| 1. | Seavenfold, and scourge that wisdom back to Hell. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | It has been the scourge of Europe. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | To scourge you for this apprehension. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | Who spake aloud 'What scourge for perjur. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | The scourge and ruin of my realm and rac. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 6. | The scourge of greatness to be us'd on it. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | See what a scourge is laid upon your hate. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 8. | That I must be their scourge and minister. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 9. | The scourge forgot, on Rhesus' chariot hun. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 10. | The lifted scourges all at once resoun. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 11. | Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. - from The King James Bible |
| 12. | And send thee scourged and howling through the fleet.. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 13. | He wears a hairshirt of pure Irish manufacture winter and summer and scourges himself every Saturday. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 14. | Then released he Barabbas unto them and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified. - from The King James Bible |
| 15. | The wretched sinners were then seized by the Furies, who scourged them with their whips, and dragged them along to the great gate, which closed the opening to Tartarus, into whose awful depths they were hurled, to suffer endless torture. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 16. | And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified. - from The King James Bible |
| 17. | And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her she shall be scourged they shall not be put to death, because she was not free. - from The King James Bible |
| 18. | When arriv'd, Where underneath the gaping arch lets pass The scourged souls "Pause here," the teacher said, "And let these others miserable, now Strike on thy ken, faces not yet beheld, For that together they with us have walk'd.. - from The Divine Comedy, Complete by Dante Alighieri |