After receiving three severe whippings I gave up and never again tried for any learning, and to this day I can neither read nor write.
The Reverend states that in the community where he resided the slaves were well treated except for the whippings they received.
His master gave him five real whippings within a period of fourteen years but Uncle Samuel believes he deserved every lash administered.
When his mother got these whippings she always ran off afterwards and hid in the woods which were nearby.
Although I tried to spare the whippings and to administer them with all the moderation possible, yet the children felt the change keenly, they became discouraged and wept bitterly.
They cited the authority of the curate, of this one and that one, and even called attention to themselves, saying that if it had not been for the whippings they had received from their teachers they would never have learned anything.
Whippings are so universal that a negro that has not been whipped is talked of in all the region as a wonder.
All the slaves had their backs scarred, from the oft-repeated whippings they had received.
There can be found episodes of colonial history where the disprejudiced modern mind can perceive ample need of the sharp whippings so freely bestowed upon dull or idle scholars and slow servants.
Birch trees were plentiful in America--and whippings too.
He called these whippings trouncings, the good old English word of the Elizabethan dramatists.
The children looked frightened; and Fred, being now too old to dread any whippings on his own account, kindly undertook the instruction of his younger brothers in the art of being saucy and playing practical jokes.
Wife beating enjoined as a religious duty became so common, says Noble, that love was measured by it, "The more whippingsthe more love.
Some whippings were richly deserved by those who got them, some were not; some which were richly deserved were never given.
There was something painfully fascinating about those whippings to restless, mischievous little Tommy who had never learned the art of sitting still.
Good or bad, we got whippings with a long cowhide kept just for that.
Field hands also get whippings when they failed to pick the required three-hundred pounds of cotton daily.
It was said that those who refused to take whippings were generally negroes of African royal blood, or their descendants.
But they had to have whippings, "yas'um, good er bad we got them whippings with a long cowhide kept jest fer that.
Although they got whippings a-plenty they were never separated by sale.
Whippings were more or less frequent, according to the character of the overseer.
Whether she understood him better than the rest of us did I cannot say, but her whippings seemed to me to come very infrequently.
Whippings could not cure it, shutting me up in my room without any clothes only made the next seizure harder to resist, and moral suasion fell flat as a pancake.
A cruel, passionate man he must have been, for stories presently crept about the county of the whippings that kept his boys obedient to him.
There had been a third boy, the first-born, whom no whippings could make obedient.
We are all schoolboys who usually suffer our whippings for things that should be overlooked; and the fact that we get off scot free when we should have our jackets tanned does not seem to make the injustice any easier to bear.
Every year, every month, and in time every week, freshwhippings followed.
The three used to talk together about such chastisement, and the little girl liked to read "stories that had whippings in them.
His nurse-maid used to invent excuses for beating his nates with a long lead-pencil when he was aged about 7, and he saw occasional whippings with clothes removed in the family nursery.
From the first he has loved to invent stories in which whippingswere the climax, and at 13 such stories produced the first spontaneous emission.
He considers that the pleasure of whippings should always be shared by the person whipped, and he is somewhat concerned to find that he has an increasing inclination to imagine an element of cruelty in the whipping.
Therefore poor Toby was obliged to bear his troubles and his whippings as best he might, with only the thought to cheer him of the time when he could leave them all by running away.
Whippings was few and nobody get the whip 'less he need it bad.
The Mistress didn't know I knows her secret, and I'm fixing to even up for some of them whippings she put off on me.
Maybe the old Master was sickened of whippings from the stories the slaves told about the plantation that joined ours on the north.
I never tried it, maybe, because mostly they was caught by patrollers and fetched back for a flogging--and I had whippings enough already!
It was probably also used in putting whippings or seizings on any other implements.
The whippings of sinew braid on the handle are to give a firm grip for the hands.
We were told that if we had not earned the whippings yet, we would earn them soon, please God.
Then we got whippings of which the teacher said: "You surely know yourself what they are for.
And Boaz gave us all the whippings we ought to have had from our friends and relatives.
All the whippings of his life had never stung him so deeply as George's quiet words.
You are going to say that there will be no more whippings in this camp.
He earned terrible whippings by releasing animals caught in traps.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whippings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
