courters

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The scourgers faithfully performed their duty, at the same time gratuitously cursing the traitorous and rebellious Hellespont with what Herodotus calls "non-Hellenic and blasphemous terms."

From General History for Colleges and High Schools by Myers, Philip Van Ness

Landor.—I do; their sculpture and painting have been employed on most ignoble objects—on scourgers and hangmen, on beggarly enthusiasts and base impostors.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 by Various

The two nearest scourgers are fine powerful figures, but I should admit that they remind me rather of D'Enrico than of Tabachetti, though they might also be very well by him, and probably are so.

From Ex Voto by Butler, Samuel