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Updated: June 26, 2025
He collected together all his boyish penates his gun, his sword, his fishing-rods, and his riding-whips, and arranged them about the walls.
We dashed at the brutes with our riding-whips, which we brought into active play. Some well-aimed lashes on their backs made the dingoes turn tail and retreat to a safe distance, where they stood watching the operation of cutting up one of the animals.
Jimbo's father was a retired Colonel, who had married late in life, and now lived all the year round in the country; and Jimbo was the youngest child but one. The Colonel, lean in body as he was sincere in mind, an excellent soldier but a poor diplomatist, loved dogs, horses, guns and riding-whips. He also really understood them.
It was decided to attack them only with riding-whips, so as to avoid drawing first blood. But when a party of us arrived, we could not get into their retreat, as they had barricaded themselves in. So marines and sailors were requisitioned with axes; after a lot of exhausting work it was discovered that the birds had flown.
Carroll Shannon, with his straps, and his hickories, and his riding-whips, and I hope he will soon get a woman on whom he can use them all." "Oh, Jane! Jane!" cried the other, "why will you worry those who love you? Why will you try them so?" The young woman's face fell at that, and she seemed to be very contrite.
I had heard them, alone at the bedside, striking their boots with their riding-whips, and loitering up and down. "'At last she is dead? said the elder, when I went in. "'She is dead, said I. "'I congratulate you, my brother, were his words as he turned round. "He had before offered me money, which I had postponed taking. He now gave me a rouleau of gold.
Greatcoats, riding-whips, bridles, top-boots, spurs, and such gear, were strewn about on all sides, and formed, with some huge stags' antlers, and a few portraits of dogs and horses, its principal embellishments. 'Here! Thou'st no delight in following the hounds as an Englishwoman should have, said the gentleman. 'See to this here. That'll please thee perhaps.
But when the swift Pequod, with a fresh leading wind, was herself in hot chase; how very kind of these tawny philanthropists to assist in speeding her on to her own chosen pursuit, mere riding-whips and rowels to her, that they were.
The panels are beaten by loaded riding-whips, and a man's voice cries, "Anne Morris, fetch us our cousin's will, or we'll break into the house and take it." The woman clutches the infant to her breast, but makes no answer.
But when the swift Pequod, with a fresh leading wind, was herself in hot chase; how very kind of these tawny philanthropists to assist in speeding her on to her own chosen pursuit, mere riding-whips and rowels to her, that they were.
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