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“Why!” said I, “he will flog you for running away from Oxford.”

From Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Reed, Talbot Baines

Sometimes it takes the form of a theory which holds that one can at will flog anything into or out of a pupil.

From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)

"I believe Wellington will flog Bonaparte's marshals into the sea the day it pleases him to lift his arm."

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte

"I will flog the knave soundly when he comes," cried the father, vainly endeavoring, under an appearance of sternness, to hide his inward emotion and tenderness.

From Burlesques by Thackeray, William Makepeace