horsewhipping

• “Why, now I bethink me, he _was_ present," replied Blaize, involuntarily putting his hand to his shoulder, as he recalled the horsewhipping he had received on that occasion.”

  Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire

• “Do ascertain the truth before you do anything violent, such as horsewhipping or poisoning. ”

  Wives and Daughters

• “At others he gave them “a good horsewhipping,” in the hope of deflecting pressures to fire them.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Return

• “Ugadale Arms Hotel unattractive horsewhipping episode”

  The Cards

• “Mr. Pearson was not quite as lucky two years later, when — possibly emboldened by his success with McAlister against Loughnan, and the abrupt and helpful findings of Mr. Justice à Beckett — our great great grandfather was convicted of assault in an ugly horsewhipping episode.”

  Archive 2009-05-01

• “William Pearson, unattractive horsewhipping episode”

  Archive 2009-05-01

• “We are tired of horsewhipping public figures over their sex lives.”

  Susie Bright: Better Than a Texas Whuppin'

• “He tells of the editor of the Herald, James Gordon Bennett, once getting caned so badly that he took to keeping a set of loaded pistols in his office, and of Evening Post editor William Cullen Bryant horsewhipping William Leete Stone, of the Commercial Advertiser, who fought back with a cane that concealed a steel sword.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Extra, Extra! Lunar Man-Bats

• “She never paid the sixpence, though she lost, but contented herself by abusing Mary all day, and said I was a poor-spirited sneak for not instantly horsewhipping Mr. P.”

  The Great Hoggarty Diamond

• “He implored me to soil his letter in an unspeakable manner, to chastise him as he richly deserves, to bestride and ride him, to give him a most vicious horsewhipping.”

  Ulysses

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