Towed

Examples

• Accordingly, Mr Venus slipped past Mr Wegg and towed him down. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Her father had seen the discovery being towed in the river. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Gurt pulled this in easily by the painter, and then bade Crispin get into it, so as to keep it off from the wall as it was towed along. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Pancks opened the door for him, towed him in, and retired to his own moorings in a corner. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Charlotte Dundas (Steamboat) towed canal Boats on the Clyde. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A barge was being towed towards her, and she sat down on the bank to rest and watch it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He started without delay, taking, however, only his own gunboat, the Carondelet, towed by the steamer Alps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This boat, according to Symington's report, towed two vessels, each of seventy tons burthen, a distance of nineteen miles and a half in six hours, against a strong wind. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• On the night of the 23d the powder-boat was towed in by a gunboat as near to the fort as it was safe to run. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He received an answer from some little Dock beyond, and was towed out of sight directly. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• A tug was then summoned, and the big fellow was towed one hundred and ten miles to Miami, Florida, where it was viewed by thousands of people. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• And then again: you saw that ship being towed out by a steam-tug? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• After the last load had been removed the warriors made lines fast to the craft and towed her far out into the valley in a southwesterly direction. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Some of the steamers that had got below were injured in their machinery, so that they were only useful as barges towed by those less severely injured. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Others were being towed towards Salamis by the Greeks. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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