horsewhip
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
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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
Every year thousands of Mongols visit a shrine in the Ordos region where Genghis is said to have dropped a horsewhip during his final campaign and where he reportedly wanted to be buried.
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 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 it’s a fact that he had been kicked, horsewhipped, imprisoned, and hounded with ignominy out of pretty well every place between Ceylon and Shanghai, for a professional blackmailer.
From Within the Tides by Conrad, Joseph
For my part, I am peaceable, and much attached to life, and should esteem it exceedingly disagreeable to be either shot, or horsewhipped.
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various
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
By Janders!" said the colonel with an open smile; "I believe you'd just as soon tackle a banker as to eat your dinner; and I'd about as soon take a horsewhipping.
From The Real Man by Lynde, Francis
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 Thackeray, William Makepeace
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
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