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If I had not put that snapper on the end of my whip-lash, I might have got off without the ill temper which my antithesis provoked.
"It is not my custom," he coldly said, "to refuse help to a woman." "Confound you!" stormed Coningsby. "Where is she now? Where? Where?" There fell a sudden pause. Carey's eyes were like steel; his grasp never slackened. "If I knew," he said deliberately, at length, "I should not tell you! You are not fit for the society of any good woman." The words fell keen as a whip-lash, and as pitiless.
In certain male cuttle-fishes, in the breeding season, one of the arms develops in a curious fashion into a long coiled whip-lash, and in the act of breeding may then be transferred to the mantle-cavity of the female. Cuvier himself knew nothing of the nature or the function of this separated arm, and indeed, if I am not mistaken, it was he who mistook it for a parasitic worm.
Under cover of night the wounded men were lifted from the ditch and carried back, whilst pickets of archers were advanced to the very gate so that none should rebuild it. Nigel, sick at heart over his own failure, the death of his prisoner and his fears for Aylward, crept back into the camp, but his cup was not yet full, for Knolles was waiting for him with a tongue which cut like a whip-lash.
I was thinking of the bobolinks that twittered and sung, and seemed to tumble upward as well as downward in the air over the waving grass on the meadow; or I heard behind in the dim oak woods the whip-lash sound of the notes of the whippoorwill, repeated a hundred times on the air, while the round face of the moon looked down and made the shadows of the trees and the forest grow deeper and darker.
And as Kirkwood ducked, the whip-lash shot out over the roof with a crack like the report of a pistol. Startled, the horse leaped indignantly forward. Momentarily the cab seemed to leave the ground, then settled down to a pace that carried them round the Avenue Theatre and across Northumberland Avenue into Whitehall Place apparently on a single wheel.
The whip-lash now came off the whip; it was fastened on again, and again, and every time it was shorter, so that at last there was not a lash, nor was there any handle, for the handle went after the lash or sailed after it as the road was quite navigable, and gave one a vivid idea of the beginning of the deluge.
He snapped his whip-lash lightly on old Sofia's back, who looked up surprised, and, seeming to comprehend matters, began to reach out broad, flat, thin legs in a pace which the proud colt respected. She came of illustrious line, did Sofia, scant-haired and ungracious as she now was. "Don't run over me!" called the doctor, ironically, and, with Sofia still leading, they swung into the yard.
I always expect to see the gorse and daisies growing on the old people's heads to match the cabins. But they come over here and forget their idleness, and in a week or two the east winds are making them work, and thrashing them if they are slow, worse than any slave-driver who ever cracked his whip-lash. I wonder how you stand it; I do, indeed!
"Why do you not answer me?" cried Moritz, stamping his foot. "Are you the coward? Was this red scar caused by the whip-lash?" Another long pause ensued, and a distinctly audible voice was heard, saying, "Yes, it is he!" "Who replied to me?" asked Moritz, turning his angry glance away from Ebenstreit. "I," said Marie. "I reply for my husband!" "You? Are you the wife of this man?" thundered Moritz.
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