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[170] Being transported to this country, he was employed as a scourger, and thus trained to cruelty, entered the bush.— The History of Tasmania , Volume II
The office of scourger was usually held by a convict; it meant promotion in the Government service, and although there was some danger connected with it, there was always a sufficient number of candidates to fill vacancies.— The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned
But monster and master-scourger as he proved himself, he always took the side of the oppressed as against the oppressor.— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters
"To Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin; to the Judgment Hall of Pilate; to the scourger and the cross if they have power."— The Coming of the King
Lewis Philip, a scourger of young native Americans, 50— The Biglow Papers
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