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To them fell the task of carrying that formidable hill which had been so scourged by our artillery.
The reply was, I think, that after having been the scourge of nations, he should himself be destroyed.
When this savage monster first appeared, Minos had been sorely puzzled what to do with such a scourge.
He produces witnesses who swear that they have seen Caligula scourge him and slap him, and beat him.
It was here that the evangelist suffered martyrdom in intention, was cruelly scourged, and plunged in boiling oil.
His race were the men who had set in motion the greatest rebellion ever known, the Taiping scourge.
Swaying with anguish, as under the blows of a scourge, he sinks upon the floor, overwhelmed and quivering.
Though the tropical storms are thus frequently a scourge, they are often productive of no less signal benefits.
What wonder that all men should avoid the open plains, that are the kingdom of such a scourge.
Beware of men, for they shall deliver you up to the councils, and shall scourge you in their synagogues.
The people here value not the gold, for it is unable to buy them freedom from the awful scourge.
On each side of this path rose and broke the angry little seas lashed up by the scourging wind.
There they spent the evening listening to tales of a once great nation before the great scourge of man.
They dared not ask him more; for many were his debtors, and all feared his scourging tongue.
The most destructive scourge to which all wooded sections of our country are exposed is that of forest fires.
Truth pulls out the tongue of Falsehood, Modesty scourges Lust, and Charity pours coin into the throat of Avarice.
Cola Montano, it has been said, had been borne away after his scourging by some women of the people.
Peach-yellows, as yet, was not the scourge it now is but, as we shall see, was well in evidence.
It acted, it scourged, it fought, it strove to build and to clear the ground that it might build.
Every good citizen is keenly desirous of reducing these scourges of society, but the progress of reform is slow.
Attention to the standing water round houses or near towns will do much to diminish the scourge of mosquitoes.
Previously to this the whole world will be scourged, during three winters also, by wars and bloodshed.
It seemed a minute before his voice came, and when it did it scourged her like a sting of a lash.
I see cords, scourges, and instruments of torture for each limb and each joint: but I see Death also.
The Persian captains went behind their wretched troops and scourged them on to the fight with whips!
Needing rest on Sunday, he denies himself respite and scourges his jaded body and brain into new activities.
His life was spared, perhaps on account of his youth, but he was very severely punished by scourging.
They stood stranded and foolish, or stooped to pluck at the scourge that attacked their feet and ankles.
When this was done, he then bade them take a discipline and scourge him with all their might.
To rid the Universe of that scourge to humanity would have been one of the sweetest moments of my life.
Besiegers scattered and fled in panic as twinned beams of dreadful light and heat scourged their hiding places.
The fact is, the duke's vices were turned, as vices frequently are, into scourges for his own back.
She seemed shaken by terror, as by a gale which scourges the trees and overwhelms all living things.
War was then waged, or rather the scourge continued to desolate Germany, and soon threatened and invaded France.
This dreadful scourge lasted ten years, and swept away nearly the whole race of horned cattle throughout Europe.
None survived the seventh day, and it is reported that near two millions perished under the dreadful scourge.
We are, moreover, in sympathy with those scourges of its own lands, the Communist, the Nihilist, the Socialist.
It advanced slowly and reluctantly along the road of civic development, scourged forward by the whip of necessity.
Mohawks and River Indians were once bitter enemies, the former becoming the scourge and terror of the latter.
The scourge fell upon the naval officers who had not fled the country as well as upon others.
My next visit was made during the time when the country was suffering from a scourge of smallpox.
Then he gave orders to scourge the priests, and kill all the Egyptians who should be found feasting.
Above, borne on a shield, is Attila with a scourge in his hand; opposite him Theodoric, king of the Visigoths.
At the same time Idris whipped up his camel with the scourge, and the others followed his example.
Dysentery, that scourge of armies, also raged, and in a short time above five thousand men died in the hospitals.
Even Martial was careful to state that it was vices, not personages, to which his scourge was applied.
She bade the women close the door, and commanded Denise to strip and stand naked for a scourging.
It has taken this scourge to make us stop in our easy course, to make us look into ourselves, into our ways.
He would send for it, he thought; he would keep it by him as a scourge, not as a compulsion.
A noble maiden who is as innocent as the child in its cradle, to be scourged by the common executioner?
It is to make lies our refuge, and under falsehood to hide ourselves, so that we may escape the overflowing scourge.
He knew she was calling to him, therefore he beat his breast and scourged himself to cure his longing.
Fate, which had scourged him with the initial scourge of blindness, had seen fit to take his Angelina away.
I cannot answer these questions, but it would be foolish to act as if the scourges did not exist.
The Judge upon his bench deals out the dreaded justice to the scourged, and has no look of gentleness.
We have, however, nothing of the kind here yet, though we expect we shall not escape the general scourge.
He glanced towards me in some obvious surprise, and this astonishment of a servant acted upon me almost like a scourge.
To such beings a lawsuit is a luxury, instead of being regarded as a source of anxiety, and a real scourge.
Thomas Dixon, Jr., beyond doubt owes his emotional power to the very race which he has elected to scourge.
Fire, plague, famine, no matter what scourge, is preferable to the presence of such a man in human society.
She would also have a refuge from thought and memory, both of which were scourging her cruelly just now.
Certainly the six or eight motors must have been a scourge to the dusty villages through which we passed.
How many have gone out into the desert and denied themselves rest and food, and scourged themselves to blood!
Neither did he at first, till the great cholera scourge of 1849, when people were dying all around him.
It seemed as if an angry heaven had sent this fearful scourge into the world expressly to destroy all harmony.
Luther took this all in and strove frantically by fasting, prayer, and scourging to fit himself for redemption.
Having lost his two children during the cholera scourge of 1832, he was left without a direct heir.
The deep and earnest love she bore the worthless king, must have been a sore scourge to her own heart.
When a man had to be put to death, scourged, or exiled, there was no need for a written bond.
For no slave was ever marked by his master's scourge as Herod's heart was lashed by his conscience.
Even this wash, excellent as it is, will sometimes fail to get rid of the scourge in a bad year.
It is a very frequent camp disease, and has been the scourge of all armies in tropical and semi-tropical regions.
By what scourge had they been cut off, or what reason had induced them to quit so beautiful a city?
It is the scourge of scourges, the father of piracy and of murder, the mother of havoc, desolation and woe.
They are not a whip put in your hand to scourge your passengers with, but an authority for an emergency.
Or shall we, as blind instruments of boundless ambition, come hither as a scourge to add to their present miseries?
They were subject, too, to periodical returns of a terrible scourge, a disease resembling the influenza, which cut off multitudes.
All day long he was busy with them, and during the night he was scourging himself or praying.
About thirty years later, however, the scourge was renewed, and the destructive insects were actually brought to trial.
The simple fact of drying up the marshes when the harbor was building sufficed to destroy the scourge.
Scourging was frequently inflicted by the Romans before execution, but never before the prisoner was convicted and sentenced.
The scourge of the coureurs de bois, later to prove so damaging to the colony, was beginning to be felt.
To him or to her, however, who voluntarily goes to meet those difficulties they become welcome guests, not a scourge.
These larger obligations run to the peoples and races on whom the scourge of these crimes was laid.
She silently made this resolve whilst the Sister led the way to the couch of the scourged thief.
He was arrested, and identified as a member of the famous band that had been the scourge of the interior.
A little obscure place canceled in with iron work is the pillar or stump at which... our Savior was scourged.
It was said that Wyatt had built up for himself a semi-independent command, and was becoming a great scourge.
Another of his slaves was sent to the Forum and severely scourged, because he had insulted a prominent man.
Thrice all that was fine and sweet in her had leapt forth, only to be scourged back into hiding.
We fought it, holding to the ropes with our teeth, bare to the waist, with the wind scourging us.
The scourge of heaven's justice strikes without end, because even under its strokes our bad actions are not corrected.
The accounts that we read of this scourge, in papers or in books, seldom show it up in its true colors.
I cannot scourge my top as long as you stand so: you take up all the room with your wide legs.
On beholding this disorder, the spectator would suppose the village had been scourged with a hurricane or an earthquake.
Everyone will feel pleased and relieved when they hear that she has actually captured the scourge of the country.
"Yes, for it would be my duty to rid my neighborhood of such a scourge," she replied, very low.
Yet more shrill, before their mood could alter, the Pretty Lily scourged them with the tongue of a humorous woman.
He was in their eyes a hero; he had scourged their savage enemy, and had driven him to the rocks.
Genevieve persuaded them, in imitation of Judith and Hester, to endeavor to avert the scourge, by fasting, watching, and prayer.