branding-iron

We're watching "The Water Under The Water" and I am middle-aged and my husband and I gripe all weekend about animal care, who does what and all the things that have gotten ruined by the animals, whose fault it was... and Marlton, right there in the dark popcorn-less screening room assaults my left earlobe with branding-iron heat.

Indiscretions Meg Pokrass 2011

Indirectly, that’s the reason my brain’s on fire, but I assure you this is the good kind, the flames of inspiration more than the branding-iron burn of knowledge that the world is filled with terrible people.

iamrazorwing: Stories In Slivers iamrazorwing 2009

Indirectly, that’s the reason my brain’s on fire, but I assure you this is the good kind, the flames of inspiration more than the branding-iron burn of knowledge that the world is filled with terrible people.

Stories In Slivers iamrazorwing 2009

On Lerna's murderous hound, the many-headed hydra, he set his branding-iron, and smeared its venom on his darts, wherewith he slew the shepherd of Erytheia, a monster with three bodies;

Heracles 2008

On Lerna's murderous hound, the many-headed hydra, he set his branding-iron, and smeared its venom on his darts, wherewith he slew the shepherd of Erytheia, a monster with three bodies;

Heracles 2008

Tables are topped with cracked linoleum and walls are lined with branding-iron designations from local ranches.

Blue-Staters Run Through It 2008

Public opinion has knotted the lash, heated the branding-iron, loaded the rifle, and shielded the murderer.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

That will go back into the imperial tool-chest where it can be used as a branding-iron against dissidents, troublesome critics, or political enemies.

Bush's Reckless attack on the Bill of Rights 2005

At the outset, the girl obstinately prevaricated, but when she eventually heard that lady Feng intended to take a red-hot branding-iron and burn her mouth with, she at last sobbingly spoke out.

Hung Lou Meng 2003

Many bore the scars of the lash or the branding-iron.

The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003