1787 R. Burns (1968) I. 216 Hark, how the nine-tail'd cat she plays!
1820 T. B. Macaulay Radical War Song in (1866) 546 Then, then beneath the nine-tailed cat Shall they who used it writhe.
2000 (Nexis) 24 Nov. (Film section) 45 Royer-Collard brings with him the hellish appurtenances of his trade: sarcophaguslike iron maidens, the nine-tailed scourge.