Example Sentences

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Some young whipper snapper who employed a handful of men had undertaken to show him where he, Anthony Cardew, was a clog in the wheel of progress.

From A Poor Wise Man by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

But both the common whipper and the common hangman were officers of the corporation, not of the Crown, and they declined officiating at the illumination.

From Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

The quondam whipper appeared at a stable-door with a horse-brush in his hand.

From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 by Various

The ballet of the whipper of late dayes here in England, was but a scoffe in comparison of him.

From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Gosse, Edmund

It is the whipper who is whipped and the tyrant who is undone.--Emerson.

From The Centralia Conspiracy by Chaplin, Ralph