It is stronger than its enemy, and yet the steady pull of hundreds of suckers is more than it can stand, and the shells, after a time, begin to gape a little.

" It was about a hundred yards to the mouth of the creek, and with the tide running hard against us it was quite a stiff little pull.

Raoul isn't an expert; so at the moment he fitted the key into the lock of the safe to open the door, I gave a sly little pull, and broke the thread, making the pearls roll everywhere about the floor.

With a mighty pull Kazan was at her side, and his cold muzzle touched her face as she drew herself to her feet.

If he wants to be pulled up, be gives the life-line four sharp pulls.

Martin, who was in the leading boat with me, by a few vigorous pulls at the oar, rounded the point between us and the spot where we had heard the plunge, and there, not ten rods from the shore, making for the mainland, was the game which, of all others, we most desired to see.

That was enough, for Diablo had learned to rein over the neck and stop at the slightest pull of the reins.

He reined up his horse with a violent pull, straightened his shoulders so that he appeared six inches taller, looked steadily at me with a strange, mixed expression of anger and astonishment, and cried out, "Murder her?

He still struggled, wallowing feebly, vainly resisting the downward pull of the sand.

Each has been married before to an unloved mate who has conveniently died, leaving them both free to yield to the gentle pull of long-past youthful attachment.

The Edge Vine should have thorns, (with a long tremendous pull for deep roots, she has it up.

And at this moment, I conceive it to be finally torn directly from its oblique course, by the gravitational pull of the immense star.

The horse gave an awful pull, and landed his master on safe ground.

Then there rose a peculiar cry or yodel, all the fishermen uttering it together, and as soon as it ceased we gave our united, mighty pull.

A little discreet wire pulling and Esther was once more established as school mistress of District Number Fifteen.

A few more steep pulls, over deep beds of snow and patches of barren stone, and

She turned into the lane leading to her house, walking at a smart pace, with her dress trailing and catching on the brambles, from which with a backward sweep of the hand and a rough pull she would twitch it clear.

My experience for several winters with beginners is that the soles of most English boots buckle as soon as they are subjected to the tight pull of a leather binding.

He rang the bell with a decisive pull, and, as he did so, glanced at the strange man, who nodded approvingly at him.

The sheriff's assistants gave the rope a sudden pull, and in an instant the choking, strangling creature soared up in the air, gasping for breath with the water running in streams from her garments.

What he saw there determined his course of action; so, setting the tumbler upon the ground, he raised the pitcher with both hands to his lips and gave a hearty pull, after which he went on, giving less and less, until he was called to have the pitcher replenished.

In side lever engines, with the starting bar hanging from the top of the diagonal stay, as is a very common arrangement, the valve might be wrought by leading a rope from the side lever of the other engine through blocks so as to give a horizontal pull to the hanging starting bar, and the bar could be brought back by a weight.

Then the boat was rowed in, the occupants panting with their hurried pull from the boathouse, and Joel clambered aboard, disdaining the proffered help of West and others, and Clausen was lifted to a seat in the bow.

After a desperate bout of ineffectual pulling, the dogs with one mind stopped again, and lay down in their bloody tracks.

" "Owing to certain insidious wire-pulling I'm forced to choose Miss Marian Elliott," said Uncle Charley, pinching his daughter's ear.