about 1900, O. Henry, Hygeia at the Solito
He sprang into the saddle easily as a bird, got the quirt from the horn, and gave his pony a slash with it.

[…] when the young man whirled his horse, “hazed” Jupiter in circles and belaboured him with a rawhide quirt, […] He ceased his cavortings […]

She raised the handle of her beautiful quirt to her eyes and scanned the Western horizon.

He rode his horse with the reins tied and he wore a pistol at his belt and a plain flatcrowned hat of a type no longer much seen in that country and he wore tooled boots to his knees and carried a quirt.

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