They had been travelling for nine long hours, ever since the first rising of the moon, at the weary camel-drag of two and a half miles an hour, but now they brightened, both beasts and men, at the sight of the grove and the riderless horses.

Tambour!He knows it well, 'The Brabançon!'Now make it tell; Let your elbows now with a spirit wag In the outside roll and the double drag.

To rise above heredity is to rise above the downward drag of all the years.

" "Well, mother, I know I am a dreadful drag even on your patience, and I fear a burden besides, instead of a help.

Hail to the low dull rumble, dull and dead, And ponderous drag that shakes the wall.

But Coupeau was becoming a continual drag on his wife.

Hail to the low dull rumble, dull and dead, And ponderous drag that shakes the wall.

"Many a merry day have I had on the top of the regimental drag; so perhaps there's nothing of which you would not suspect me.

Hail to the low dull rumble, dull and dead, And ponderous drag that shakes the wall.

Thus we went down with a rush and our impetus carried us some way up the other side; then followed a fearfully tough drag to rise the next crest.

At Oulchy, half-way to Soissons, we halted at a railway crossing to let a long, lazy train drag out of the station.