Sentence examples for a whipping of from inspiring English sources

(A fifteen-year-old girl captured while heading for Dunmore's regiment was greeted by her master with a whipping of eighty lashes, after which he poured hot embers into her wounds).

A convict is not to be scourged until the flesh fall from his body, and he die under the lash, though he may have committed a hundred offenses, for each of which, separately, a whipping of 20 stripes might be inflicted.

Disregarding the deal made by Stanley, whom he controls, he arranges a lethal whipping of the jailed Mikey.

The party of no seems to feel that Speaker Pelosi is a whipping girl of sorts.

And it is brilliant in its own right: a shooting star as a "whip of stars".

The child has found a whip of kelp and slaps at the waves.

"They gave us food, but every night beat us with a whip of animal skin.

That adds up to a WHIP of 0.667, which believe it or not, is above his regular season whip.

In 141 postseason innings, Rivera has a laughably low 0.70 E.R.A., a WHIP of 0.76 and 42 saves.

Meanwhile, the Tory leadership suffered three more resignations over Iraq after the departure as a whip of John Randall last week.

With a whip of his long pointed tail he brought the castle roof down, throwing all those sinners to hell.