He never flogs the boys, because he is too easy, good-humoured a creature to inflict pain on a worm.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
The vestals are corrected by stripes for any faults which they commit, sometimes by the Pontifex Maximus, who flogs the culprit without her clothes, but with a curtain drawn before her.
"Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4)"
Plutarch
To say that every man who beats his children and every schoolmaster who flogs a pupil is a conscious debauchee is absurd: thousands of dull, conscientious people beat their children conscientiously, because they were beaten themselves and think children ought to be beaten.
"The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors"
George Bernard Shaw