Sentence: Accompany him through his long and painful march to the coast behold him, when the powers of nature are almost exhausted by fatigue and affliction, urged forward like a brute by the lash, or, with still more bitterness of suffering, seeing the fainting powers of his wretched wife or daughter roused into fresh exertions by the same savage discipline.
Combination: a brute by the lash (root: brute, modifier: lash)
Property: flexible
Property type: canceled