flogged

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Flogged by the boyhood club he didn't want to leave for a fee that invited ridicule and proved to be not so much a monkey on his back as a silverback gorilla on his face.

From The Guardian • Jul. 16, 2012

"Flogged once a week for years, that tree was."

From Berry And Co. by Yates, Dornford

Nay, failed I now, what were my years of toil More than the endurance of a harnessed brute, Flogged to his daily work, that cannot view 710 The high design to which his labour steps?

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert

Author of "Flogged for a Furlong", "Won by a Winker", etc., etc.

From Three Elephant Power and Other Stories by Paterson, A. B. (Andrew Barton)