branding-irons

‘Have hot branding-irons brought to me and summon all my staff.’

The War of the Crowns Christian Jacq 2002

We found the branding-irons did not answer for branding trees, as it took a much longer time to do so than to mark them with a tomahawk, so we buried them at a tree marked Dig, at the camp we left this morning.

Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough

Star-chambers, branding-irons, chimerical Kings and Surplices at

The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education

No mark of the branding-irons scarred his shoulder or thin transparent flanks.

When Dreams Come True Ritter Brown

For tyrants, anxious to make those whom they punish wretched, keep executioners and torturers, and contrive branding-irons and other instruments of torture to inspire fear [309] in the brute soul, whereas vice attacks the soul without any such apparatus, and crushes and dejects it, and fills a man with sorrow, and lamentation, and melancholy, and remorse.

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

Public whipping-houses were provided for the expeditious correction of the refractory, and a mere suspicion of intent to escape was legal justification for the use of the branding-irons upon their flesh.

Old John Brown, the man whose soul is marching on Walter Hawkins

Grande and his hounds are hunting us this night; not the tumbril, the branding-irons, nor the cart's tail, are for us; but the pains of death, the fire eternal, the untirable worm, the trumpet of the Last Things!

Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett

We roosted under a slanting shed -- where were stock saddles, silver-mounted bits and spurs, rawhide riatas, branding-irons, and all the lumber of the cattle business.

The California Birthday Book Various

They lassoed him promptly and built a fire to heat the branding-irons.

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

"Branding cattle is rotten," he insisted, in season and out of season; adding on one occasion to a group of cowpunchers standing about a fire with branding-irons in their hands, "and you who do the branding are all going to hell."

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923