And the stockwhips woke the echoes, and they fiercely answered back ❋ Blue Tyson (2010)
All I do is sit at home with the cows and the puppies naked in my garden (me, not them – but them too, I expect), crack a few stockwhips occasionally to relieve tension and dress up in flibbertigibbety costumes with tiaras and animal tails and fuck-me shoes when the mood strikes me. ❋ Bluemeany (2005)
All the men were armed with stockwhips, the handles of which are eighteen inches long, and the lash nine feet, and they move about among the ranks, bringing refractory animals back into order, while the dogs, the light cavalry of the regiment, preserved discipline in the wings. ❋ Unknown (2003)
With a running fire of stockwhips and a fiery run of hoofs; ❋ Desmond Byrne (N/A)
About three in the afternoon, a lowing of cattle and cracking of stockwhips announced the arrival of Macartney's mob, and the beasts, wild with thirst, for the way had been long and hot, and the waters were dried up for miles back, rushed tumultously down into the waterhole, trampling one another in their eagerness to get to the water. ❋ Mary Gaunt (N/A)
Mile Point, Flathouse, Nine Mile Stone follow the footpeople with knotty sticks, hayforks, salmongaffs, lassos, flockmasters with stockwhips, bearbaiters with tomtoms, toreadors with bullswords, greynegroes waving torches. ❋ James Joyce (1911)
Considine produced two stockwhips, and gave one to ❋ Unknown (1902)
And to hear the stockwhips rattle just like rifles in the trees! ❋ Henry Lawson (1894)
A quarter of an hour later they came across a small mob of cows and calves, which as the stockwhips cracked, trotted off in front, to be joined by several more, and in a short time the mob had increased to five hundred head, and Trouton and ❋ Louis Becke (1884)
With a running fire of stockwhips and a fiery run of hoofs, ❋ Adam Lindsay Gordon (1851)
In Aus there's been a similar thing but involving stockwhips (truly) Two people - quite possibly ones with, er, 'issues' - put on oilskins and fencing masks and whip each other. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In Aus there's been a similar thing but involving stockwhips (truly) ❋ Unknown (2009)
"Each of us is to take a revolver," Jim said; "there are five altogether, and the men who haven't got them will have to use their stockwhips as signals if they find anything. ❋ Unknown (1911)
