1 She was hatless and white faced and her long gray hair streamed down her back as she lashed the horse like a Fury.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXI 2 Maddened by terror, she lashed the horse again and again and it struck a gait that made the buggy rock and sway.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XLIV 3 They speculated as to how flats could be lashed together to form a wall; they hung crocus-yellow curtains at the windows; they blacked the sheet-iron stove; they put on aprons and swept.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XVIII 4 At all times except when whales were alongside, this bench was securely lashed athwartships against the rear of the Try-works.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 107. The Carpenter. 5 Even the cabin table itself had been knocked into kindling-wood; and the cabin mess dined off the broad head of an oil-butt, lashed down to the floor for a centrepiece.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 115. The Pequod Meets The Bachelor. 6 The drivers stood up and lashed their horses.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII 7 He could not sleep again; there was the same maddening procession of thoughts that lashed him like whips upon his naked back.
8 The crowded mirror of the Horican was gone; and, in its place, the green and angry waters lashed the shores, as if indignantly casting back its impurities to the polluted strand.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 18 9 Around him he could hear the grumble of jolted cannon as the scurrying horses were lashed toward the front.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen CraneGet Context In Chapter 12 10 And, with the word, both jumped in, and Phineas lashed the horses to a run, the horseman keeping close beside them.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XVII 11 The men fired again and again, and, when the animals got to close quarters, lashed out with their sticks and their heavy boots.
Animal Farm By George OrwellGet Context In Chapter VIII 12 It was cow language presumably, for the parti-coloured cow, who had thrust her head in at the door lowered her horns, lashed her tail and ambled off.
Between the Acts (1941) By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 2 13 The driver wanted no directions, but lashed his horse into full speed, without the delay of an instant.
Oliver Twist By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER XX 14 The drops which lashed her face were not scorpions, but prosy rain; Egdon in the mass was no monster whatever, but impersonal open ground.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyGet Context In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers 15 The instant that we heard it, Holmes sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with his cane at the bell-pull.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND