More, I saw, with a singular feeling of anger and sorrow, that a hand which came over my shoulder was tugging hard at the ribbon in the attempt to remove it.
Jonathan Radbourne stood before the cold fireplace, tugging with both hands at his whiskers.
Aunt Clara found her standing where he had left her, staring blankly at the door, unmindful of the little David tugging at her dress.
Both of us knew that this was no time for argument, and she began tugging at my belt like a wild thing, bracing herself to keep me back and showing no disposition to obey.
Yet if my eyes required a subterfuge my heart did not, and it thrilled as if some wild musicians were tugging at its strings making them sound impassioned harmonies.
Both sexes generally take part in the contest, the men tugging at one end of the rope and the women at the other, and sometimes the weaker party applies for help to persons of the same sex in a neighbouring village.
While they are tugging away, a man suddenly cuts the rope and the women fall down.
The mode in which this salutary result follows from tugging at a rope is explained by the Burmese doctrine of nats or spirits who cause rain.
Presently he became aware of some one speaking to him, tugging at his elbow.
When she opened them again they were among trees and fields, while the goaded machine hurled itself forward in tugging leaps.
A mirror caught her reflection and she gazed with a queer tugging sensation of the incongruities of time.
John Camblin, a millionnaire and nearly eighty years of age, head of the largest East India house on the wharves, his hat and wig gone, his coat split from the collar to the tails, was tugging at an anchor ten men could not have moved.
Oliver had slipped from his seat and was tugging at his hair trunk.
The captain was of a similar size and build with Bull Bengoff, and it was somewhat like tugging at an enormous animated hogshead to get him moving withal.
When he had finished perusing the document he laid it face downward upon the desk and leaned back in his chair, tugging at his wiry, black beard, and knitting his fierce brows deeply.
This move was not accomplished without a considerable effort upon the hunchback's part, for the spirited animal pricked up its ears, champed its bit, and hung back on the bridle at sight of the apparition tugging at the other end.
She began pulling Mavriky Nikolaevitch up with all her might, tugging at his elbows with both hands.
In his inexperience he was continually with his left hand tugging at the reins, which made the horse toss his head and show an inclination to rear.
I heard a great shout outside, and from a window which now commanded a view of the road I saw our team of six horses, with the drivers pulling and tugging at the two they rode, madly running away at the top of their speed.
And yet, with all this, there was a strange unfamiliar tugging at her heart to confess herself willing to obey.
The onlookers had not yet recovered from their first consternation; in fact they were still fumbling and tugging at whatever weapons they carried when Sebastian came toward them, brandishing the blade on high.
She wrung her hands, she rocked herself from side to side, she kissed the twins' nightgowns, tugging at them convulsively.
He wished to tell her the good news, but that did not account for the uneasy feeling that possessed him, tugging at his ordinarily steady nerves.
The soft, white arms wound about his neck, tugging fingers pulled playfully at his hair and she smiled at him.
The red lipped smile was again tugging at her full mouth.
She moved away from him, rolling, tugging at him to respond, but he needed no encouragement.
Angry discontent with himself istugging at his nerves.
The very turf was aglow; two of the horses had broken loose and were careering madly about; the others were tugging wildly at their lariats.
There was something tugging at his heartstrings, and presently he turned slowly, painfully again.
Plume, tugging at the strap of a dressing case and laying it open on the broad window-seat.
Schultz kicked off his boot and shook it upside down, and, while he was tugging at it again, they both heard a sort of gurgling, gasping cry out on the mesa.
He began tugging at its lower end, and succeeded in pulling it far enough out to admit of their crowding through the opening.
This represented a rooster, and had been bent in two by the tugging airship.
Tugging mightily, he managed to dump the sea-anchor over.
The "ruckle-ruckle" of the blocks sounded at quick intervals and indicated haste; there was a suggestion of vicious determination on the part of the men who were tugging at the halyards.
It was a dizzy height, and the task tried his spirit, for the sail was heavy, and he found it difficult to keep his balance while he was tugging at the folds of the canvas.
He sat astride a limb tuggingsavagely at his whiskers.
Tad meanwhile was dancing here and there, jerking on the rope, tugging and trying his best to pull his captive down to all fours.
The six sources of all her trouble were tugging hungrily at her breasts, looking as innocent and harmless as downy puffs, having already been licked and groomed into tidiness by their forgiving mother.
