Scourge

(noun.) a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor).

(verb.) punish severely; excoriate.

尤金伲亚整理

• Inquiry was made into the origin of the scourge, and by degrees various facts came out which excited public indignation in a high degree. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I have a tough hide, that will bear knife or scourge as well as any boar's hide in my herd. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Get thy wounds healed, purvey thee a better horse, and it may be I will hold it worth my while to scourge out of thee this boyish spirit of bravado. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I was the scourge of both, and that is referable to her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Warm from illuminations, and music, and thronging thousands, thoroughly lashed up by a new scourge, I defied spectra. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• He may strike the head from me--he may scourge me--he may load me with irons--but henceforth he shall never compel me either to love or to obey him. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Poor Rosamond's vagrant fancy had come back terribly scourged--meek enough to nestle under the old despised shelter. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It is very painful, said Dorothea, feeling scourged. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Let her plant Medicis and build grand monuments over them to testify how gratefully she was wont to lick the hand that scourged her. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• That was in the great days of Pablo when he scourged the country like a tartar and no fascist post was safe at night. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• If I had--killed your--mother with my own hand--I should not deserve such a scourging to the bone as this. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

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