Pulling

Examples

• Keep it lightly firm but not pulling until thou pullest. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• A party that tried to answer every conflicting interest would stand still because people were pulling in so many different directions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Such an arrangement of wire is known as a helix or solenoid, and is capable of lifting or pulling larger and more numerous filings and even good-sized pieces of iron, such as tacks. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I thank you, said the young man, rising and pulling on his overcoat. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• This consisted of mechanical means for throwing the shuttle across the web by a sudden jerk of a bar--one at each side--operated by pulling a cord. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Three were the oval Mill bomb type, serrated, heavy iron with a spring level held down in position by a cotter pin with pulling rig attached. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Now, Priest, said, the Knight, pulling off his gauntlet, if I had vantage on my head, I will have none on my hand--stand fast as a true man. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Her mother was a Montmorency, cried out the old lady, pulling at the bell with all her might. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• No, no,' replied Mr. John Smauker, pulling forth the fox's head, and taking a gentlemanly pinch. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• There were some twenty men running hither and thither about the deck, pulling and hauling on ropes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• No, nothing that I knows on,' replied the man, pulling on his gloves. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Then he cut off the other braid but without pulling on it and the razor made a small cut on my ear and I saw blood come from it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It was of no use a little man like Nathaniel Pipkin pulling the door inwards, when a great strong fellow like old Lobbs was pulling it outwards. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Let me see; he'll be back in twenty minutes, at the longest,' said Mr. Brownlow, pulling out his watch, and placing it on the table. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• She afterwards continued her work, whilst the young man went into the garden, and appeared busily employed in digging and pulling up roots. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.

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