Again she was misled into fancying that she held a whip-hand over him.

Thus we find, in addition to the prison, the whipping-post and the pillory, the ducking-stool.

As swift as a whip-lash he whirled on the broken-legged leader of the pack and with the full rush and weight of his shoulders struck him fairly in the side.

Here is another telling specimen about the same height, 426 years old, whose trunk is only six inches in diameter; and one of its supple branchlets, hardly an eighth of an inch in diameter inside the bark, is seventy-five years old, and so filled with oily balsam, and so well seasoned by storms, that we may tie it in knots like a whip-cord.

Her colour was high with the fresh morning, and she kept tapping her boot with her whip handle.

" "No, but you've tried hard enough for five or six days to get Mac to the point where he would come out and show us how to whip-saw.

He always stayed pretty late, and on the way home he'd tie the reins to the whip-stock and go to sleep, and never wake up till Cleve or Pacer, whichever one he happened to have, would draw up in the barnyard.

The odorous cedar chests containing my lady's wardrobe are strapped behind or piled on top, the negroes form a grinning avenue, the whip cracks, and they are off, half a dozen servants following in an open cart.

We walked into the middle, which is formed by a half-moon of wired boxes, all mansions of snakes,whip-snakes, thunder-snakes, pig-nose-snakes, American vipers, and this monster.

They sat on their haunches in the snow, and grinned at the whip-crackings and futile "Mush, mush!" of the Colonel.

Then with a joy that comes only to those who are saving a fellow-creature from death, the life-savers saw a man climb into the stout canvas breeches of the hanging buoy, and felt the tug on the whip-line that told them that the rescue had begun.

I used to call him Cyclops mastigophorus, Cyclops the whip-bearer, until I observed that his skill made whips useless, except to fetch off an impertinent fly from a leader's head; upon which I changed his Grecian name to Cyclops diphrélates (Cyclops the charioteer.)

180 Where sold he bargains, whip-stitch, kiss my ae, Promised a play, and dwindled to a farce? When did his muse from Fletcher scenes purloin, As thou whole Etheridge dost transfuse to thine?

The crack of his whip resounds afar, like that of an angry cartman beating his horses.

The steer raged and tore about, and would allow no one to come within whip touch of him.

(How pleasant it would be to have a sort of spiritual whipping-boy to bear the nasty things in life for onethe disappointments, the worries, the times of illness and sorrow, the partings.)

The negro denied, but, without ceremony, was lashed to a treethe whipping commencedsix or eight men took turnsthe poor fellow begged for mercy, but without effect, until he was literally cut to pieces, from his shoulders to his hips, and covered with a gore of blood.

Why he put he hand rough, on place where whip strike?

His language was the language of disheveled romanticism, full of involved expressions, unfamiliar turns of speech, delighted with extravagant comparisons and with whip strokes and phrases which exploded, like the clangor of noisy bells, along the text.

Toy Bull-terriers ought to have an alert, gay appearance, coupled with refinement, which requires a nice whip tail.

My heavy cutting-whip whistledand touched nothing.

There is a round-worm which at times infests the dog's bladder, and may cause occlusion of the urethra; a whip-worm inhabiting the caecum; another may occupy a position in the mucous membrane of the stomach; some infest the blood, and others the eye.

I was awakened, as usual, by the outcries of the refractory negroes receiving their matinal stripes in the whipping-house.

But, to his horror and surprise, he was taken back to Surinam, and tied to a stake at the whipping-place, and lashed until the very flesh was torn from his bones.

The same cold, whipping spray which calls up the pink blood, glowing through the marble of the skin, drives the ache of sleep from the brain, and washes away at once all the recorded thoughts of yesterday.