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Examples
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Likewise she looked from brown hand to white -- the one, work-worn and hardened by whip-handle and paddle, the other as guiltless of toil and soft as a newborn babe's.
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On the instant he leaped for the floor, received a blow on the nose from the heavy whip-handle, and had a blank cartridge fired straight into his nostril.
CHAPTER XXXIII 2010
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We knew by experience that a solid whip-handle did not last very long.
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I hit him over the nose with the whip-handle, and tried to take the pemmican from him, but it was not so easy.
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I had a glimpse of Hanssen, who was busy making a whip-handle, as I passed; the soles of his feet were then very prominent.
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Hanssen, who was busy making a whip-handle, as I passed; the soles of his feet were then very prominent.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003
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I hit him over the nose with the whip-handle, and tried to take the pemmican from him, but it was not so easy.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003
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We knew by experience that a solid whip-handle did not last very long.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003
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He screamed in agony, sat up, twined his fingers in the complexity of lace at her throat, and clubbed her twice with the loaded whip-handle.
More Than Human Sturgeon, Theodore, 1918-1985 1953
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And perhaps another thing was broken as the whip-handle crushed the consciousness from the girl.
More Than Human Sturgeon, Theodore, 1918-1985 1953
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