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More "Whacking" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his hourly rounds, flashing his electric pocket lamp before him, he is ready with a cheery "Post all correct, sir!" He whistles or sings to himself until, at last, he hears the platoon sergeant waking the next relief by whacking the soles of their boots ...
— Kitchener's Mob - Adventures of an American in the British Army • James Norman Hall
... a slip in her hand? Chapped: washingsoda. And a pound and a half of Denny's sausages. His eyes rested on her vigorous hips. Woods his name is. Wonder what he does. Wife is oldish. New blood. No followers allowed. Strong pair of arms. Whacking a carpet on the clothesline. She does whack it, by George. The way her crooked skirt swings ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... now famous quartette—Claud, Bill, Paddy, and Sandy. They were still in their rough bush-whacking clothes, while their eyes told the tale of a ...
— The Kangaroo Marines • R. W. Campbell
... lay upon the hall floor, in the centre of an interested group. He paused to glance up at his sister, where she had stopped upon the landing. "You act as if you didn't want to see what's in it," he remonstrated, whacking ...
— The Second Violin • Grace S. Richmond
... cryptic utterance. We all tried it on varying notes of exultation. It put zest into what otherwise would have been a dragging day. By tea-time our legs were sore with whacking. ...
— Explorers of the Dawn • Mazo de la Roche
... me!—they have not got a mile when they come to a great wall and find they must walk back again. They are squabbling with the post-boy at Barnet (the first stage on the Gretna Road, I mean), and, behold, perhaps Strephon has not got any money, or here is papa with a whacking horsewhip, who takes Miss back again, and locks her up crying in the schoolroom. The parting is heart-breaking; but, when she has married the banker and had eight children, and he has become, it may be, a prosperous barrister,—it may be, a seedy raff who has gone ...
— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray
... well; but if you don't take to your heels, you'll have all the old women in the village a whacking on you, that's all I have to say about it. You'd better port your helm and about ...
— Varney the Vampire - Or the Feast of Blood • Thomas Preskett Prest
... the evidence of that letter which he had shoved deep down into his pocket. He had reminded her of it by whacking his ...
— Joan of Arc of the North Woods • Holman Day
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