horsewhip
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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
Millions of readers do, and they utter it with a masochistic tremolo last in fashion when lovestruck ladies knelt before candlelit glossies of Rudolph Valentino carrying a horsewhip.
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 James Branch Cabell
He had sunk two thousand dollars in the "Express" and saved the editor from being horsewhipped and jailed for libel!
From The Bell-Ringer of Angel's by Bret Harte
The editor himself doesn't sit around waiting to be horsewhipped.
From The Tyranny of Weakness by Paul Stahr
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
I did not say, afterwards, that I had forgotten all about the horsewhipping, and that the marks of the pad had worn out.
From Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by John Ashton
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 George Cary Eggleston
She never paid the sixpence, though she lost, but contented herself by abusing Mary all day, and said I was a poor-spirited sneak for not instantly horsewhipping Mr. P. A pretty joke, indeed!
From The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond by William Makepeace Thackeray
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