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.

But Coupeau was becoming a continual drag on his wife.

From these nets, when at last they were landed after an hour or so of continual dragging by a dozen or twenty men and women, were taken huge baskets-full of silvery little fish sparkling in the sun, exactly like whitebait.

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.

The children below heard a sharp cry directly the cupboard door was opened; then the frantic dragging of a box on to the stairs, the creak of hingesa groan long and lingeringand then silence.

With the constant dragging in and down of the coronary cushion there is given, to the horn-secreting papillæ, studding both the lower third of its outer face and its lowermost surface, a distinct 'cant' outwards.

There are times when I long and wish after goodnessnay, when Heaven seems open to meand I resolve and strive after a perfect life; but again comes the wild, passionate dragging, as it were, into all that at other moments I most loathe and abhor, and I become no more my own master.

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.

Whatever the colonists thought of Grey's warfare with his ministers, they were heartily with him in his endeavours to quicken the slow dragging on of the military operations.

Upon learning that the Ohio was in low water he contemplated journeying by land as far as Louisville; but he embarked at Wheeling instead, and after tedious dragging "through shoals, sandbars and ripples" he reached Cincinnati late in November.

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.