After he was tied up, the overseer told me to give him a severe flogging, and left me.

Take the thief, strip off his shirt, tie him to a tree, and give him a severe flogging.

Yes, Grandma Elsie, and if he finds it out I'll be pretty sure to get a severe flogging.

A negro woman was found chained, covered with bruises and wounds from severe flogging.-Allthe apartments were then forced open.

Tinah then left me to enquire after the bedding, and I sent the offender on board, whom I punished with a severe flogging.

One day Mr. Marchinton saw me quite at the main-truck; and, calling me down, I got a severe flogging for my dexterity and enterprise.

He had experienced "rough usage" all the way along through life, not unfrequently from severe floggings.