5392 examples of whips in sentences

I saw some of their runners dressed in fearful costumes scaring the people and whipping them with long whips.

At last, about ten o'clock, we began to hear in the distance the loud and sharp reports of the big bull-whips, which were handled with great dexterity by the teamsters, and cracked like rifle shots.

Whereupon Mr. TRACEY CLEWS dexterously whips off his brush of red hair, and stands revealed as Mr. BLADAMS.

Tom Moody rode up presently, and he and his pack drew off into a sheltered corner of the lawn, where the dogs rolled on the grass, and played or growled angrily at one another, ever and anon breaking out into furious fights, speedily to be quelled by Tom's voice, unmatched at rating, or the snaky thongs of the whips.

Tom blows his horn and trots off, followed by the pack, by the whips, by the young gents from Winchester, by the farmers of the neighbourhood, by the labourers of the parish on foot, with whom the day is a great holiday; Sir Huddlestone bringing up the rear with Colonel Crawley; and the whole train of hounds and horsemen disappears down the avenue, leaving little Rawdon alone on the doorsteps, wondering and happy.

Some of his clothes, papers, handkerchiefs, whips and caps, fishing-rods and sporting gear, were still there.

" The cymbals struck up, the cavalcade, headed by ragamuffin lictors with whips, went swaying past the gate.

As the komatik went careering over the snow, the dogs yelping and straining at the harness, the men running alongside shouting Hi-hi and cracking their whips, they could still see, over their shoulders, the wolves following lightly close behind; but when they rushed breathless into their houses, and grabbed their guns, and ran back on the trail, there was nothing to be seen.

But I am opposed to fostering in the rider lessons of cruelty, by arming him with whips and spurs.

Dicky says it's the War whips you up and makes it all the easier.

The inhabitants of Asia Minor soon found that in yielding to him they had exchanged whips for scorpions.

Three days had passed since the opening of the case (for actors engaged at a hundred a day for the run of the piece do not crack whips behind experts engaged at ten or twenty a day; the pace had therefore been dignified), and England wanted a fillip.

There is no question but our Poet drew the Image in what follows from that in Virgil's sixth Book, where Æneas and the Sibyl stand before the Adamantine Gates, which are there described as shut upon the Place of Torments, and listen to the Groans, the Clank of Chains, and the Noise of Iron Whips, that were heard in those Regions of Pain and Sorrow.

They will shut me up in a stone room, dark and cold, and chain me to the wall, Nellflog me with whips, and never let me see thee more!"

As we passed it, some five or six boys from 12 to 15 years of age, came out, some of them cracking whips, followed by two colored boys crying.

They are emphatically "in prison," restrained by chains, goaded with whips, tasked, and under keepers.

Ignorance of northern citizens respecting slavery; Betting upon crops; Extent and cruelty of the punishment of slaves; Slaveholders excuse their cruelties by the example of Preachers, and professors of religion, and Northern citizens; Novel torture, eulogized by a professor of religion; Whips as common as the plough; Ladies use cowhides, with shovel and tongs.

"Dealing in slaves has become a large business; establishments are made in several places in Maryland and Virginia, at which they are sold like cattle; these places of deposit are strongly built, and well supplied with thumb-screws and gags, and ornamented with cow-skins and other whips oftentimes bloody.

They would threaten him and lash at him with cart whips.

R84125, 8Oct51, Maurice Dunlap (A) DUNN, CLARA WHIPS SEE Whips, Clara E. DUNSANY, EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT, 18th baron.

R84125, 8Oct51, Maurice Dunlap (A) DUNN, CLARA WHIPS SEE Whips, Clara E. DUNSANY, EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT, 18th baron.

Dance-steps and directions by Clara E. Whips.

R90806, 15Feb52, Clara Whips Dunn (A) & George Murray Brown (A) PIRENNE, HENRI. Medieval cities; translated from the French by Frank D. Halsey.

WHIPS, CLARA ELIZABETH.

" Mr. Gantling was asked to relate some incidents that he could remember of the lives of slaves, and he continued: "Well the horn would blow every morning for you to git up and go right to work; when the sun ris' if you were not in the field working, you would be whipped with whips and leather strops.

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