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- adjective Archaic spelling of
unwhipped .
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Examples
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In July, the cry of "a lost child" aroused the settlement to a search for that "unwhipt rascal,"
The Women Who Came in the Mayflower Annie Russell Marble
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With the keenest of sleuths in our detective departments of the North, and with courts and juries of unimpeachable integrity, crime stalks boldly in its greatest cities, and arrogant corruption goes unwhipt of justice.
Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp
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The slave-trade exists here in all its HORRORS, and unwhipt of all its crimes.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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The slave-trade exists here in all its HORRORS, and unwhipt of all its crimes.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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As it is well known that many men, outside prison camps can curse and go unwhipt of justice, I here propose to your Body, now in session, that you shall give me liberty to memorialize our law makers at their next meeting, and I will call the State's attention to this outrageous punishment.
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The best known was a copy of verses, chiefly, if not exclusively by Lady Mary, in which Pope is brutally taunted with the personal deformities of his "wretched little carcass," which, it seems, are the only cause of his being "unwhipt, unblanketed, unkicked."
Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series Leslie Stephen 1868
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The idea has been that it would be magnanimous to forgive, and let traitors go unwhipt of justice.
Three Discourses 1865
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Untold millions of property have been wantonly destroyed by their malice, or swelled the coffers of the pampered villains, who, unwhipt of justice, have been openly rewarded and promoted for their crimes.
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If evil-doers are to go unwhipt of justice how long shall this colony endure.
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Thou unwhipt rascal, thou 'rt enough to corrupt a whole colony of boys.
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