stockwhips

And the stockwhips woke the echoes, and they fiercely answered back

Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010

All I do is sit at home with the cows and the puppies naked in my garden (me, not them – but them too, I expect), crack a few stockwhips occasionally to relieve tension and dress up in flibbertigibbety costumes with tiaras and animal tails and fuck-me shoes when the mood strikes me.

bluemeany Diary Entry bluemeany 2005

All the men were armed with stockwhips, the handles of which are eighteen inches long, and the lash nine feet, and they move about among the ranks, bringing refractory animals back into order, while the dogs, the light cavalry of the regiment, preserved discipline in the wings.

In Search of the Castaways 2003

With a running fire of stockwhips and a fiery run of hoofs;

Australian Writers Desmond Byrne

About three in the afternoon, a lowing of cattle and cracking of stockwhips announced the arrival of Macartney's mob, and the beasts, wild with thirst, for the way had been long and hot, and the waters were dried up for miles back, rushed tumultously down into the waterhole, trampling one another in their eagerness to get to the water.

The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas Mary Gaunt

With a running fire of stockwhips and a fiery run of hoofs;

The Sick Stockrider 1918

Mile Point, Flathouse, Nine Mile Stone follow the footpeople with knotty sticks, hayforks, salmongaffs, lassos, flockmasters with stockwhips, bearbaiters with tomtoms, toreadors with bullswords, greynegroes waving torches.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

Considine produced two stockwhips, and gave one to

Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life 1902

And the stockwhips woke the echoes, and they fiercely answered back

The Man from Snowy River 1902

And to hear the stockwhips rattle just like rifles in the trees!

In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses Henry Lawson 1894