Example Sentences

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"A huntsman" is a hunt servant who "hunts hounds"; "whippers-in" are servants who keep hounds in place; "the M. F. H."

From Time Magazine Archive

Mercy is a word totally unknown to a great proportion of whippers-in, and even to many who call themselves gentlemen.

From The Dog by Youatt, William

So near was the gorgeous cavalcade—the grand falconer, whippers-in, and the bearers of hooded birds mingling with the courtiers immediately behind the king—the escaped prisoner and the jestress could hear the panting of horses.

From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart

Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers-in, by ballet-dancers; this made a part of his bourgeois popularity.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

Satan was in among and had passed the other horses in less than five minutes, and was so close on the hounds that the whippers-in gave a cry of warning.

From Van Bibber and Others by Davis, Richard Harding