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It involved a "fives batting," that is, a "birching" carried out with

A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Wilfred Thomason Grenfell 1902

There is also a simply delightful encounter with a birching enthusiast named Mr. Barvile.

fanny hill « paper fruit 2010

Over the years, I'd gone from what I fondly imagined to be a switched-on, youngish-minded mum to a rancid, middle-aged harridan, glaring at shrieking texting huddles in the street – youngsters I didn't even know, but would consider lightly birching.

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There is also a simply delightful encounter with a birching enthusiast named Mr. Barvile.

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He always said after a birching he never saw the same arse twice! on June 6, 2008 at 12: 00 am | Reply Avie

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Could we be different and innovative by perhaps reverting to the more traditional method of public birching? on November 4, 2008 at 10: 30 pm | Reply Ranter

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The beating and birching have been abolished now, as has the fag system and some of the more absurd bits of the dress code.

The Eton Empire Hitchens, Christopher 2008

In some rural areas the tradition also includes slight birching by the Krampus, especially of young females.

‘Twas the night before Saint Nicholas Day « Musings from an overworked translator 2008

And there is nothing wrong with being an old, birching, national service advocatin' eurosceptic, dominatrix visitin' Tory either.

Battleship Dunwoody to Relaunch 2007

Secondly, I note that again reference is made in what I deem to be a fairly mocking and disdainful way to the Manx "only recently decriminalising homosexuality and repealing its birching law".

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