What would you think of a man who cleared a 'forty', and pulled all the stumps, and then quit work?
I never pulled a gun unless I meant to shoot," said Ware grimly.
Taking as deliberate aim as his condition permitted, he pulled at the trigger.
In the most business-like fashion and despite the variegated objections of Austin and his disreputable satellites, Thorne and his men attached their ropes to the flimsy structure and literally pulled it to pieces from the saddle.
He led the way to one of the tents and pulled aside the flap.
The baby's death, together with the other anxieties of the last two years, had naturally pulled her down.
He pulled his bleached moustache a moment; then removed his floppy old hat, and entered.
After a long scrutiny, this individual launched a skiff andpulled across the stream.
Because he told the little one to take it;" while others said, "Because he pulled his arm.
A satellite captured in this manner is very likely to be pulled into the Planet.
He shut his eyes while he pulled him in, and was almost sorry he had saved him.
Gray then went round and pulled at right angles across his former course, saying again, "Now, watch out!
The Inhabitant turned the boat round and pulled slowly back over the same place.
In the struggle that followed Bumper was likely to be pulled apart.
Bumper let out a squeal, and pulled the other way with all his might.
Just to make sure he had not been deceived, he pulled them right down between his two front paws, and looked at them.
Mary, as Toby pulled the rabbit from her arms, and swung him around by his hind legs.
Bumper squatted down, and pulledboth long ears toward his mother so he wouldn't miss a word.
When you were only a little snowball, we had to hang you up to dry, and thatpulled your ears out.
Hundreds of new houses of bungalow type, had taken the places of those pulled down.
At the signal, Plunger pulled the string which communicated with the basket immediately over the doorway, sending its contents showering down on the head of Newall.
Still, the vac's coming on, and one can have a good long rest after one's pulled through.
There's not a fellow in Garside who would have pulled down the old flag, even for a joke; I'm certain of that.
A stitch may be caught through the center and pulled down, or a little tuft of brown embroidery thread sewed to the center to give a more realistic look.
This will form a bag which should be pulled down through the hole made at the center of the crown top and sewed securely in place.
The material is then drawn down on the outside and pinned to the bottom of the crown; the threads are then pulled tight and firm and are fastened off.
There will be found a thread at the edge of most braids which may be pulled up to take out the extra fullness when sewed on a curve.
The thread must not be pulled too tight, or the position of the stitches may be seen; also always match the thread to the straw.
The material should be pinned down at four equal points at the edge of the crown, the threads of the other circles pulled up until the material fits the crown snugly.
Great care must be taken in handling neteen to preserve the shape, as it is very easily stretched and pulled out of shape while sewing on the edge wire.
And as soon as his back was turned, Sandy Chipmunk reached down under the table and pulled an ear of corn out of the big basket.
So one morning Farmer Green pulled a wagon from under a shed and set a big bag of wheat in it, behind the seat.
Then hepulled off his necktie and unbuttoned his collar.
So he tore open the envelope and pulled out a paper.
But when Rowdy pulled on his ear, Sandy's feet almost slipped off the limb.
I'll buy a handful," Sandy told him, as he pulled another ear of corn out of the basket.
It was a trifling disconcerting to come across him suddenly on this peaceful ranch, and they pulled Mary away as soon as they could.
I think it must have been made of the top section of Brud's pajamas, with the sleeves pulled up over his front paws, and buttoned in the back.
This is only the little chapel, and the real fight took place in a court that was away over yonder, and the walls were pulled down long ago.
But even his speech was halting and broken, and he pulled his white beard desperately, and used many despairing gestures when he could not find the right word.
He sat with his hatpulled still farther over his eyes, in a revery as deep as hers.
The little girl went into the livery stable the other day and swung onto the tail of one of those big white 'bus horses, and pulled a handful of hairs out of it.
Well," began Roberta, plaiting Mary's hair so energetically that itpulled dreadfully.
She pulled and pulled, but might almost as well have tried to set up a cannon ball.
The gluttonous magistrate had been pulled from his bed in the dark, by beings of which he could see nothing but the flaming eyes, and treated to a bath of the turtle soup that had been left simmering by the side of the kitchen fire.
He managed, however, to hold both his peace and his grasp, and pulled the doctor roughly on his legs--such as they were.
So out of the cellar they went through the passage, and Curdie into the dungeon, where he pulledup Lina, opened the door, let her out, and shut it again behind her.
Last, he got through the hole himself, and pulled away the propping stick, so that the shutter fell over the hole with a quantity of earth on the top of it.
Mrs. Keeley, busy with household matters, pulled a long face, knowing what was before her.
The good animals, however, responded to the whip, plunged forward, and finally pulled up at a house dimly outlined in the gloom.
The black coachman, however, did not lose his head, but pulledthe wheelers round also, and we soon found ourselves again on the same bank from which we had started.
Before the war we had all talked lightly of wires being cut and railway-lines pulled up, but, in truth, I do not think anyone realized what these two calamities really meant.
We drove down the street, and pulled up at the Central Hotel, where I got capital rooms and was most civilly received by the manager, an Englishman.
A round, shabby black hat was pulled over his eyes.
The quiet voice pulled the boy up just in time, before he had blurted out his news in all its crudeness.
There was no time to say more, for just then the carriage pulled up under the fine old portico.
Out of his pockets he pulled the unappetizing lumps of food he had secreted, and kneeling again, he began feeding the helpless man as if he had been a baby.
It was discovered that they had come within half a mile of shore, and the crew pulled with a will till they beached the boat.
The boat pulled steadily on awhile, then paused, for no one could be certain where she lay as regarded the shore.
The words rang in the boy's ears long after, and he pulled himself together with a sudden consciousness that he had not been much of a credit to any one for some days.
The crowd on the beach was speechless before she pulled in to shore and her worn-out occupants were disembarked.
Gliding, halting, scarcely breathing, he pulled himself along, and great beads of perspiration started on his forehead and trickled down into his eyes.
His mother pulled him out, and said, "Isaac, if you ever go there again, I will make you come out faster than you went in.
Isaac pulled the spile, and while William was drawing the liquor, he took an unobserved opportunity to hide it.
The men tried to push him aside; but he pulled out a rusty jack-knife, which he had bought of a pedlar for two-pence, and cut the rope that bound the poor lamb.
The man made a violent jerk to wrest the weapon from him, and still clinging fast hold of it he was pulledon board.
They struck his hand with their canes, and pulled the coat from his grasp.
His intimacy with animals was of a very pleasant nature, except on one occasion, when he thrust his arm into a hollow tree, in search of squirrels, and pulled out a large black snake.
She is so shamefast that she cannot brook a word;' and in fact Lilias had pulled her hood over her face, and shrunk behind him, at the first approach of the young gentleman.
And James perceived that he was bandaged as though for broken ribs, and that his right shoulder was dislocated, and no doubt had been a second time pulled out when Malcolm had grasped him by the arms.
She leant forward and pulled him suddenly backwards and he fell into the bottom of the boat.
Mrs. MacDermott had not stopped to enquire into the truth of the charge against John beyond asking if it were true that he had pulled Aggie Logan's hair and fought with Willie Logan.
It was true that he had pulled Aggie's hair much harder than he ought to have done, but he had not intended to hurt her.
Frank made no reply, and the trapper reached down with his long spear, when one after the other of the beavers were killed and pulled out on the bank.
The coat and pants were torn almost into shreds, and covered with blood, and the sole of one of his boots had been pulled off by the sharp hoofs of the deer.
Suiting the action to the word, he swung himself into the lowest branches of a small pine that stood near, and, reaching down, seized Brave by his long hair and pulled him up after him.
Archie pulled his cap down over his ears, and commenced shouting to the moose, which almost redoubled his pace, and whirled them over the snow at a rate the boys had never seen equaled by a living animal.
As the moose tore himself from his grasp, the young hunter saw him pulled to the ground by the trapper's dog, and then a mist gathered before his eyes, and he sank back on the snow insensible.
The wolves pulled off one of my boots as I was climbing up this tree.
Again he raised his gun to his shoulder, his nerves as steady as if he were about to shoot at a squirrel, and carefully sighting the head of their shaggy enemy, pulled the trigger.
The dog was off in an instant, and although the buck made an effort to run, he was speedily overtaken, and pulled down without a show of resistance.
The hunter came down the bank; depositing his rifle and knapsack carefully in the bow of the canoe, he took up one of the paddles, and we pulled from the shore.
Leaving this, Lawrence halfpulled me towards him with the loose rope.
I was at length taken out; the snow had to be cut with the axe down to my feet before I could be pulled out.
Lammer pulled on his shoes; I was the first to leave the rocks.
Lammer, who quickly recovered consciousness, pulled me out of the snow, cut the rope, and gave me a good shake.
However, this worthy spoke no words of satisfaction, but pulledever at his empty pipe.
Joseph Viennin then pulledus up, and we began the descent to Zermatt.
Lammer pulled off his shoes and I stuffed them into the knapsack, holding also our two ice-axes.
A good many loose stones had been already pulled out; this one would not come.
Dropping his pick to take a spell, Michael pulled his pipe from the belt round his trousers, relighted the ashes in its bowl, and sat on the floor of the mine.
Potch pulled a book from his pocket and sprawled across the table to read.
Armitage pulled out his cheque-book and pushed a box of cigars across the table.
Watty pulled thoughtfully on his pipe, but his little blue eyes squinted over his fat, red-grained cheeks, not in the least abashed.
He sat down, pulled a shabby leather wallet from his pocket, opened it, and took out a roll of dirty flannel; he undid the flannel carefully, and spread the stones on the table.
Usually in one of the huts a concertina was pulled lazily, and its wheezing melodies drifted through the quiet air.
As soon as I could, I pulled up, but I see Potch making off across the plain, and he didn't look like he was much hurt.
He came back into the yard, pulled a little tan-and-white nanny beside a low box on which he sat to milk, and the squirt and song of milk in the pail began.
He had pulled a small, washed oatmeal bag from his pocket, untied the string, tumbled some stones on to the outstretched palm of his hand, and held them for Potch to look at.
Michael pushed back his seat and pulledthe fastenings from his front door.
He was something of a dentist, too, honorary dentist to anyone on the Ridge who wanted a tooth pulled out; and the friend of any man, woman, or child in distress.
Whilst I was one plucked me from behind, standing on Arafat one so I turned and pulled me from behind, so behold, it was Abou Jaafer.
My indignation knew no bounds when I waspulled off by the bystanders, and told to let my enemy stand up again.
I turned, pulled me from behind, and behold, it was he and I turned and it was again.
They used to walk in single file, and on passing Burton's house would throw out their arms as if the whole file were pulled by a string.
Breaden, too, came in for Sir John's approval, and was similarly patted and pulled about.
On nearer approach we pulled up to give our steeds a blow, and, unseen ourselves, we watched the natives hunting, all unsuspicious of the near presence of beings and animals so strange in colour and form.
Sometimes the barbs are placed back to back, so that on entering a body they can be pulledneither forward nor back.
On the summit of the hill Forrest had raised a cairn of stones; this had been pulled down by the natives and subsequently replaced by Hubbe.
One plant, new to us, was growing in profusion and resembled nothing so much as bunches of grapes with the fruit pulled off.
His hair in front had been either pulled out or shaved off, giving him a very fine forehead.
