tails in their possession, the lashes were inflicted with hickory withes. The Great Salt Lake Trail "I can't imagine using a cat-o'-nine-tails on them!" she exclaimed—and neither could I. I heard many similar comments. A Traveller in War-Time I suspect that will be the best place for him; then if he plays any of his pranks there will be somebody around with a cat-o'-nine-tails to take it out of him. Kennedy Square He ran the cruel thing through his fingers as does a prison expert the cat-o'-nine-tails before laying on the lashes of penalty. The Judgment House He did pitch into me,—not abusing me, nor even saying a word about the money, which he at once promised to pay, but laying it on to gambling with a regular cat-o'-nine-tails. The Duke's Children Discipline, always brutal, was symbolized by the cat-o'-nine-tails. Jefferson and His Colleagues; a chronicle of the Virginia dynasty "Give me that short chap the cat-o'-nine-tails," and, whack, he has it—or, "Shoot me yonder half-dozen specimens of humanity," and bang, 'tis done! Poems Give me the cat-o'-nine-tails," he said, in conclusion, "and I will keep it for you till you ask me for it again. A Fair Penitent They say it is only the criminal who has any reason to rejoice over the presence of the Union Jack, because in his case the cat-o'-nine-tails, except for very serious crimes, has been abolished. Native Life in South Africa One of these poor unfortunates showed me his back, which is covered with great furrows in the flesh caused by the cat-o'-nine-tails in the hands of a merciless official of the Missouri penitentiary. The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries "That's the first time I ever heard of anybody trying to cure gunshot wounds with cat-o'-nine-tails; but you were ill, and illness renders the head weak, therefore you may be excused." The Three Musketeers This is one of the few penal institutions in our country where the cat-o'-nine-tails is used. The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries |
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