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Definition of Horsewhipped
1. horsewhip [v] - See also: horsewhip
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horsewhipped
Literary usage of Horsewhipped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Book for a Rainy Day: Or, Recollections of the Events of the Years 1766-1833 by John Thomas Smith (1861)
"... he had very nearly called him, who had horsewhipped his wife. 1791. I remember
on a midsummer morn of this year making one of a party of pleasure, ..."
2. Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reigns of the Stuarts: Including by John Heneage Jesse (1901)
"... Court of Elizabeth— His Marriage to Lady Susan Vere — The Wedding Banquet and
Mask — Montgomery's Insolence and Cowardice — He Is horsewhipped by Ramsey ..."
3. The Memories of Sir Llewelyn Turner: Memories Serious and Light of the Irish by Llewelyn Turner, J. E. Vincent (1903)
"... ends—The ill-fated Eclair— More yellow fever—Admirals Gough and Evans—A Russian
Count horsewhipped—A descendant of Nelson helped by Sir Llewelyn—Horatia ..."
4. A book for a rainy day: or, Recollections of the events of the last sixty by John Thomas Smith (1861)
"... and of his neighbour, a divine gen- tlem— man, he had very nearly called him,
who had horsewhipped his wife. 1791. I remember on a midsummer morn of ..."
5. Passages from the English Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1880)
"... once horsewhipped Paul Jones, — Jones being a poltroon. How singular it is
that the personal courage of famous warriors should be so often called in ..."
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