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| 19 | 241 | This View more quotes about last">last blow is often, though not invariably, added to a slave's whipping. |
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| 19 | 238 | Then again, with unrestrained force, the hardest blow of all, was she struck. |
| 19 | 239 | She cried out in pain. |
| 19 | 240 | Then, again, sobbing, she hung in the bracelets, a whipped slave. |
| 19 | 241 | This last blow is often, though not invariably, added to a slave's whipping. |
| 19 | 242 | It is sometimes referred to as the gratis blow, or the mnemonic blow. |
| 19 | 243 | Often it functions as little more than a stroke for, say, good measure. |
| 19 | 244 | To be sure, whatever its purpose, it makes it very clear to the slave that she is fully under discipline, and that the master may, if he wishes, beat her how, when and as much as he pleases. |