"The rusty, weed-coated steamer rolling on the blue combers, and the little, battered tug, holding her head-to-sea.

she screamed, giving a sharp tug at the cord, which seemed to rouse him, for then he came on sharply enough.

Dropping the knife, she caught a loose edge of the canvas and with one swift tug stripped it clear of the unpainted fabric beneath.

She was a battered propeller tug and lay against the wall, with large cases of machinery lashed to her bulwarks, and a stack of coal built up beside the engine-skylights.

" With a mighty tug the Colonel dragged out the rubber blanket, flung it down on the snow, and squared himself, back to the fire, to make short work of such views.

Then he turned, in obedience to a passionate tug at his coat sleeve from Mr. Kybird.

The Guards' column had left a streak right up the field like the trail of a snail, and at the head of it the blue coats were lying heaped upon the red ones where that fierce tug had been before they took their backward step.

A fast tug sails in the morning.

Oh! if only the friendly tug would come in sight amidst the foam-crested waves!

A fussy tug took the Celestine the last stage of her journey, and early afternoon found her warped in to the wharf where Ken had seen her on the eve of her departure.

Paul withdrew his gloves and submitted to the countess' futile tugs at his fur coat.

" He held the parcel close to his bosom, and went on, still praising Blossy,this innocent old gentleman,heedless of Angy's gentle tug at his coat-tail; while Blossy buried her absurdly lovely old face in the pink flush of a wild-rose spray, and the other old ladies stared from him to her, their faces growing hard and cold.

Dan" (with an impatient tug at his sleeve), "d'ye hear what I'm tellin' you?

No one could suppose that in accordance with instructions received from the Count d'Artigas and Engineer Serko this submarine machine, which was destined to act as the invisible tug of the schooner, would not emerge till it had gone several miles beyond the rendezvous.

Here, too, are old acquaintances from the bay of New York,the "Yankee," a lively tug,the "Harriet Lane," coquettish and plucky,the "Catiline," ready to reverse her name and put down conspiracy.

Planks, however, were eventually placed so as to enable us to descend from our lofty "tug" into a ship at anchor, from that into another, from that again into a third, and from that at length on terra firma.

No one came ashore; the malevolent tug went out and turned back the landing party which was ready to leave the ship's side.

The mere tug of the tiller beneath my hand filled me with a kind of fierce delight, while the splash of the water as it rippled past the sides of the boat seemed to me the bravest and sweetest music I had ever heard.

Then, with a nervous tug at the bell, he disappeared in the house, leaving the cloak and bag in the cab.

It came at lasta wretched little vessel, rather smaller than the smallest of the noisy tugs that puff and paddle on our American riversand the wet, sick, unsheltered passengers were gradually transferred to the deck of the ship.

In another moment the ship was following in the wake of this novel tug!

But here a mean Observe, nor the large hound prefer, of size Gigantic; he in the thick-woven covert Painfully tugs, or in the thorny brake Torn and embarrassed bleeds: but if too small, 260 The pigmy brood in every furrow swims; Moiled in the clogging clay, panting they lag Behind inglorious; or else shivering creep Benumbed and faint beneath the sheltering thorn.

A few persistent tugs and twists and it turned in his grasp.

" "After the doubter came a good-natured man who disliked churches in general, and therefore enjoyed the fun of seeing a preacher tug and puff in the heavy work of demolition, for the many-tongued rumor by this time had noised it all around Lexington that the new preacher was tearing down the Baptist meeting-house.

"Mayhap the chain won't stand sich tugs long.