Lantlu's arm was jerked back as though a stronger hand had gripped his wrist, the whip fell to the stone.

Before they could recover, the whip fell with a crack upon the closer of the two, who cried out in pain and dropped his truncheon.

Again Hal's whip fell upon the dogs.

How many times great tears flowed from his eyes when the overseer's whip fell upon Bat!

And inside himself he made the whip fall a dozen times more.

He beat her until his arm ached and the whip fell from numbed fingers.

The world around her vanished as pain exploded up from where the whip fell, into her brain and out to every part of her body.

He sighed again as the whip fell across his back, and the overseer went down the line lashing right and left.

When the window had been shut again, he repeated the general's words, so that the raised whip fell without touching the culprit.

And Frances stood, whip fallen to her side, feeling somehow that it was all her fault.