How To Use cat-o'-nine-tails In A Sentence
- A moment later, another of the invaders lashed him with a peculiar weapon that looked something like a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- Flogging with the cat-o'-nine-tails and hanging were the major punishments.
- Volney claimed that prisons officials were asking judges not to impose the cat-o'-nine-tails since they could not find them.
- Selina ignored him, but I thought I could detect a hint of longing in the way she fingered the whip looped at her belt (a cat-o'-nine-tails).
- Jesus is beaten with canes, then with an early version of a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- In medieval prisons, inmates were punished with a device called a "cat-o'-nine-tails" -- a whip made of nine knotted thongs of cord designed to lacerate the skin and cause intense pain. How Does Ringling Bros. Make Elephants Do That?
