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He once said: "Private detectives as a class are the biggest lot of blackmailing thieves that ever went unwhipped of justice."

From Time Magazine Archive

To Attorney General Herbert Brownell, it seems absurd and dangerous to let spies "go unwhipped of justice" behind that shield.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the black was a new bear in the valley—and he was not only that: he was a powerful bear, and unwhipped; and he had overlorded a range of his own.

From The Grizzly King by Curwood, James Oliver

Even if the prosecutor intended to deal in counterfeit money, that is no reason why the appellant should go unwhipped of justice.

From True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office by Train, Arthur Cheney

In most cases the perpetrators go unwhipped of justice.

From Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century by Washington, Booker T.