flagellators

A neighborhood basketball court is the home of one part of the festival; exhausted flagellators rest under the hoops and free throw line, and have a quick soothing cigarette -- after handing their whips to local school boys only too happy to continue the rhythmic flogging of raw weeping flesh.

Virginia M. Moncrieff: What a Way to Spend Easter: Which Way to the Crucifixion? 2010

And these anti-leaning politicians tend to be Christian right extremists - all self-flagellators on some level - and probably take the anti literature to bed with them as masturbatory material.

I have come to the conclusion that nobody is serious about wanting to stop trafficking. « Bound, Not Gagged 2008

A neighborhood basketball court is the home of one part of the festival; exhausted flagellators rest under the hoops and free throw line, and have a quick soothing cigarette -- after handing their whips to local school boys only too happy to continue the rhythmic flogging of raw weeping flesh.

What a Way to Spend Easter: Which Way to the Crucifixion? 2010

The Jesuit Edmund Auger, confessor to Henry III., persuaded that unfortunate prince to put himself at the head of the flagellators.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

These flagellators inundated Europe; there are many of them still to be found in Italy, in Spain, and even in France, at

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

In that moment, I understood the medieval self-flagellators who lashed themselves with chains to promote inner ecstasy.

pair of 45's made me open my eyes 2006

In that moment, I understood the medieval self-flagellators who lashed themselves with chains to promote inner ecstasy.

spirit of the staircase 2006

In a few seconds six flagellators, bearing their cats and triangles, hastened to the spot.

Ralph Rashleigh 2004

The drummer, having received the signal, began to tap his drum in a slow and deliberate manner, marking time for the lashes, as they were inflicted by the willing and brawny arms of the flagellators, who were selected for this office from among the most muscular prisoners that would accept such a hideous berth, which, as before remarked, entailed upon them ever after the execrations of their fellow-convicts.

Ralph Rashleigh 2004

Yet there were they arrogating to themselves every privilege of judgment and jurisdiction that the most fashionable peers or the sublimest souls could claim; to their own minds the arbiters of elegance, the patrons of the arts, the flagellators of vice and snobbery, the gracious laudators of virtue, the easy fomenters of scandal.

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895