Corporal

Some of them, we had to use what you call corporal punishment. ❋ Unknown (2001)

When Father arrives at the altar he removes the corporal from the burse and unfolds it on the mensa, placing the chalice which he has carried with him on top of the corporal. ❋ Unknown (2009)

With teachers still raw from the layoffs, she told a business magazine that an unspecified number of the sacked educators "had had sex" with students or had engaged in corporal punishment. ❋ Bill Turque (2010)

I think it will be WONDERFUL not to have a body ... as much as my body gives me (and others) a lot of pleasure, being corporal is a very heavy way to exist. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Marine Corps corporal is a leading proponent of one of the toughest immigration laws in the country. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Oelschig replied counter-revolutionary wars were often referred to as corporal, lieutenant or sergeants 'wars. ❋ Unknown (1996)

He waited a moment or two as if willing to give the old woman time to speak: then, when he saw that she kept her thin, quivering lips resolutely glued together he called his corporal to him. ❋ Emmuska Orczy Orczy (1906)

In one of the minor Krijgsraads in Natal there was a tie in the voting, which was ended when an old burgher called his corporal aside and influenced him to change his vote. ❋ Howard C. Hillegas (1895)

I had my lesson, so I called the corporal and explained that his men were to come in relays, and when the coffee-pot was empty there was more in the house; and I left them to serve themselves, while I finished dressing. ❋ Mildred Aldrich (1890)

The corporal is just coming out of hospital, almost completely paralyzed, to be taken care of for the rest of his life, and the man who rescued him has got promotion and a pension. ❋ Isabella Lucy (1883)

I told them I had been raised with gemmen, and by gemmen that wouldn't 'a had a Yankee to black thar boots; and at that, one that they called the corporal, knocked me down. ❋ Mary Jane (1864)

He had been driven in an omnibus, he told Lucy, with some more Americans and English, and with flags with stars and stripes or else Union Jacks all over it; and whenever they came to a French sentry, or afterwards to a Prussian, they were stopped till he called his corporal, who looked at their papers and let them go on. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)

At once were present a Prince of the Imperial family of France, the Duc de Rouchefoucault, and a certain corporal in the French service, who was perhaps the best known man in the whole army, the Viscount Talon. ❋ Unknown (1857)

Moreover, Why is the Spirit or Soul so passible in corporal Pains? ❋ Unknown (1692)

This odious office was authoritatively imposed on the richest citizens of each town; they had no salary, and all their compensation was, to be exempt from certain corporal punishments, in case they should have incurred them. ❋ Unknown (1206)

Christ had spoken of a liberty wherewith the truth would make them free, which must be meant of a spiritual liberty, for truth as it is the enriching, so it is the enfranchising of the mind, and the enlarging of that from the captivity of error and prejudice; and yet they plead against the offer of spiritual liberty that they were never in corporal thraldom, as if, because they were never in bondage to any man, they were never in bondage to any lust. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Because their Sergeants and Inspectors do not have a single day’s training on what the Army calls “Junior Leaders” – an Army corporal is better trained on leadership than they are. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)