The lancer shakes his head, managing to hold his blade against the lash-like tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magi'i Of Cyador]

He translated bshot as “in the lash-like appendage” because it serves his hunch that the secret alien obelisks are located in a rift of land that juts into the Dead Sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Torah without science] Reference

The ocotilla or candlewood with long, lash-like stalks springing from a common centre -- that cactus, which, when dried, needs only a lighted match to set it afire -- flourishes in the rocky ledges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico] Reference

The units of the recesses each consist of a living particle, whose free extremity is raised into a kind of collar, from which projects a lash-like filament known as a flagellum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky] Reference

Twice the thing at the window coughed; there was an incessant, lash-like cracking, then some shouted words which I was unable to make out; and finally the sharp report of a pistol.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Devil Doctor] Reference

Twice the thing at the window coughed; there was an incessant, lash-like cracking, then some shouted words which I was unable to make out; and finally the staccato report of a pistol.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu] Reference