whipping-post

I was near the stocks and the whipping-post when someone touched my shoulder, making me spin around.

Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

I was near the stocks and the whipping-post when someone touched my shoulder, making me spin around.

Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

We parted company with them, and Will led me past the whipping-post and the stocks to the jail in High Street where my uncle and Ben Fadger had been locked up.

Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

We parted company with them, and Will led me past the whipping-post and the stocks to the jail in High Street where my uncle and Ben Fadger had been locked up.

Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

Captain; “for the tamned woman with the besom might have some advantage in that long dark passage, knowing the ground better than I do — tamn her, I will have amends on her, if there be whipping-post, or ducking-stool, or a pair of stocks in the parish!”

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

And if the concept of cultural appropriation grants any marginal culture's equivalent of Jesse Helms the power and privilege to say that an individual is a second-class citizen because of their sexuality, and takes away the power and privilege I have to piss on his sacred whipping-post, I reckon we're working with a concept that's FUBAR, that needs to be stripped down and overhauled.

Archive 2006-09-01 Hal Duncan 2006

And if the concept of cultural appropriation grants any marginal culture's equivalent of Jesse Helms the power and privilege to say that an individual is a second-class citizen because of their sexuality, and takes away the power and privilege I have to piss on his sacred whipping-post, I reckon we're working with a concept that's FUBAR, that needs to be stripped down and overhauled.

The Power and the Piss Hal Duncan 2006

Bridewell, and ceased to be flourished at the carts tail and at the whipping-post, it began to fade out of madhouses, and workhouses, and schools and families, and to give place to a better system everywhere, than cruel driving.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

“A post!” exclaimed the magistrate; “a whipping-post, I suppose, you mean?”

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

Let us have the whipping-post again, and at the flogging let the crime of ‘unmanly brutes’ be written over their heads.

Archive 2007-05-01 2007