"Whip hand" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and Ichija Kumagae during the seasons of 1918 and 1919. In the early stages Murray had a decided advantage, winning from Kumagae consistently, but by close scores. Early in 1919 Kumagae unexpectedly defeated Murray at Buffalo in four sets. From that moment Kumagae held the whip hand. He defeated Murray at Niagara-on-the-Lake a week later. Murray barely nosed out the Japanese star at Cleveland in five sets after Kumagae had the match won, only to have Kumagae again defeat him in a terrific ...
— The Art of Lawn Tennis • William T. Tilden, 2D
... and bitter lesson which Calico learned, this matter of keeping one's tugs tight. Uncle Enoch had spared the whip, but in the heart of Broncho Bill, who drove the band-wagon, there was no leniency. Ready and strong was his whip hand, and he knew how to make the blood follow the lash. No effort did he waste on fat-padded flanks when he was in earnest. He cut at the ears, where the skin is tender. He could touch up the leaders as easily as he ...
— Horses Nine - Stories of Harness and Saddle • Sewell Ford
... compare the analyses with the doctor's prescriptions. The knowledge should be useful, to say the least. Siddle's reputation needn't suffer, but, unless I am greatly mistaken, you will have the whip hand ...
— The Postmaster's Daughter • Louis Tracy
... for once, beyond a doubt. He had the whip hand, and he fairly reveled in his opportunity. In his heart, he was almost thankful to Teddy for having given him ...
— The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall - Or, Great Days in School and Out • Spencer Davenport
... is undesirable for the negro. That, however, seems to me a pretty serious thing for one race to attempt to decide for another—especially when the deciding race is not deeply and sincerely interested in the uplift of the race over which it holds the whip hand. Certainly intelligent people in the South believe in industrial training for the negro, and equally certainly a negro high ...
— American Adventures - A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' • Julian Street
... 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 |
