horse-whip

Like Knight, Poor was a divorce case in which the court rejected the wife's claim of extreme cruelty (based on, among other offenses, her husband's "beat [ing] her cruelly with a horse-whip [and] imprison [ing] her in the cellar") .28 Instead, the opinion notes that the wife was "of a high, bold, masculine spirit; ... and not always ready to submit, even to the legitimate authority of her husband."

'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S. 2008

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It would give me a world of satisfaction to horse-whip you, Virgil.

CNN Transcript May 11, 2008 2008

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It would give me a world of satisfaction to horse-whip you, Virgil.

CNN Transcript May 2, 2008 2008

I'd horse-whip these two and ask them didn't YOUR parents treat you better than this?

"The 'Ashley Treatment,' Towards a Better Quality of Life for 'Pillow Angels.'" Ann Althouse 2007

No one was excited even when a fracas on the steps of a leading hotel in Piccadilly, in which he tried to horse-whip a prominent German musician upon some personal account, delayed his promised ascent.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

Travers held his breath, expecing a horse-whip to be produced at any moment.

Marina Lewycka: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Michael Allen 2005

The other affected to treat him with contempt, and mistaking his forbearance for want of courage, threatened to horse-whip him into good manners.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

‘If I were a theatrical ass,’ he thought, ‘I suppose I should be taking a horse-whip or a pistol or something!’

In Chancery 2004

The first thing that his reverence did, on being placed on his legs, was to make for a horse-whip, which stood in one corner of the room, but I guessing how he meant to use it, sprang up from the floor, and before he could make a cut at me, ran out of the room, and hasted home.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

By this time the Baron, with the help of Mr. Saunderson, had indued a pair of jack-boots of large dimensions, and now invited our hero to follow him as he stalked clattering down the ample stair-case, tapping each huge balustrade as he passed with the butt of his massive horse-whip, and humming, with the air of a chasseur of Louis Quatorze, —

Waverley 2004