You usually find them the victims of ceaseless toil without rest, of that destroying fretfulness which brain-fag brings, and of some flogger of exhausted nerves, such as coffee in excess.
"The Young Man and the World"
Albert J. Beveridge
The man just gone, coarse, low-bred, brutal soldier as he was, man-flogger, and drilling-block, had yet found heart to feel my baseness, and words in which to denounce it.
"Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France"
Stanley J. Weyman
It was generally given out as "piece work" to one man, the "master-flogger," as you might term him, who employed the others.
"The Life Story of an Old Rebel"
John Denvir