2. Verb. (third-person singular of scourge) ¹
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Definition of Scourges
1. scourge [v] - See also: scourge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scourges
Literary usage of Scourges
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... oí racks and of scourges, allots a spacious and airy prison for the place of
their ... scourges ..."
2. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1858)
"... sent—Jefferson's Reply—Operations in Western Virginia—Project against Detroit-
Governor consults Washington—Gives Clarke an Option—Clarke scourges the ..."
3. History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1879)
"... Peter scourges an Archbishop—Oswald ---His Victory—Gorman—Mission of Oswald
and Aidan—Death of Oswald. IT is matter of fact that the spiritual life had ..."
4. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1871)
"... Western Virginia—Project against Detroit- Governor consults Washington—Gives
Clarke an Option—Clarke scourges the Hostile Tribes—Border Heroism—Project ..."
5. A Plea for the West by Lyman Beecher (1835)
"... even though Catholics, as tending to schisms, despotism against the pastors,
and constituting one of the greatest scourges of the church. ..."
6. History of the Northwest Coast by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Henry Lebbeus Oak (1886)
"... WHOM HE scourges TO HIS COMPLETE SATISFACTION, HE RETURNS TO FRANCE. Outlined,
the journey was from London to Boston, thence to Montreal, ..."
7. Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury, Edward Walford (1881)
"... Street Row—Sir Thomas More—Snakes and Eels—A Plague of a Wife—A Scene in the
Tower—scourges and Hair Shirts—No Bribery- Charles Dickens and " Pickwick ..."
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