black-snake

Biddin 'us to strip down to our waists, my little mammy with the boney bent-ovah back, struck each of us as hard as evah she could with that black-snake whip, each stroke of the whip drew blood from our backs.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Indiana Narratives Work Projects Administration

Dog-teams were hauling freight and baggage, with their swearing and perspiring drivers at their heels, and while the big black-snake whips flourished in air above the dogs or upon their straining backs, the tongues of the faithful brutes hung from their mouths, and their wide open eyes looked appealingly at bystanders.

A Woman who went to Alaska May Kellogg Sullivan

This region is bordered by a little jungle of poke-berry and elder-bushes, sumachs and brambles, so dense and thrifty that they overtop and hide the fence; and there is a tradition among the school-boys, that somewhere in the copse there is a black-snake hole, the abode of an enormous monster, upon whom no one, however, has ever happened to set eyes.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various

He was the cunning black-snake which creeps silently in the grass, and none thinks him near till he strikes.

Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian Anonymous

A general hubbub now ensued; among others I could distinguish the word "black-snake whip," but I had heard enough.

A Woman who went to Alaska May Kellogg Sullivan

Before her, squirming along over the sand-scrubbed floor, evidently disabled by a blow, was an enormous black-snake.

Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Edward L. Wheeler

He knew how to drive cattle with the long black-snake whip, whose snapping lash alone can voice the master's orders and which can flick the ear or flank of a wandering steer at the outermost limit of reach.

The Windy Hill Cornelia Meigs 1928

Bohemian cigar worker at whose home he had several times eaten, and finally Michael Dubin, the Jewish boy with whom he had spent fifteen days in jail, and who had been one of the victims of the black-snake whippings.

100\%: the Story of a Patriot Upton Sinclair 1923

On this occasion I saw one thing in common between the employing class and the working class, and that thing was a black-snake whip.

100\%: the Story of a Patriot Upton Sinclair 1923

So the man with the black-snake whip was "fit," and didn't need to stop for breath.

100\%: the Story of a Patriot Upton Sinclair 1923