"Whip hand" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fact, I am afraid he will fight it. But he can do nothing, absolutely nothing," went on Amos Bangs. "I hold the whip hand—and I shall ...
— Randy of the River - The Adventures of a Young Deckhand • Horatio Alger Jr.
... to go forward and speak to him, but stopped immediately after. Long years of foreign travel and passing through dangerous scenes had made me careful. I knew not how I should be received, and I must not give Wilfred the whip hand of me. No, I would find out what had happened at home during the intervening years. I would go on to the village green, and there, perchance, I should see those who knew me in the past, and should give them a chance of ...
— Roger Trewinion • Joseph Hocking
... replied Wally, glad to have recovered the whip hand. "It's this way. Every new kid has to sing in his house ...
— The Cock-House at Fellsgarth • Talbot Baines Reed
... Emmeline, continuing her thoughts aloud, as was her disconcerting habit, "Kathleen has money, and that gives a wife a whip hand. I begged her only yesterday to stand up for herself. Those little fair women are so apt to be bullied. I knew a case. Well, mind, we'll hope it mayn't come to that! If she is sensible and doesn't expect too much, ...
— The Lady of the Basement Flat • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... seethed in Sheila Macklin's brain. She must keep cool! She must hold herself down, keep control of her own mind, and keep the whip hand of this girl ...
— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper |
