cat-o'nine-tails

The man proves to be a worthless fellow, that has defamed the niece of my dear Sir Hugh Tyrold; and if Hal had lashed him with a cat-o'nine-tails, I should have been glad of it.

Camilla 2008

A female on all fours held her hindquarters up to the cat-o'nine-tails.

Hard Bodies And Soft Core 2008

In my father's time and all along my mother's time, that's when they chained the colored people and cut them all to pieces with cat-o'nine-tails and sprinkled salt and pepper on them.

Father Gave Her to His White People After The War: Oral History Of Her Days As A Slave 1938

While I was lying down he commenced beating me with the cat-o'nine-tails very unmercifully; the more he beat me, the more the water poured out of my mouth.

Autobiography of James L. Smith, Including, Also, Reminiscences of Slave Life, Recollections of the War, Education of Freedmen, Causes of the Exodus, Etc. James Lindsay Smith 1881

We could never hear of these villainous atrocities without shuddering, but still it was right that we should know that the bloody whip, the chain, the red-hot brand, the gag, the thumbscrew, the cat-o'nine-tails, the dungeon, and the blood-hound, were all in constant requisition to keep the slave in his condition as a slave in the slave states of America.

The story of the life of John Anderson : the fugitive slave ed. 1863

I think this whip worse than the "cat-o'nine-tails."

My Bondage and My Freedom. By Frederick Douglass. With and Introduction. By James M`Cune Smith. 1855

It swayed back and forward like a stalk of rye or a cat-o'nine-tails (bulrush) with a bobolink on it.

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

It swayed back and forward like a stalk of rye or a cat-o'nine-tails (bulrush) with a bobolink on it.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

The man proves to be a worthless fellow, that has defamed the niece of my dear Sir Hugh Tyrold; and if Hal had lashed him with a cat-o'nine-tails, I should have been glad of it.

Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth 1796

[146] once the abode of Sandy Simpson, [147] whose cat-o'nine-tails must have left lively memories in Wolfe's army.

Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present 1868