...lashes, without a groan ; they will often lie as if without life, and the drummers appear to be flog ging a lump of dead, raw flesh. Now, I have frequently...the willing drummers had, up to that moment, laid in the lash with great asperity. This low and scarcely audible sound, spoke aloud to my mind that the...

...the time they receive one lash to 300 lashes, and then they bear the remainder, even to 800 or 1000 lashes, without a groan ; they will often lie as .if...by hearts that felt deeply, and this too, when the soldier believed in its justice, and approved of the punishment, when the willing drummers had, up...

...(soldiers) assumed a look of disgust ; there wax a ow whispering sound, scarcely audible, issuing Tom the apparently stern and silent ranks — a sound...that sound was produced by hearts that felt deeply." "I have known" (says an old soldier in the Sketches and Tales of a Soldier's Life) " regiments entirely...

...from one lash to three hundred lashes, and then they bear the remainder, even to eight hundred or a thousand lashes, without a groan. They will often...ranks ; a sound arising from lips that spoke not. This was the system for censuring which William Cobbett, formerly sergeant-major in the 54th Foot,...

...lump of dead raw flesh. The faces of the spectators (soldiers) assumed a look of disgust ; there was a low whispering sound, scarcely audible, issuing...that sound was produced by hearts that felt deeply. * * The low sound sometimes resembled what may be called sniffing, and may be occasioned by an increased...