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Updated: May 6, 2025
F. Hugh O'Donnell and others forced a Liberal Government to drop the cat-o-nine-tails like a scorpion, we could have counted on a mass of honest hatred of such things. We cannot count on it now. But lastly, it is not necessary that in the factories of the future the institution of physical punishment should actually remind people of the jambok or the knout.
At this very moment the constable has bound an idle fellow to the whipping-post and is giving him his deserts with a cat-o-nine-tails.
The fourth boatswain's mate, with a fresh cat-o-nine-tails swung it about his head and brought the terrible scourge hissing and crackling on the young and tender back. Fernando turned his face away and wept. "My God! oh! my God!" shouted Sukey, and he writhed and leaped, until he displaced the gratings, scattering the nine-tails of the scourge all over his person.
If you say that again, I'll chase you with a cat-o-nine-tails. . . . The very idea of insulting a great man in that way!" While he tolerated this blond brood, he never would permit the slightest intimacy. Desnoyers and his wife often had to come to their rescue, accusing the grandfather of injustice.
May the ensign of loyalty float over us the jack of pure patriotism lead us and may the pendant of every British man-of-war serve as a cat-o-nine-tails to whip our enemies with. May England's name and England's fame stand for ever pure, great and free. May every true Briton be possessed of peace, plenty, and content.
The hands of the man who is to be punished, are tied at each end of the upright pieces, and his legs are secured to the same on each side below, in which position he is exposed to the merciless scourge of the drummer, which is a common cat-o-nine-tails.
He would not even go as a passenger, but must serve in some capacity, as cabin-boy, apprentice or sailor, he did not care which, so he was put in charge of John Mangles, to be properly trained for his vocation. "And I hope he won't spare me the 'cat-o-nine-tails' if I don't do properly," said Robert.
This was how it seemed to Aynesworth, as he studied his companion through the faint blue mist of tobacco smoke. "This expression of your sentiments," he remarked at last, "is interesting so far as it goes. I am, however, a practical person, and my connection with you is of a practical order. You don't propose, I presume, to promenade the streets with a cat-o-nine-tails?"
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