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Examples
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'We will settle it now!' and, jumping on the tongue of his wagon, he struck father a hard blow over the head with his heavy whip-stock.
Ten American Girls From History Kate Dickinson Sweetser
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Beggars fear him more than the justice, and as much as the whip-stock, whom he delivers over to his subordinate magistrates, the bridewell-man, and the beadle.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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His master had absolute control of his life and actions, and sometimes would enforce it with the whip-stock.
Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston
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At that moment a whip-stock hammered at the cabin-door, and a second later Trooper Anderton entered.
A Mating in the Wilds Ottwell Binns
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Carbine had another name, "Old Jack," given him because of his laziness, and a whip-stock, had to be used occasionally to keep him up to the mark.
The Portland Peerage Romance Charles J. Archard
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Each time the whip-stock descended on Reed's head it cut deep gashes.
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As Snyder uttered these words, he struck Reed a blow on the head with the butt-end of his heavy whip-stock.
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While halting on the march it was Rader's amusement, especially when some outsider was passing by, to set his whip-stock as a prop under it, go through the motions of grinding, and rattle off the music of a hand-organ with his mouth until chased away by his victim.
The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson Edward A. Moore
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During the excitement Snyder made use of very bad language, and was beating his cattle over the head with his whip-stock.
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"Yonder's the store," presently added Galusha, pointing with his two feet of whip-stock to a place placarded with patent-medicine advertisements, and apparently the rendezvous for all the tobacco-chewers of the neighborhood.
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