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There for nineteen months he toiled at the oar under the lash, and through the cold of two winters, and the heat of the intervening summer, had leisure to count the cost of the choice so recently made.— John Knox
The groan of breaking hearts is there The falling lash--the fetter's clank!— The Liberty Minstrel
With curses and the sharp persuasion of the lash, the merciless driver seeks to force the animal to efforts of which it is plainly incapable.— The Essentials of Spirituality
This moral lash is almost more odious than the other, for its thongs are made of the affections and the domestic 'virtues,' than which there can be nothing sneakier or more detestable Henriette heaved a discouraged sigh.— The Daughters of Danaus
The lash was again about to be applied to make him rise, but Disco and Harold rose simultaneously and rushed at the driver, with what intent they scarcely knew; but four armed half-castes stepped between them and the slave You had better not interfere," said Marizano, who stood close by Out of the way!"— Black Ivory

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