A number of instances of severe whipping came under my notice.

He said he had a great mind to give me a severe whipping.

After several days he returned, and received a severe whipping.

For this neglect, her mistress had her back made naked and a severe whipping inflicted.

The overseer gave me a severe whipping on the second day that I was in the field.

They were often in danger of starving; and severe whipping, administered to promote labour, only increased discontent.

And the most severe whipping he ever give me was because I was cruel to a cat.'

He adds that this severe whipping was always followed by the application of strong brine to the lacerated parts.

A young woman, who was generally very badly treated, after receiving a more severe whipping than usual, ran away.

He had suffered so much from severe whipping and abuse of every kind that he wasted away and died of consumption.

Punishment was always in the form of a severe whipping or revocation of a slave's privilege, such as visiting other plantations etc.

Had not the doctor been one of the most indulgent of masters, he would not have escaped with merely a severe whipping.

When the man came home to his dinner, he showed the dog the pieces of the shirt, and gave him a severe whipping.

After a severe whipping, to save himself from further infliction of the lash, with which he was threatened, he took to the woods.

Colburn, learning that he had been to his master with complaints, tied him up again, and gave him a more severe whipping than before.

Several boys ran away; some were returned, and given severe whippings and starvation diets.