The only other plan was to land, drag the canoe as far as possible out of the current and into the fringe of smoother water, and then tow her; and this they agreed to adopt.
How much farther did the outraged beast intend to drag horse and rider?
They will sometimes upset a whole canoe, or will lift a man out of his seat and drag him to the bottom.
See how every one of these primary essentials of civilization becomes, as man advances, a drag upon his progress; see how he now struggles to free himself from what, at the outset, he was led by ways he knew not to endure so patiently.
Frequently we had to cut chips from the inside of our cabin to start a fire, and we were so weak from want of food that we could scarcely drag ourselves from one cabin to the other, and so four dreadful months wore away.
The watching captain, through his glass, saw Ida row close to the capsized boat and with strong, steady hands pull and drag one after another of the men into her boat.
And still we were obliged to drag our weary feet on, for ten long miles, when we reached the Jacob Donner wagons.
As she bent down her quick eye saw a cannon near where the wounded man lay, a heavy, cumbersome gun which the Continentals had evidently left behind as being of a type too heavy to drag with them on their hasty march to Morristown.
When he was brought to justice he prayed that his right hand, vowed to the service of the devil, might be cut off before his execution, lest the astute ruler of Hades seize the said hand and drag the whole body along with it.
When once we are in the care of Jesus, nothing shall ever drag us away from that.
Slowly they made their way home again, while Cherry's halting steps seemed to drag more wearily than they had done while hope beat in her bosom.
Not hunger's power has force to drag him thence; Nor cares of sleep oppress him.
From her sphere “Orion's mother Mycalé, by charms “The moon to drag to earth has oft been known.
For them it is a thing of ugliness, which they drag into the light of day and laugh at.
They next attempted a raft; but after the logs had been cut, the sick people were not able to drag them to the water side.
His drag finished, the fish are taken out, and thrown into the gourds, which are open at the top, to receive the produce of his labor.
She was therefore compelled to drag the chain by which, with her own will, she had bound herself for life to one she already despised and detested.
He was in the navy, and at the capture of Quebec, where he assisted the sailors to drag the cannon up the heights of Abraham; m.
You are not so fatuous as to want to drag a surveyor's chain across its cold chasms and jagged heights; and after a brief study of your frozen charmer you would turn your telescope on something accessible and more valuable.
It is so ugly, I never can like it, and a little baby that can't speak her mind ought not to be tied to something she must drag all her life and hate for ever and ever.
Suppose you had wounded your Robert so deeply, so sorely he never forgave you, would you wish to drag the horror up and talk of the details?
Studying the portrait above her, and that of her lovely young mother on the opposite wall, she began for the first time to take possession of her Maurice birthright, conscious that here her pride could never drag anchor.
I was told that hundreds were taken; certainly whole batteries were left behind, the majority of the horses having been worked to death in an endeavour to dragthem away.
In this way I ultimately arrived near Ostrolenka, in such a state of exhaustion and suffering that I could scarcely drag myself over the ground.
Perhaps I am strong enough to drag him home; I will at least try it," said Molly.
At last the thought that it would be possible for her to drag him to the cavern struck the compassionate girl.
Be advised, then, in time, since if your foot was on the very threshold of that door you hope to call your own, the power lies with me to drag you back again and proclaim you to all the world a swindler.
The Sportsman and the Squirrel A Sportsman who had wounded a Squirrel, which was making desperate efforts to drag itself away, ran after it with a stick, exclaiming: "Poor thing!
You come to conduct me back to Falkland House; but no force shall ever drag me to that place alive.
Why do I seek to drag on an existence, which, if protracted, must be protracted amidst the lairs of these human tigers?
I am compelled todrag for ever the intolerable load of existence, upon penalty, if at any period, however remote, I shake it off, of having that impatience regarded as confirming a charge of murder.
These limbs, and this trunk, are a cumbrous and unfortunate load for the power of thinking to drag along with it; but why should not the power of thinking be able to lighten the load, till it shall be no longer felt?
Sometimes he could hardly drag himself about, he was so bad with the rheumatics.
Poor Hermy may sometimes drag me down; but I will do my best.
Harry was thinking rather how fearful it was that a man should have it in his power to drag any woman through such a Gehenna as that which this lord had created.
I hope you're not going to drag up that dispute about the carters, Godfrey.
My daughter Marion's duty on these occasions is to drag young men from the shelter of the chestnut-tree and make them play tennis with young women called from one or other of the rows in which their mothers have planted them.
It ain't just the thing to drag you along here when there's no real need of it, and I reckon you'd best turn back, my son.
With the least possible delay he made this fast to the wheel of the wagon in such fashion that the drag would come upon the cart sideways, and, as soon as might be, rove the casting-line through the block.
During fifteen minutes more the men pulled and tugged, straining every muscle to drag the heavily laden wagon over the difficult way, and then as if by common consent another halt was made.
Secessionists must invent something new, before they can either frighten or drag her out of the Union.
They know that we are in earnest, and that before they can kill any one of us, he will break a hole in the ice large enough todrag two or three of them along with him.
Darnley forced himself between the queen and Rizzio, to separate them from one another, and probably the intention was to drag him out of her presence, and dispatch him.
When the first astonishment at this unlooked-for declaration had passed, there was a rush to drag down Cranmer, and hurry him to the stake in the same spot where his friends Ridley and Latimer had suffered.
Davison was terrified at the gulf on the edge of which he saw himself standing, with the queen ready and longing to drag him in.
Bare facts would have shown that the living had become too emaciated, too weak, to dig graves, or to lift or drag the dead up the narrow snow steps, even had open graves awaited their coming.
Snyder declared that the Reed team ought to be made to drag its wagon up without help.
They halloed, and up the snow steps came those able to drag themselves to the surface.
For a naked man to drag a shrieking, clawing man-eater forth from a window by the tail to save a strange white girl, was indeed the last word in heroism.
Almost simultaneously Clayton regained his feet, and without thought of the utter hopelessness of it, he rushed forward to drag the ape from his wife's prostrate form.
So quickly did Tarzan of the Apes drag back his prey that Kulonga's cry of alarm was throttled in his windpipe.
Before she could reach them, however, Clayton had jumped to Tarzan's side and attempted to drag Canler from his grasp.
Some one else approached the seat, some one in the last stage of raggedness, so exhausted that he seemed hardly able to drag one foot behind the other.
They apparently did their best to drag his arms and legs out of their sockets; he felt his clothes giving way in all directions.
Besides, he was too prostrated to resist, even had he wished, and he allowed the other to drag him into a position in which he might study his features at his leisure.
The policeman began todrag the lad along the entry.
The policeman stuck to him with extraordinary tenacity; with equal tenacity the crowd endeavoured to drag him away.
