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More "Whip hand" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he might, that he absolutely held the whip hand of the Jannati Shahr people. Elation shone in his face and in the faces of all. The problem now had simplified itself to just this: What weight of jewels and of gold could Nissr, by jettisoning ...
— The Flying Legion • George Allan England
... 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
... 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
... almost distracted, made an angry gesture with his whip hand. Bending still further forward, at the risk of falling out, ...
— Abbe Mouret's Transgression - La Faute De L'abbe Mouret • Emile Zola
... don't think you will," he said pleasantly. "I've the whip hand now, you know. If you decline, I shall feel called upon to ...
— The Boy Allies with Uncle Sams Cruisers • Ensign Robert L. Drake
... doctor, is wuss than downright pain, by a long way. Hows'ever, I s'pose I must obey orders—anyhow you've got the whip hand o' me just now. Well, as I was sayin', the yarn ain't a long 'un. I sailed from the port o' Lun'on in a tea-clipper, of which I was the cook; got out to Hong-Kong all right, shipped a cargo, and off again for old England. ...
— The Battery and the Boiler - Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables • R.M. Ballantyne
... fool to marry her. I said so at the time. If he hadn't, he'd have had the whip hand over her. He's yaller, that's ...
— The Trembling of a Leaf - Little Stories of the South Sea Islands • William Somerset Maugham
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