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
In her question & answer column in the Ladies' Home Journal, she was asked why her "big, strong American sons" didn't horsewhip 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
"You ought to be horsewhipped, rather, for disturbing an ancient tomb that's been the apple of my eye ever since I was inducted to this parish!"
From News from the Duchy by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
And if I had confided in him, and he had horsewhipped Henshaw, what good could that have done?
From The Hunt Ball Mystery by Magnay, William
She wondered whether Captain Winstanley had ever been horsewhipped; whether that kind of chastisement was numbered in the sum of his experiences.
From Vixen, Volume II. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
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
He had heard about the horsewhipping; and aware of that mad passion called the Trevlyn temper, he could not do otherwise than believe it.
From Trevlyn Hold by Wood, Mrs. Henry
In any matter of horsewhipping the truth hardly ever gets itself correctly known.
From The Prime Minister by Trollope, Anthony
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 Banks, Louis Albert
