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Meanings of chastise with scorpions in английском

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Usage of chastise with scorpions in английском
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Undiscerning, they chastise with scorpions the old authentic sins, but spare the new.
Problems of Conduct: An Introductory Survey of Ethics
2
Kingly title 1would he none; yet where kings had chastised with whips, he had chastised with scorpions.
London Pride, Or, When the World Was Younger
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She was being chastised with scorpions to-night.
Bella Donna: A Novel
4
They are being beaten with whips of their own choosing and if I had my way they should be chastised with scorpions!
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
5
But the little finger of the reforming pope was thicker than the Puritan's loins; where Calvin had chastised with whips Sixtus V chastised with scorpions.
The Age of the Reformation