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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.)

With a flirt of the arm he sent the lash of the dog-whip snaking out toward Jessie.

Each whip-snap of that stinging struggling body jarred the rider shrewdly.

And then, as though to offset these added suggestions of danger, we saw children playing about quietly behind the piled sand-bags, guarded by plump Flemish nursemaids, and smart dogcarts constantly passed and repassed us, filled with well-dressed women, and with flowers stuck in the whip-sockets.

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.

Pride of regiment had been struck a whip-blow, which meant more to the soldier than any injury to his personal pride.

West laid open the nose of one in an ugly cut with the iron-bound end of his whip-butt.

Bells and a whip dangle from the pole of the chariot.