A very curious whipping custom prevails at Leicester, known by the name of "Whipping Toms," on the afternoon of Shrove Tuesday.
I'd get the whipping of my life, and do extra chores until I was seventy, but it was better than starving to death after the apartment's pantry ran out.
Sealing them was a dirty trick -- it mean a boy would have to go home not knowing whether to expect a whippingor an extra slice of pie, and the fellows were as nervous as long-tailed cats in a rocking-chair factory when class let out.
When prosecuted for a crime, the Koravan invokes his favourite deity to let him off with a whipping in the words 'If the punishment of whipping be inflicted I shall adore the goddess.
The operation is accompanied by whipping and even tortures.
He also describes the whipping of a blinded bear, a favourite variation of bear-baiting.
Pushing straight past the lake, through almost impenetrable thickets of whippingwillows that fight like live things to guard from vandal footsteps what lies beyond, the journey reaches its climax in Avalanche Basin.
This was thought the more necessary, as no party of whites had visited the village since a number of the Konzas had received a whipping at Isle au Vache, and it was a matter of doubt, whether the party would meet a friendly reception.
We have heard of your tying up and whippingindividuals of several nations, as you ascended this river.
I will see if a good whippingbring not down your ill-beseen spirits, mistress!
And I will not give thee an husband; thou shalt go back to thy father and thy mother, with the best whipping that ever I gave maid.
All took tearful farewells of poor Elaine, who dolefully expressed her fear of another whipping when she reached home; and so she passed out of their life.
She was not to be daunted, however, and after whipping her tail and peering in for a moment, hopped bravely down again.
I had seen enough, however, and whipping up Billy was out of those weeds in a hurry.
Springer likewise lost little time in once more applying himself to the task of whipping the pool at the mouth of the brook.
Straight at the angler the thing came, striking him in the face and whipping its cold, clammy folds around his neck.
These reflections reminded him of the heartiness of hiswhipping of that poor old tumbled signpost Shrapnel, in the name of outraged womankind.
Beauchamp--in what land, he would have phrased it, of whirlwinds catching the wits, and whipping the passions?
I was all excitement and began whipping vigorously where it rose.
Madge, in his place, would have been whipping the stream, with defiance and determination, an hour after her arrival.
My friend was no novice; I found him whipping the stream from bank to bank, and his creel testified to his success.
I think I see the end of one whipping about in our prop-wash.
Even with the left outboard engine running full blast, the Messerschmitt One-Ten became logy in the air, and it was all Dave could do to keep it on an even keel, and stop it from whipping over and down into a spin.
Well, he strikes with it by whipping it up over his back.
The "limber pine" it is called, from the toughness of its fibre, which alone enables its long limbs to sustain the whipping they get.
They are damaged by whipping in the wind, by the ravages of fungi and insects of many kinds.
Instead of tails they had whipping rods, which they swung with a swish, and at each flourish they gave a squeak.
She scolded him, wept and threatened to give him a good whipping at once--that is to-day, as soon as she had seen these girls.
To go about from house to house, whipping young boys--this you must agree .
There was a lively wind whipping that notoriously bad-mannered streak of water known as the English Channel.
George afterwards got a whippingfor his folly, as he richly deserved.
If the instructer did not catch you and whip you, he would tell your father, and you would get a whipping then, that would make you jump higher than the scholars, I think.
And, in his mother's eyes, the one crime punishable by whippingwas to make a new suit disreputable.
I got an awful whipping when I put pussy in the well; I didn't mean to drown her, I only wanted to see her swim.
Dick's father was a powerful man, and, whipping out his revolver, shot him dead.
Shrapnel bullets werewhipping the flagstones of the Grande Place, from anti-aircraft guns.
He plunged into the thicket, whipping himself with the bending saplings in his headlong flight.
While Bob sliced the steaks from the elk hanging from pegs fastened in the mud mortar between the logs of the wall, Dud was busy whipping up a batch of biscuits.
This displeased Pantagruel, who said to them, Gentlemen, if you do not leave offwhipping these poor children, I am gone.
We ran outside and stood in the darkness, our dresses whipping around us, looking at the sky.
Whipping up the tired team with a flick of the rawhide, he angled off across the trackless prairie.
Men are generally not so patient ofwhipping as boys, and a rough satirist is seldom known to mend them.
As she scoured across the prairie, her hair whipping her shoulders and her skirts fluttering gaily, the last few clouds in the sky, white and almost empty, dispersed tearfully above the distant forks of the Vermillion.
Forgetful of danger, she was whipping the blue mare with all her strength.
