It was a true highway of war that those whippets of the sea had made the Channel crossing.
"A Minstrel In France"
Harry Lauder
We all have we'r whippets, an' we can clock t' pigeons in, an' see what sort of a bat these young maisters can mak' at knurr-an'-spell-eighteen-and-a-half score my youngest lad does!
"A Crooked Mile"
Oliver Onions
The tanks used were of a new small variety, known as "whippets," which rapidly wiped out the machine-gun nests with which the enemy sought to stem the tide of the victorious onrush.
"America's War for Humanity"
Thomas Herbert Russell