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According to the Hiscox Artist Top 100, Aboudia, real name Abdoulaye Diarrassouba, had flogged 75 lots.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2024

Bloggs, dear old chap, flogged the meaning of Virgil into me, but I wish he had flogged in some of the meaning of life along with it.

From The Yeoman Adventurer by Gough, George W.

The man of Como, whom Marcellus had flogged, will be remembered—the Roman citizen who had first been made a citizen by Cæsar.

From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony

The Mate, anxious to get his head on pillow, had flogged the clock and had struck eight bells himself.

From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by Bone, David W.

He had been the hope of Sir Button Budd, Who bred him there at the Fletchings stud, But the Fletchings jockey had flogged him cold In a narrow thing as a two-year-old.

From Right Royal by Masefield, John