Raynor came up to Jack as he stood gazing down at the puffing tugswhich were helping the marine monster clear.
Through the curtain of mist boomed the hoarse voices of tugs and ferryboats as they played a marine game of blind man’s buff in the fog.
Round about it was an unbroken ring of docks, with ferry-boats and tugsdarting everywhere, and vessels which had come from every port in the world, emptying their cargoes into the huge maw of the Metropolis.
Nay, the idea of being misled suffused her with languor; for then the battle would be over and she a happy weed of the sea no longer suffering those tugs at the roots, but leaving it to the sea to heave and contend.
Yes, you have luck, you have luck," Willoughby addressed him, still clutching Crossjay and treating his tugs to get loose as an invitation to caresses.
These tugs bring in the catches of dozens of smaller boats manned by fishermen who are toiling out beyond the heads, and up the two great rivers.
To see that we had to go along the docks until we came to the Broadway wharf where Paladini, the head of the fish trust, unloads his tugs of their tons and tons of fish.
After the tugs leave, the gates are closed, and the water in the dry-dock is pumped out, leaving the boat high and dry.
If tugs are constructed according to the design outlined above, the model boat builder will also desire to have something that the tug can haul.
At that hour, the railroad refuses to accept any more freight for the day, car-doors are closed and sealed with rapidity; in a short time the long and clumsy floats are being hauled by pert little tugs toward Harsemus or Greenville.
In such a fleet, eliminating of course the ferry-boats which have their own peculiar uses, the tugs are almost the sole motive power.
When the pert and busy little tugs have pushed and pulled and bunted the floats all into position, the platforms are quickly connected by gangways, canvas-covered against the stress of hard weather.
As the car tugs around Capitol Hill the young one is more demoniac than ever, and the flushed and perspiring mother is just ready to burst into tears with weariness and vexation.
The telephone to the mainland was immediately put to good use, and a message sent to a salvage company that would bring a couple of strong sea-going tugs to the scene inside of ten hours.
There was a steamer aground, but only the passengers would come ashore, the captain and crew remaining on board waiting for the tugs to arrive," replied Darry.
The steamer being head on, was not in as bad a condition as might otherwise have been the case; and as the storm promised to be short-lived, the commander had decided to try and await the coming of tugs from the city to drag his vessel off.
One of his chief joys was the Chicago river, its black, mucky water churned by puffing tugs and its banks lined by great red grain elevators and black coal chutes and yellow lumber yards.
Caldwell, Meteor, and a very large number of others, besides a great many first-class steam tugs plying on Detroit river.
He is interested in propellers on the lakes, and has two tugs and three dredges in this harbor.
Well, this is a big port, you know, and there are always tugs knocking about with steam up, on the off-chance of their services being required.
These tugs never stop except to coal and attach the barges, already loaded before their arrival at a city, and proceed with great despatch.
This transportation is cheap, because the tugs require less than one-fourth the expense for running and management required by the steamboats.
The tugs plying on the Minnesota River carry with good speed barges containing thirty thousand bushels of wheat, and the freight of a single trip would fill more than eighty railroad-cars.
There must be some allowance for the coal used by the tugs and steam launches.
A further charge would be due to the provision of tugs or steam launches, and perhaps lighters.
Salaries and wages of staff, including persons employed in tugs and steam launches, would reach quite £2500 a year.
A dull, gnawing pain tugs at his heart as a forecast of the future runs darkly through him, but with a great effort he thrusts it aside; he will live in the present, and sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Allen's hands trembled with excitement, and he could hardly work his tackle for fear of losing the prize, as he felt the series of jerks and tugs as if something powerful was kicking at the end.
You're quite safe," says her escort, noting the scared look in her face, as the old horse tugs at his bridle and snorts and plunges a little.
A heap of filings easily dispersed with his claws; next, a stone lid which he need not even break into fragments: it comes undone in one piece; it is removed from its frame with a few pushes of the forehead, a few tugs of the claws.
As soon as the danger was known all available tugs at Devonport Dockyard were despatched with a view to taking off, if necessary, the hundreds of boys who were on board.
Some of them are heavy sea-going tugs and others are yachts.
The government has recently purchased numerous tugs and yachts not accounted for in the table: FIRST RATE.
His only fear had been that the Crusoe men would succeed in getting out of the harbor, and making good their escape before the tugs could get ready to start in pursuit; but now he was satisfied that the chase would soon be over.
It was dark in the shadow of the bluffs, and if there were any tugs between him and the entrance to the bay, he hoped to run by them unnoticed.
It isn't safe to go around the island again, for those tugs have raised steam by this time, and, whatever we do, we must keep away from them.
Tommy aint sailor enough to take us through a bay twenty-five miles long, with tugs runnin' up an' down it all the time lookin' fur us.
The young tars growled lustily, and looked toward the captain, who stood with his hands behind his back, dividing his attention between the tugs and the schooner.
While he paced up and down the deck he thought more of the passengers and their money than he did of the tugs that might at any moment come steaming up the creek.
It soon became known throughout the village that the yacht and two of the tugs had returned with the robbers and some of the Crusoe men, and the people wanted to hear all the particulars.
He can't escape, for all the tugs in the harbor will be after him as soon as they can raise steam; but I wish it might be our good fortune to capture him, alone and unaided.
The tugs will never come in here after us, for it is too near the village.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tugs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
