Why did you wish to flog the boy?

It was the better part of discretion, something told him, not to flog the boy before so many witnesses.

I suppose that you've a right to flog the boy, but it strikes me that a broom handle is rather an ugly weapon.

He never flogs the boys, because he is too easy, good-humoured a creature to inflict pain on a worm.

"Miserable blasphemer," says North, "I tell you that you shall not flog the boy."