Example Sentences

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There were probably not three men in the university who would have dared to shoot the lasher in the state it was then.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur

A little above it was a mill; and the lasher made a pleasant cool sound in the scented dusk.

From The Thirty-Nine Steps by Buchan, John

I chanced to be laughing to myself at the time at the thought of a fellow who, only the day before at the lasher, had tried to do the same thing.

From An American at Oxford by Corbin, John

When we "shoot the lasher," as the phrase goes, you will get a hint as to why the obsolete term still clings to this weir.

From An American at Oxford by Corbin, John

He sculled down to Sandford, bathed in the lasher, and returned in time for chapel.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas