whip-report

Updated: May 25, 2025

As he whirled us, with a whip-report like a pistol-shot, into the train of traffic in the middle of the street, we felt that we were indeed in the city of appearances; and I put down in my mind, not having my note-book, that Paris lives up to its photographs. "We mustn't forget our serious object, dear," said momma, as we rolled over the cobblestones "our literary object.

Sara Jeannette Duncan - A Voyage of Consolation: (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An: American girl in London')