riding-whips

These were kept going day and night to supply the German army; and it was strange to see with what zeal Frenchmen toiled to fill the stomachs of their inveterate enemies, and with what alacrity the mayor and other. officials filled requisitions for wine, cheese, suits of livery, riding-whips, and even squab pigeons.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

In a moment the two lads, fashionably but plainly dressed, came into the room, booted, spurred, and gloved, and flourishing their riding-whips.

The Commission in Lunacy 2007

In a moment the two lads, fashionably but plainly dressed, came into the room, booted, spurred, and gloved, and flourishing their riding-whips.

The Commission in Lunacy 2007

But when the swift Pequod, with a fresh leading wind, was herself in hot chase; how very kind of these tawny philanthropists to assist in speeding her on to her own chosen pursuit, — mere riding-whips and rowels to her, that they were.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

In most cases this lower jaw — being easily unhinged by a practised artist — is disengaged and hoisted on deck for the purpose of extracting the ivory teeth, and furnishing a supply of that hard white whalebone with which the fishermen fashion all sorts of curious articles including canes, umbrellasticks, and handles to riding-whips.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

As for us, we went and knocked them down with our riding-whips, and carried away specimens in our hats; but the survivors took no manner of notice of us, and in about ten minutes they left the trees mere skeletons, leafless and stripped of their bark, and moved across the field in a dense mass towards some fruit-trees a little way off.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

There are also riding-whips and spurs, which may be considered as _implying_ the possession of quadrupedal property.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841 Various

Although I rather weakened my cause, it was most natural that, directly I was released, I should fly at the varlet who had caused me this trouble; and I did so, using my bell most effectually, and aided, when my party returned, by their riding-whips.

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole

Some riding-whips hung on a rack on the wall, side by side with a few strange sketches in oil-colours of Jane's favourite hunters, painted by herself.

Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

Cossacks and the riding-whips with which Junker officers slash German privates, and the forty tolerated homosexual brothels of Berlin, and all the other psychopathic symptoms of overfeeding and inculcated insolence and sham virility in their proper place, which I take to be the dustbin.

New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Various