whipster

• “Because certain mighty men of old could make heroical statues and plays, must we not be told that there is no other beauty but classical beauty? — must not every little whipster of a French poet chalk you out plays,”

  The Paris Sketch Book

• “A dwarf and a whipster he might be among the great darkies around her — for he had only six feet and one inch of stature, and forty-two inches round the chest — but, to her fine taste, tone and quality more than covered defect of quantity.”

  Springhaven

• “Dean Bolton [15] paid him the twenty pounds; and for the rest, he may kiss — And that you may ask him, because I am in pain about it, that Dean Bolton is such a whipster.”

  The Journal to Stella

• “That's what a contrary, headstrong, uncontrollable whipster like you would do, if you had your own way.”

  Duty, and other Irish Comedies

• “I have often longed to see one of those refiners in discipline himself at the cart's tail, with just such a convenient spot laid bare to the tender mercies of the whipster.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864

• “The curious ease with which, nowadays, every puny whipster gets the sword of Sir Walter has already been remarked.”

  My Contemporaries In Fiction

• “For to say something is what every puny whipster can do.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 12, 1890

• “No! Get some whipster that will suit his reverence.”

  My New Curate

• “And this new cojutor with his gran 'accent, which no one can understand, and his gran' furniture, and his whipster of a servant, begor, no one can stand him.”

  My New Curate

• “The dirty whipster; an 'I saw the chops and the steaks goin' in her door, where a fryin'-pan was never known to sing before.”

  My New Curate

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