The penalty of flogging, preferred by the peasants to fine or imprisonment, was not unknown.
The rest of the chickens were flogging all over the tiny coop, bouncing off the walls in a state of panic.
His great partiality for flogging was noted, but not held against him.
The film accurately portrays the brutality of 1st century flogging.
Punishment may take forms varying from capital punishment, flogging and mutilation of the body to imprisonment, fines, and even deferred sentences which come into operation only if an offence is repeated within a specified time.