Example Sentences

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You must wait till we have whopped the French and gone back to England, and got our new uniforms served out, and burnt all our rags.

From !Tention A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War by Sheldon, Charles Mills

I think you might have whopped Jack when he came out from his interview with the Dorkings," Kew said: "the poor devil was so bewildered and weak, that Alfred might have thrashed him.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace