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Usage examples of horsewhip.

But Lopez who had, as the reader may remember, made some threat about a horsewhip, had come to a resolution of a very different nature.

The boy-wonder physician turned to Junior again and assumed an expression of compassion so inauthentic that if he'd been playing a doctor on even the cheesiest daytime soap opera, he'd have been stripped of his actor's-union card, fired, and possibly horsewhipped on a live television special.

To me, that seemed like a man, who has received a cudgeling, rejoicing that he had not been horsewhipped as well.

The assault party, twelve strong, was armed with cricket bats and sandbags, but Doman carried a horsewhip that he intended to apply to Miss Nell Kinross’.

They did actually pause for a moment, weapons poised, and Reginald Hector (a more seasoned hand than I at giving orders) bellowed at them from the doorway to fall back before he horsewhipped the lot of them.

Bennett was horsewhipped in the street by that politician, what’s his name?

Last week a male relative of the now former fiancée accosted Jamie in front of the Union Club and horsewhipped him.

Foster argued vehemently that Spencer was getting off much too lightly and deserved to be horsewhipped, at least verbally if not physically!

Any Spanish woman daring to expose her flesh would have been horsewhipped, but mulattas were exempt property, not people.

The failure of my first large criminal scheme, and with it my dream of being a hidalgo who could at least stand in the same room with Eléna without being horsewhipped, had left me pensive.

Their muscles glistened with sweat as they heaved, in a steady rhythm, bales of woolen cloth, crates of candles, every variety of liquor, Bibles, navigators’ instruments, horsewhips, and toothbrushes, over the docks to waiting horse-drawn carts, bound for Broadway.

Only Southerners have taken horsewhips and pistols to editors about the treatment or maltreatment of their manuscript.

He had apparently been out riding because he was wearing gray riding breeches, a red, sleeveless doublet over a matching linen shirt, knee-high, ebony riding boots with wickedly sharp rowels, and he carried a horsewhip.

Fellow deserves to be horsewhipped, but I daresay a damned good fright will serve the purpose, and without jeopardizing your good name or your future happiness.