It is possible that Will Walford's punishment might have been still more severe, but that his Castigator was pressed for time-so much so, that he left the wretch without releasing him, with a set of suffering bones, and a skin that exhibited all the colours of the rainbow.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
But he happened to be thanking Gower Woodseer's whip for the comfortable numbness he felt at Carinthia's behaviour, while detesting her for causing him to desire it and endure it, and exonerate his prosy Castigator.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
As for Bishop Wilberforce, he carried with him from the affray no bitterness, but was always afterwards most courteous to his Castigator.
"Stories of Authors, British and American"
Edwin Watts Chubb