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Examples
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Oh, Miss West, father was going to whip Carl yesterday – Carl had been naughty – and father couldn't do it because you see he had no practice in whipping.
Rainbow Valley Lucy Maud 1919
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I give them also for the reason that Barbour afterwards wrote a letter to Turner, which the latter published, referring to the affair, in which he boasted of having given me a "whipping."
Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State Stephen Johnson Field 1857
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Pakistan has been creeping toward Islamic law since the days of Gen. Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, who seized power in 1977 and during his 11-year rule introduced prohibitions on public drinking of alcohol and enforced Islamic punishments such as whipping.
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Then he went on: "I think they gave up the notion of whipping.
The Gentleman from Indiana Booth Tarkington 1907
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