She looked down at the fruit on her plate and shot a side-glance through her lashes at Mrs. Peter Van Degen.
I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.
They are children of Nature, and occasionally she whips them with the lashes of experience, yet they are forgetful and careless.
Worked in the early days mostly by means of lashes on the backs of slaves, its yield had been paid for in its own weight of human bones.
She moved her arm slightly from before her eyes so that she could see, and looked cautiously from under thick lashes, screened by the sleeve of her coat.
A rosy-cheeked square-set little figure she was, and her brown eyes, fringed with long black lashes, looked straight at Teddy with something of defiance and scorn in their glance.
If the trail could have told tales, there would have been many a story of dead men washed up on the bars, of sneak-thieves given thirty-nine lashes and like the scapegoat turned out into the mountain wilds--a rough-and-ready justice administered without judge or jury.