scarificators

Updated: August 7, 2026

I thought thou hadst been more of a man; that thou art not afraid of an acute death, a sword's point, to be so plaugily hip'd at the consequences of a chronical one! What though the scarificators work upon him day by day? But art thou sure, Jack, it is a mortification?

Samuel Richardson - Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4