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horsewhip

[hawrs-hwip, -wip] / ˈhɔrsˌʰwɪp, -ˌwɪp /






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That dropped horsewhip, they soon knew, was an early sign of the brain tumors that would end her life a year later.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2019

Then on one spring day in April 2016, Margaret did something for the first time in her riding life: She dropped her horsewhip.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2019

In an incident reported in the British papers, the father of the young woman who would become Mr. Wilson’s second wife once descended on a dinner party in the couple’s London flat, brandishing a horsewhip.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2013

Why should they bother to horsewhip a poor little creature like Westbrook Pegler?

From Time Magazine Archive

Jemmy found the horsewhip where Hold-Your- Nose Billy had dropped it.

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman

When her former guide & friend Johann Most made slighting remarks about Berkman, Emma horsewhipped him publicly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Young Bennett lived in Europe for most of his childhood; his mother could not abide the ostracism of a polite society that noticed her husband only when it horsewhipped him.

From Time Magazine Archive

That scoundrel? that blackleg? that villain who was horsewhipped at Epsom?

From The Living Link by James De Mille

The editor himself doesn't sit around waiting to be horsewhipped.

From The Tyranny of Weakness by Paul Stahr

Editors were neither horsewhipped in the streets, nor deserved to be, and that impertinent eavesdropper and babbler, the interviewer, was unknown.

From Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

Dozens of readers are arguing about the credibility of the plot line that saw Thomas’ misunderstanding with Jimmy the junior footman result in his receiving a promotion rather than a jail term or a horsewhipping.

From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2013

"The Four Seasons," to San Francisco, are the four socialite daughters of horsewhipping Mike De Young, who founded the Chronicle in 1865 and died in 1925.

From Time Magazine Archive

Only the dread of bringing unpleasant notoriety to these thoroughly respectable young women saved this scoundrel from a horsewhipping at the hands of their indignant male relatives.

From White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor by Louis Albert Banks

At the Four Courts, Dublin, I saw a waiter who witnessed the famous horsewhipping in that city.

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Robert John Buckley

With all the inconsequence of a man in a passion, Mr. Gibson laughed out, 'What have I said about horsewhipping or poisoning?

From Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


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