Meanings of cruel lash in English

This will do more than the angry look, the stormy threat, and the cruel lash.

Bringing the cruel lash to bear with extreme violence, he sent the dogs howling out upon the glassy surface.

I started to make a clean breast of the whole matter, but the cruel lash cut my sentence short.

Starvation made me glad to leave Thomas Auld's, and the cruel lash made me dread to go to Covey's.

A dozen cuts of the cruel lash, and their maddened horse, bounding at each stroke, broke into a wild canter.

For a while they submitted to the cruel lash, but at last they resolved to defend the right of worshipping God according to their consciences.

The cruel lash of the whip, which cuts through a young girl's flesh like a hot knife through lard, and leaves her very skin unharmed?...

Fast flew the cruel lashes, until Jack's back was covered with wounds and blood.

From within sounds were heard-groansof pain, the sound of cruel lashes, and the clanking of chains.