But to his credit he never flinched; his white face calmly waited to receive the blow.

Then she deflected the stroke, and the long lash hissed out and fell among the dogs.

Swinging the whip briskly, she rose to her knees on the sled and called frantically to the animals.

Hers was the better team, and she shot rapidly away from Corliss.

She wished to get away, not so much from him as from herself, and she encouraged the huskies into wilder and wilder speed.
She took the steep river-bank in full career and dashed like a whirlwind through the town and home.