If I was a farmer now, I'd take a horsewhip, I would, and I'd send those gentry double quick back to Whitechapel.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black
"To be sure, I heard of it; and I heard how your own hands tore it down, and riding with it into the midst of them at Kiltimmon market, you said, 'I 'll give five hundred pounds to him who shows me who did this, and I 'll forfeit five hundred more if I do not horsewhip the coward from the county.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
Many and many a time he's slept up in the mill loft after one of his harum-scarum tricks, and many's the time I've faced the old squire when he's come after him with a horsewhip."
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice