The men yelled, and sprang from the thwarts as they tugged at the oars.
But the lord of the castle gave a malicious laugh, and tugged at his red beard.
All his thoughts were with those who went away; his heart tugged painfully in his breast, so powerful was his longing to be off.
And the squirrel, Adjidaumo, Frisked and chattered very gayly, Toiled and tugged with Hiawatha Till the labor was completed.
He worked the rail up and down and to and fro, took it under his arm and tugged it; but he might as well have pulled at one of the posts.
He tugged with the full strength of his arms, but there was not the play of an inch between his wrists.
Then he wrenched and tugged with all his strength, flopping strangely in the dirt.
The crocodile, having tasted blood, would not quit its hold, but tugged and wrenched the arm completely off at the elbow-joint, and went off with its prize.
The crown-line jerked andtugged even more than at the first lucky throw.
Lobore carriers, who rushed in and tugged and wrestled for their packages like wolves over a carcase.
The Phantom, failing to find any implement that would serve his purpose, inserted his fingers beneath the sill and tugged with all his strength.
Mekipiros, and he viciously tugged at the stunted monster's bristly hair with one hand, at the same time holding his other hand before his mouth to prevent him from screaming out.
And then one pulled his hair, and another tugged at his ears, and a third tweaked his nose, and everyone of them was delighted to have found a fresh object on which to wreak their furious cruelty.
The dog accompanied the guests as far as the door of his kennel, sniffing all the time at the heels of the stranger, whilst the gabbling Mekipiros tugged away at its chain.
His lips were wide open, his tongue babbled something unintelligible, while Széphalmi regarded him with amazement, and tugged away at his own hair like one possessed.
The team, playful through long confinement, tugged at the reins, and Sandy, who was at the bits, occasionally shot through space like an erratic meteor.
The horses champed their bits and tugged at the reins, impatient of the prolonged pause.
Having at the same time satisfied his curiosity and rested his arms, he grasped the handles once more and the horses pulled and tugged at the primitive implement.
He tugged again, and as he tugged he quivered at the sound of a human voice and shrank as though the familiar whip of Cordova had cut him.
In the space of a moment or two he had straightened in the chair, opened dead eyes, groaned faintly, and then tuggedagainst his bonds.
It required all his strength to resist the current which sucked, and whirled, and tugged at his body, and to climb high enough to escape its force, without overbalancing his support.
Kazan tugged at his traces, panting and whining, held back by the sledge wedged in the door.
The dogs tugged harder as the smell of home entered their nostrils.
So his feet carried him steadily westward, while the invisible hands tugged at him from behind.
Jack held on and tugged hard to draw himself up from this quicksand bath.
Putting their shoulders to the work with renewed life, the obedient oxen fairly touched the ground with their bodies as they tugged ahead with their burden.
Connie sat fascinated at the sight, as the Indian tugged playfully at the pointed ears and buried his hand in the long shimmering hair of the enormous ruff.
As Connie approached, the fox jerked and tugged at the chain in an effort to free himself from the trap, but he was fairly caught and the jaws held.
And never had Connie seen such an exhibition of insensate ferocity as the carcajo, every hair erect, teeth bared, and emitting squall-like growls of rage, tugged at the rattling trap chains in a vain effort to attack.
She took hold of an end of life here that seemed to be sticking out and tugged it, and of an end of life there that seemed to be sticking out and tugged it, and looked at them inquiringly and let them go again.
He knelt down and tugged at it, but there was no edge on which to obtain a purchase.
One Inca stood on the farther edge of the craft desperately plying an oar; the other tugged lustily at the spear-thongs.
I've brought her a present," and Hughey tugged at a small parcel that was bulging from the pocket of his overcoat.
He tugged at it with all his might; the point was deep in the flesh.
He tugged at Wilfred's arms, he butted his head under his knees; there was no resisting his impetuosity, he made him stand upright.
We tied him by the leg, but he tugged at the string till it was frayed off or came untied, and flew away.
She tugged and tugged, first one way and then another for about twenty minutes, and then went straight off to the nest.
Suddenly, as they reached the outskirts of the city, Robert tugged at Perpetua's hand and stayed her flight.
The fool shrugged his shoulders; fear and malignity tugged at the muscles of his cheeks and made them twitch.
But her indifference defied him and the thirst tugged at his throat.
She seized the rope of the great bell andtugged at it.
Certain citizens of Syracuse had seen her in the church, a beautiful white child, with flame-colored hair, who tugged at King Robert's bell and appealed for pity.
In all his reign no hand ever tugged at that cord.
Gusts of rain and wind tugged at him, flapping his bath robe.
And presently the splash of the anchor as the boat-crew tugged it over the stern, flung cascades of foam into the heat-quivering air.
Greenleaf put his hand into it and tugged at the inner sole.
It was too thin to have been made by a finger, but it might have been caused by somebody's having tuggedat a chain about her neck until it broke.
Polperro happened to press against a drunken woman; she caught him by his disordered hair and tugged at it, yelling into his face.
One moment her little fists were pummelling Gammon in the face, the next she tugged at his hair.
I began to test the strength of the bonds which held me, and gradually to loosen them slightly, as I tugged at the cords which bound my arms and strove with frantic struggles to ease the pressure of those on my legs.
He questioned me again about the papers, but I gave no sign that I even heard him; and when he kicked me and thentugged at my arms and lifted my head in the effort to rouse me, I made no sign of life.
Archie took the helm, having learned somewhat of the steering on previous excursions, and the three fishermen tugged at the oars.
Pembroke had the body carried off but the hound tugged at his chain in the direction in which it had gone, and seemed to have lost all remembrance of the track upon which he was going.
He tugged still harder, and repeatedly, until the whole tepee was in motion.
As he pulled and tugged and wrenched, he kept exclaiming with every expulsion of breath, "Beasts!
And it was he that first gripped another cub by the ear and pulled and tugged and growled through jaws tight-clenched.
He sank his tiny teeth into one of the wings and pulled and tugged sturdily.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tugged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
