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    1. A part of me, the lingering essence of the creature in the box, wanted to lash out at him, but I kept my calm, breathing slowly, not wanting to antagonise the beast


    2. " He wants to lash out at her but then he notices her voice


    3. Her feet started to lash out in


    4. she lurched forward into the thick of the fight and started to lash


    5. unconscious boys were still trying to lash out as the magic boots


    6. lash out amid the bodies and the bruises, she thought that she could


    7. didn’t care and continued to lash him with his whip,


    8. The pub is a small and rather dirty place in the base of a hillside neighborhood that had been in the textile trade since the lash was grown here


    9. A woman with a tongue that whipped like a lash, who carried a knife, meant for another person’s back


    10. " She helped Dyinholm lash one end of his counter as she said this

    11. 'With a wind like this it could reach the moons,’ he murmured, as the rain began to lash his tent with unerring accuracy


    12. Froth formed at his lips while he opened his mouth, preparing to lash out in the One Elf's defense


    13. He expected Nicola the lash out at him, but instead she merely nodded her scarred head


    14. The rain began to lash, driving


    15. Nerissa found the cave just as the worst of the storm began to lash the slope with sheets


    16. And bids them lash him to the mast


    17. The beast appeared to lash and thrash at the stone above their cave and that which flanked it


    18. It was difficult not to lash back at him


    19. Edward wanted to lash out at the man, yet he knew that for the moment he had to keep his senses and remain calm


    20. And she had to lash out at something

    21. However, before I could lash out at him, Ozzie scampered across the room to where my son’s toy box was stashed inside the closet


    22. Whenever she fell, or her attention slipped, Millicent would lash out with a powerful fist or foot


    23. “When people are afraid, they lash out


    24. She does not spare the whip, nor the lash, in her investigations and conclusions into what is transparently wrong with the life of the mind in modern Western Civilization


    25. He jumped to his feet in the pitch black, and with a scream of rage, began to lash out at the walls around him


    26. As one who has no master, they lash out without thought or consideration


    27. “You just need to lash yourself to the wheel


    28. As he distanced himself back from the wall to have more room to lash out to the chained man, a shout from across the chamber halted him with his whip barely halting in mid-air:


    29. Now, its cast shadow seemed to forbid entry while the hedges at either side of the lane, appeared to lash out with their thorns


    30. Abelon was taking her lash as her infuriated father struck out at whatever was before him

    31. ” She flinched as she expected her added confession would bring another lash


    32. The lash confirmed the whip, but it had landed on him not her


    33. cane and threatened to lash him if he did not move on instantly


    34. I thought he might shift from the self-effacing Abnegation leader to the nightmare I knew at home, that he might lash out and reveal himself for who he is


    35. He'd give a thousand without blinking a lash, and roar like a Bull of Bashan if he had to pay five cents too much for anything


    36. This was ridiculous, wanting to lash out at an underling, a secretary for crimes her boss and his whore had committed


    37. horizontal to lash Derek’s face


    38. Jonathan Lash, president of the World Resources Institute, agrees that water is cleaner, air is clearer, and resources are better managed as a result of heightened environmental concerns


    39. The challenge now, says Lash, is to shift support to longer-term projects such as climate change that people can’t see for themselves


    40. Gathering allegiance for this new greening of America, Lash says, will require that adherents to the cause “assert what they believe in

    41. ” Lash sees the mainline churches as having a major role to play


    42. If you can’t see for yourself what the new environmental horrors portend, Lash seems to be saying, don’t worry


    43. Lash must know that a human cause for climate change has not been scientifically proved


    44. Jonathan Lash says that he and his groups will supply a new set of beliefs to fill the void, as well as the vacant churches


    45. This new coalition, Lash boasts, will “set the moral tone for the whole country


    46. Ward Connerly, Walter Williams, Shelby Steele, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and many other blacks prominent for their individual achievements have felt the lash of this unrelenting tactic


    47. No matter what happens, leaders of great nations are expected to control their emotions and work through proper legal procedures, even upon the death of a child and while under a curse, and to not lash out personally at those who are not under their jurisdiction


    48. Each beat of his wings sent a further lash of pain through Simon’s body, building up to a crescendo until he thought he would faint, but that release was denied him


    49. heal from the lash of our God's anger! Only He will know when we are ready to receive that


    50. something, and would probably lash out because of it












































    1. A rope lashed around Brandon's neck pulled him against the statue


    2. in the wind lashed space between sky and sea


    3. Storming around the table bellowing foul language, Chas reached Mickey and lashed out with his fist


    4. Grinly growled and lashed out with his pick-handle


    5. Without comment, he calmly lashed out with one massive hand and slapped her face, knocking her back against the pillows


    6. Spitting venom into the face of kindness, shuffling away, unable to take his eyes off the porthole window to the main mortuary room, Billy had lashed out one more time and spurned this small moment of human kindness


    7. When father and I came in, we followed suit and in a little while we sat around the hearth and sipped hot tea, as the winds and rains lashed at the shutters and roof in a noisy percussive concert


    8. As she was lashed securely


    9. we’d previously lashed out to pay the fortune required to


    10. The wild storm which lashed the village during the night

    11. And all the while, the Sea God’s anger lashed our sails with stinging spume


    12. After Father lashed the rudder, we were able to row in the direction of Aunt Melissa’s


    13. In a single surge he lifted himself another few centimetres and moving quickly, before he lost momentum, he lashed out with the hand that had been in the crack and grabbed at the rocky surface on top of the cliff


    14. Elijah was holding onto his hat for dear life as the enemy shrapnel lashed our positions he lifted his head about a quarter inch off the deck and said


    15. ” The man stepped forward whether to remonstrate with her or to grasp her I don’t’ no but before I could move Anne’s hand curled into a fist and she lashed out like a striking snake


    16. But in the end she had lashed out at herself


    17. there, across the clearing, and some tents were only erected by being lashed to the sides of grey T-


    18. He even had tall trees lashed to the


    19. The Shenandoah was anchored in eighteen fathoms as the Laurel came to and was lashed alongside of her


    20. the guns were lashed

    21. I could see that some of the lads had a martyr’s expression on their faces others walked along with backs bent like old men and still the rain lashed down


    22. The piggy looking German gunner lashed out at me with the hammer but I soon put a stop to him spitting him on my bayonet


    23. He tried to stroke the cat but it lashed out with sharp claws and carved deep gashes in his hand


    24. He couldn’t stop the images that haunted him: Alexia’s final, brutal moments, the knife slicing quickly and cleanly through her delicate throat, the red spray coating the ring, the light fading from her eyes… Raven lashed out at the table in his room, kicking it with as much force as he could muster


    25. When the bay door slid open, a torrent of rain lashed in


    26. As the wind buffeted the aircraft and the rain lashed it with a growing intensity, Gonzalez stared out at the dark clouds, fingers restlessly caressing the firearm strapped to his side, vivid images playing across the lids of his closed eyes as he relived his tours in Afghanistan


    27. The wind clipped the tops of the waves into long white frothy streamers that lashed Alex’s face


    28. I will always remember a white girl of about 20years weeping whilst being lashed with a sjambok while lying on the ground


    29. Turning on his attackers, the exhausted badger lashed out at the lead rat with a slashing blow


    30. "Is that all you've got to say?" Aunt Martha's voice lashed out acidly as she strode into the room

    31. Out in the street, Frank hunched his shoulders as the rain lashed down on him


    32. Meanwhile, she lashed out with accusation that Beth was punishing her for stealing the money when she refused a drug she could have self-injected


    33. Conal tried again and this time she lashed out at him, catching him across the nose


    34. on a rectangle of poles, lashed together with rawhide


    35. The large vehicle drove through the rain storm, which lashed her vehicle, and the road around her as it weaved around the curves and bends of the highland roads


    36. the leather strap that lashed out time after time, biting into my


    37. Beth lashed her arms over the bigger man’s shoulders and around his back, straining to reach her adversary’s flesh


    38. Colling bought a keg that he lashed to the side of the cart and filled with water from the town well


    39. The crippled battleship joined forces with its attackers and all three lashed out at the remaining two


    40. The man hunched over, but lashed out, the rod of his lance knocking

    41. was still damp, and wind lashed about him in gales


    42. blood boiling, his anger taking control, Cloud lashed out at the


    43. The wagon lurched forward as the pipe-smoker lashed the reins on the horses’ backs


    44. Rain lashed the craft and its inhabitants furiously


    45. The sound lashed across Virginia’s face like a whip


    46. I was expecting Zacchaeus’ hand, so I lashed out at his cheek through my claw like fingernails, implanting my fangs deeply into his veins, his blood spurting out when he reeled his head to the side from the shock of my nails scratching at his face


    47. The choppy water lashed at the concrete and brick abutments lining the bank where she was sitting


    48. And Lucky dealt with hurt in two ways, either she lashed out or she shut out


    49. He was three meters long from his nose to the back of his haunches, and another two meters of tail lashed behind


    50. Whips lashed out of a dark void to sear his body, but all that he could really feel was that accursed itch













































    1. This statement is made by Paul, who suffered lashes at the hands of the Jews 5 times, 3 times he was beaten with rods, once pelted with stones, shipwrecked 3 times, spent a day and a night in the open sea, had been constantly on the move, had been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from his fellow Jews, in danger from Gentiles, in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger in the sea, in danger from false believers, had gone without sleep, had known hunger and thirst – often going without food, and has been cold and naked


    2. solid and distilled behind honey shaded lashes


    3. Lack-A-Bed stripped his eyes of lashes,


    4. They were both rather voluptuous with pouty lips and long lashes over their dark eyes and thick, wavy, shiny, black hair


    5. Her blueberry eyes were huge with lids that drooped with long golden lashes


    6. The tears, had already escaped her dark lashes by the time she reached the footbridge


    7. She couldn't see anything through the mascara-streaked lashes


    8. Even their lashes were pursed to a point


    9. Her lashes stuck shut, with the heavy moisture and Jim wiped them free with a single stroke of his hand


    10. him flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime deserves, but he must

    11. Such behaviour would not be tolerated by the court officials and it was punishable by five lashes with a braided camel-tail whip on the naked back


    12. His delicately shaped lips and long eye lashes would be the envy of most women


    13. “How’s Charlie are his wounds mended yet I expected him to be back home by now?” Tears started to fall from Beth’s eyes and to catch in her lashes before shedding down her cheeks a small sob like a sigh escaped her lips as she replied


    14. For a start he looked even younger than me and with his fair hair blue eyes and long eye lashes he looked a bit effeminate to say the least


    15. Women with small eyes should avoid applying mascara to the bottom lashes, or should stick to a very light coat


    16. Line top and bottom lashes with brown pencil


    17. Clear mascara is a great choice for new mothers because it makes your lashes look long and healthy but it cannot sweat off or run off, even with the biggest splash from a toddler in the tub


    18. Brown eyes with long white lashes stared at Carmen with obvious curiosity


    19. His eyes were riveted on Rita’s face which spoke of a thousand promises with the slow flutter of her long black lashes


    20. It really should not be a crime or on the law books but it is and the sentences for it harsh in Muslim countries where flogging in public (100 lashes) and or stoning to death is the norm

    21. The story says he was publicly chastised, with a hundred lashes to his back; the chastisement had brought him to the brink of death


    22. Private Mott of the 5th, was given fifty lashes and almost bled to death for, and I quote: ’Not being vigilant enough in the persecution of vile deeds that promoted sin, incurred the wrath of the Gods or were an affront to the Pantheon and the Ruling Council’


    23. They had given him fifty lashes because he wasn’t vigilant enough


    24. Ardara blinked the blood from her lashes


    25. ” I said softly, batting my lashes at him and he paused then shook his head in resignation “Fine


    26. “That’s a little hard since she keeps batting her lashes at you right in front of me


    27. Her thick lashes fluttered and she opened her eyes


    28. My own dog—my friend, my family, my guardian—whom I have loved and cared for, lashes out at me


    29. The wind of the moment lashes between the sheets,


    30. The wind of the moment lashes between the sheets, without hubris, it denies the solitude of a

    31. experience of public recantation, receiving thirty-nine lashes and prostrating himself so that the entire congregation could tread on him


    32. His beloved Sari sat crouched in the attitude of beseeching prayer, head slightly uplifted, the long lashes of her closed eyes curved up from them


    33. With the aid of the proffered hand, Sari rose slowly, carefully, to stand before Moshe, her head bowed low, long lashes almost covering downcast eyes


    34. In the tide as it lashes and in the mist of the air


    35. lashes, on five separate occasions (2 Cor


    36. ear as more tears strained through her lashes


    37. erect posture, his darkly tanned face with long dark lashes and


    38. The rain raged, leaving no choice but to run to a retreat under the leafy branches of a tree that was cradled under the lashes of the harsh wind in a storm


    39. ” She shut her eyes again, this time forming images of Philip in her mind’s eye; the soft hair she’d run her fingers through only hours earlier; those thick lashes that swept across dark chocolate eyes; the stubble he’d brushed against her face as he kissed her cheek at the train station


    40. “They’re here!” She looked at Angela and then to Little Philip who smiled and blinked his long lashes over perfectly round, chocolate-colored eyes

    41. Cannot you discern that no two persons are likely to agree as to the punishment which would satisfy the demands of justice? One would impose forty lashes, another twenty, while still another would advise solitary confinement as a just punishment


    42. However, they pleaded for mercy and averred that their separation followed by a few lashes would drive home the point


    43. Her dark eyes, shaded by long dusky lashes, were deep with sensuous mystery


    44. The lashes consisted of seven round silk cords, harder yet more pliant than leather thongs


    45. Her long dark lashes quivered on her cheeks; her eyes opened, stared up unbelievingly into the Cimmerian's scarred face


    46. At his words the long dark lashes lifted; the eyes opened and gazed up at him inscrutably, dark, lustrous, mystical


    47. Tears sparkled like jewels on her long dark lashes


    48. There are different types of mascaras available today, and one of them can help you add more volume to sparse lashes


    49. Your waterline is actually found just right above your lower lashes, which can also be considered to be at your inner eye


    50. In addition, he detested the winters with the cold, biting winds that drive the falling snow so fast and furiously, it lashes and stings the unprotected face











































    1. Locked down with the shock, bound in chains of fear, I tried to break my bonds by lashing out at phantoms amid irrational bouts of bravado


    2. lashing decks with rain and stinging salt


    3. He was out of his mind with grief at the time, lashing out at everyone


    4. then did her feet stop lashing about in the back of the car


    5. lashing at the ancient stonework, Tom was astonished to see a lone


    6. It began lashing out in an attempt to free


    7. She very cautiously edged nearer to it, dodging its snapping jaws and leaping to barely avoid its lashing tail


    8. We believed it because the Turkish artillery was lashing the beaches firing down from Achi Baba but what really convinced us was that ‘Asiatic Annie’ was firing her heavy shells at both V and W Beaches


    9. Teron is also considered the more wild and volatile of the two halves of the Power, described as an avalanche of ice or a volcano of fire, wielders are often fighting for their lives to control their grip on the Power to avoid being severed from teron or causing harm to others by lashing out with the Power


    10. The sound of an approaching helicopter competed with the rumblings of the low hanging clouds as the summer storm grew in intensity, lashing the landscape with rain

    11. I was constantly lashing out at anyone or anything


    12. He’s lashing out at a system that he perceives as unjust, due to an inequitable distribution of resources


    13. Maybe she was just being too sensitive about Caroline’s choice of words (she was, after all, extremely uptight), so she restrained herself from lashing out


    14. Sut’s lashing out at


    15. And the wind grew louder and stronger; the sands started to tear at their skin, lashing them like razor sharp tufts of steely grass


    16. lashing out and flashing to help keep her strong, and Junya’s comprehension of those


    17. They were all lashing out in their own ways


    18. As the numbing cold and painful lashing of the water drained the strength from those who tried to fight it, a great stillness overtook Virginia


    19. across as cold, almost confrontational, lashing out at my every


    20. The buses should convert to batteries and find a recycling depot not having the abrasive lashing out

    21. Remnant of me lashing out with the


    22. The Furies surrounded Grover and Annabeth, lashing their whips, hissing: “Where is it? Where?”


    23. Ropes sprang from the sides of the bed, lashing around Annabeth, holding her to the mattress


    24. The red warrior staggered as the ropes tightened al at once, lashing


    25. I wandered across the ineptly named Golden Square and into Carnaby Street, just another grotty lane of cheap fashionable junk, where I bought a pair of tight jeans that had eyelets with cord lashing instead of fly buttons, and a pair of white canvas ‘sailor’ trousers with a flap instead of a fly


    26. lashing out and hating God


    27. He skewered one of the gryphons from below, taking care not to be stung by the lashing tail


    28. Storm clouds in every conceivable shade of grey had heaped themselves along the coastline fifteen kilometres away, and slanting torrents of rain were already lashing seaside towns and suburbs


    29. He anticipated another verbal lashing


    30. Mostly whip lashing, punctures from darts, cuts and cigarette burns

    31. From the extreme wing rushed a chariot, the naked charioteer lashing the steeds like a madman; the other occupant was a tall figure whose robe floated spectrally on the wind


    32. In the chariot stood Natohk, his robes flying; and gripping the reins and lashing like mad, crouched a black anthropomorphic being that might have been a monster ape


    33. In an instant he was the center of a hurricane of stabbing spears and lashing clubs


    34. Blood drenched the rails as the dying monster swayed far out, still gripping its victim, and sank into the river, coil by coil, lashing the water to bloody foam, in which man and reptile vanished together


    35. He was inside the lashing arms and driving his sword deep in the monster's belly—felt the arms lock about him and the talons ripping the mail from his back as they sought his vitals—he was lapped and dazzled by blue flame that was chill as ice—then he had torn fiercely away from the weakening arms and his sword cut the air in a tremendous swipe


    36. Something touched his foot that chilled like the touch of frost, and then the darkness beneath him was disturbed by a frightful thrashing and lashing, and a man cried out in agony


    37. There was a sound of lashing heels, and something that was struck heavily and gave way


    38. Passing the other cells, he marched towards me, occasionally lashing out at the arms of the prisoners with his baton, still smiling that fucking ugly grin of his as he did so


    39. lashing the windows, the rain drumming so hard on


    40. Standing, she began to give Siri a tongue lashing lecture about prejudice and homophobia

    41. " He wondered what sort of tongue lashing he might have received, whether he chose correctly or not


    42. The seas are lashing with fury being cheated of their prey,


    43. The Continent had joined the Eastern military in lashing out vigorously for the attack and almost destroyed the Bard Territory in their vehemence


    44. He scowled at it, lashing out his tongue and reeling the bee into his jaws


    45. Besides providing illumination, the mango scented candle cast shadows, dancing and lashing about


    46. “Do you know how long she will survive in this freezing water, with thirty foot waves lashing at her?” Replied Hamilton angrily


    47. lashing out with al his strength and leaving none of his energy


    48. Please don't keep lashing out


    49. lashing out at the wrong person


    50. They waited out of sight in the water, until the only occupant, a man in his mid-thirties, completed locking up and lashing down the canvas cover to the deck













































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    Synonyms for "lash"

    lash whip whiplash thong cilium eyelash flog lather slash strap trounce welt strike beat hit thrash cane flagellate rod tie truss bind make fast chain secure

    "lash" definitions

    any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids


    leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip


    a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object


    beat severely with a whip or rod


    lash or flick about sharply


    strike as if by whipping


    bind with a rope, chain, or cord