1 To be stung by irony it is not necessary to understand it, and the angry streaks on Trenor's face might have been raised by an actual lash.
2 Strike nothing, and stir nothing, but lash everything.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 120. The Deck Towards the End of the First Night ... 3 These floated aside, the broken ends drooping, the crew at the stern-wreck clinging to the gunwales, and striving to hold fast to the oars to lash them across.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day. 4 How the wild winds blow it; they whip it about me as the torn shreds of split sails lash the tossed ship they cling to.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day. 5 All about us the snow was crusted in shallow terraces, with tracings like ripple-marks at the edges, curly waves that were the actual impression of the stinging lash in the wind.
6 Over them, relentless and savage, there cracked the lash of want; the morning after the wedding it sought them as they slept, and drove them out before daybreak to work.
7 Scarcely a day passed, during the summer, but that some slave had to take the lash for stealing fruit.
8 This plan worked well; the slaves became as fearful of tar as of the lash.
9 I have frequently felt her head, and found it nearly covered with festering sores, caused by the lash of her cruel mistress.
10 This woman's back, for weeks, was kept literally raw, made so by the lash of this merciless, religious wretch.
11 Mr. Hopkins could always find something of this sort to justify the use of the lash, and he seldom failed to embrace such opportunities.
12 The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on one corner of the bed.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND 13 The lash, however, was curled upon itself and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND 14 Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we had noticed during the day.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND 15 At once, like a lash across the face, came the possibility of losing my own age, of being left helpless in this strange new world.