whip-lash

She was a whip-lash, a sting and a flame, an electric spark.

Under the Deck Awnings 2010

And all this infinitesimal fraction of time I am trying to hold the four animals with my left hand, while my whip-lash, writhing through the air, is coming back to me.

FOUR HORSES AND A SAILOR 2010

The one was the toil-slave of the other, and the only caresses it had ever received were the caresses of the whip-lash and of harsh and menacing throat-sounds that threatened the whip-lash.

To Build a Fire 2010

With all his strength and weight, he would shake the branch back and forth until he snapped her off as one would snap a fly from a whip-lash.

CHAPTER XVI 2010

Yes, in a whip-lash moment, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down.

Mubarak leaves Jennifer Rubin 2011

This made them leap from the springboard beyond their normal powers, hurting and straining and injuring them in their desperate attempt to escape the whip-lash, to beat the whip - lash in the air and be past ere it could catch their flying flanks and sting them like a scorpion.

CHAPTER XXVI 2010

They were capable of snapping a man off like a fly from a whip-lash.

Chapter 6 2010

The one was the toil-slave of the other, and the only caresses it had ever received were the caresses of the whip - lash and of harsh and menacing throat-sounds that threatened the whip-lash.

To Build A Fire 2010

The long whip-lash hissed out, the dogs sprang against the breast bands, and the sled lurched and jerked ahead.

THE FAITH OF MEN 2010

Sick or well, he had cut that cord and a half or paid for it under a whip-lash knotted and pickled.

THE HOBO AND THE FAIRY 2010