We parted company with them, and Will led me past the whipping-post and the stocks to the jail in High Street where my uncle and Ben Fadger had been locked up. ❋ Bailey MacDonald (2009)
I was near the stocks and the whipping-post when someone touched my shoulder, making me spin around. ❋ Bailey MacDonald (2009)
Captain; “for the tamned woman with the besom might have some advantage in that long dark passage, knowing the ground better than I do — tamn her, I will have amends on her, if there be whipping-post, or ducking-stool, or a pair of stocks in the parish!” ❋ Unknown (2008)
And if the concept of cultural appropriation grants any marginal culture's equivalent of Jesse Helms the power and privilege to say that an individual is a second-class citizen because of their sexuality, and takes away the power and privilege I have to piss on his sacred whipping-post, I reckon we're working with a concept that's FUBAR, that needs to be stripped down and overhauled. ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)
Bridewell, and ceased to be flourished at the carts tail and at the whipping-post, it began to fade out of madhouses, and workhouses, and schools and families, and to give place to a better system everywhere, than cruel driving. ❋ Unknown (2007)
“A post!” exclaimed the magistrate; “a whipping-post, I suppose, you mean?” ❋ Unknown (2007)
Let us have the whipping-post again, and at the flogging let the crime of ‘unmanly brutes’ be written over their heads. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I am not here to scourge sinners; I am true to my party; it is the other side this humble pen attacks; let us keep to the virtuous and respectable, for as for poor sinners they get the whipping-post every day. ❋ Unknown (2006)
He never was flogged, but it was a wonder how he escaped the whipping-post. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Canning, Castlereagh, Bexley, Sidmouth, he is at them, one and all; and as for the Prince, up to what a whipping-post of ridicule did he tie that unfortunate old man! ❋ Unknown (2006)
“Pages lie to their masters by right of custom,” said the citizen; “and you write yourself in that band, though I think you be among the oldest of such springalds; but to me you must speak truth, if you would not have it end in the whipping-post.” ❋ Unknown (2004)
She showed us dark passages, a gloomy apartment in which Welsh kings and great people had been occasionally confined, that strange memorial of the good old times, a drowning pit, and a large prison room, in the middle of which stood a singular-looking column, scrawled with odd characters, which had of yore been used for a whipping-post, another memorial of the good old baronial times, so dear to romance readers and minds of sensibility. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Pipes, take this saucy son of a b — and help him to the whipping-post in the yard. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It might be that a sluggish bond-servant, or an undutiful child, whom his parents had given over to the civil authority, was to be corrected at the whipping-post. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Bison approached the whipping-post and stood beside the lean, hawk-faced soldier who had been ordered to complete the sentence. ❋ Gemmell, David (1997)
No more vehement Republican organ can be found in the land, for instance, than the Wilmington _Commercial_: it is not in its columns that you will see ingenious defences of the whipping-post at Newcastle or of the crushing taxes levied at Dover, whereby a lazy State feeds greedily upon a hard-working metropolis. ❋ Various (N/A)
