horsewhip
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
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Origin of horsewhip
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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
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
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
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
When her former guide & friend Johann Most made slighting remarks about Berkman, Emma horsewhipped him publicly.
From Time Magazine Archive
You informed me—which was your duty as a friend—of this curmudgeon's boast that he would have me horsewhipped if I dared venture into England.
From The Certain Hour by Cabell, James Branch
And so far as I can learn, Tim Healy has not yet been horsewhipped in Limerick.
From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John
A man is not horsewhipped simply because you wish to horsewhip him.
From The Prime Minister by Trollope, Anthony
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
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 Buckley, Robert John
A man of your physique has no occasion for fear in horsewhipping a man like Napper Tandy, and can show no courage by doing it.
From A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs by Eggleston, George Cary
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