horsewhip
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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
Groucho's flip irrelevancies foreshadowed the theater of the absurd: "I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse."
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
And if I had confided in him, and he had horsewhipped Henshaw, what good could that have done?
From The Hunt Ball Mystery by William Magnay
Then you, my gentlemen of the horse, take these two silver-gilt cups, and let not the pages be horsewhipped these three months.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Peter Anthony Motteux
They even say that he horsewhipped you——" "Pray don't overtax your powers of invention.
From Black Oxen by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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
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
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
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
