horsewhip

• “In my confused state, I moved out but not fast enough as he (the cold looking brother of my boss) approached me with horsewhip!”

  Before I lost her

• “Now, if the Democrats had said, "Republicans take Medicare out behind the Cannon Office Building and horsewhip it," that's a different story.”

  The Huffington Post: Politifact Has Decided That A Totally True Thing Is The "Lie Of The Year," For Some Reason

• “In the 1930s, when Fry was around 9 or 10, he said his father dragged him to the barn and started beating him with a horsewhip for no apparent reason.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Iowa: The Harvard of Coaching

• “This was the woman who, at her divorce trial four years before, had publicly admitted to using a horsewhip on her wealthy elderly husband during lovemaking.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'Girl of Murder City'

• “As a side note though, considering that that lady was a military brat (and I mean no offense by this), I would've loved to know what she said/did when she jumped out of her car and grabbed the aides 'horsewhip.”

  WE ARE NOT HAPPY

• “Lucky won't even speak to me, Frederick's standing over me with a horsewhip, and Phenny can't stop sniggering.”

  Oh, the Agony...

• “There, too, she had first tasted the back of a hand in anger, the sting of a horsewhip, bone-deep fear and, finally, an unthinkable act of self defense.”

  Fictionaut: Without A Trace

• “The Klan, it seemed, still had an ill-deserved reputation for chivalry in some circles left over from the period in the 1920s when it would horsewhip wayward husbands.”

  The Huffington Post: Leonard Zeskind: Haley Barbour Has No Excuse

• “It had been his bad luck that where an ordinary wife would have treated his insults with icy disdain, or at most urged her husband to call on the cad with a horsewhip, my eccentric lady had nursed her vengeance for years before ruin - ing him with a stratagem so dangerous (never mind its warped lunacy) that my blood still runs cold to think of it, twenty years on.”

  Fictionaut: Watershed

• “Keeping himself in check -- I could see his shoulders rise toward his neck -- Figland grasped the fishing rod like a horsewhip.”

  Fictionaut: Beard

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