Indeed, if it depended on the better classes, the confederates would be put to death without trial and with violence; while the commons were their refuge and the Chastiser of these men.
"The History of the Peloponnesian War"
Thucydides
But if the enemy you have to deal with should appear, as France now appears, under the very name and title of the deliverer of the poor and the Chastiser of the rich, the former class would readily become not an indifferent spectator of the war, but would be ready to enlist in the faction of the enemy,-which they would consider, though under a foreign name, to be more connected with them than an adverse description in the same land.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
I shall order a legal document drawn up and served upon him, because I believe it is a work of mercy to punish him, as he is so unbridled in his speech that some one must punish him without the rod: and it will not be so much against the conscience of the Chastiser, and will injure him more.
"Christopher Columbus, Complete"
Filson Young