36 adverbs to describe how to tugs

She bowed her head, and tugged more violently than ever at the corner of her handkerchief.

Gloria tried to aim, pulled the trigger, tugging frantically.

Mr. Thomasson cried peremptorily, and waving his lanthorn again, startled the horses; which plunged away wildly, the man tugging vainly at the reins.

The old punt was off in a shake, the tattered sail up, skipper Noel lounging in the stern, like an old salt, with the steering oar, while the crew, forgetting her nipped finger, tugged valiantly at the main-sheet.

I yelled, and the next moment I was tugging furiously across the intervening space with the loose tow rope trailing behind me.

There, in a desolate, rock-bound refuge on the Newfoundland coast, the Wild Duck swung to her anchor, veering nervously in the tide rip, tugging impatiently and clanking her chains as if eager to be out again in the turmoil.

As Joel came nearer, one boy, bolder than the others, ran forward and tugged sharply at the victim's ragged gray coat.

The team they were driving, a mouse-coloured broncho and a mate a shade darker, were restless after three days of enforced inactivity and tugged at the bit mightily.

There was a troubled look in her brown eyes; she tugged nervously at her gloves to get them off.

he said, tugging wildly at his bit of string; "is it nonsense to affirm that if a man wants to make sure that his victim shall not escape, he does not usually wind rope 'loosely' round his figure, nor does he throw a wool shawl lightly round his mouth.

He continued to tug grimly at the whip-lash.

His large, wondering, stupid eyes never ceased gazing at the monster as it tugged heavily at the stake which held it.

" But Katie was hysterically tugging at the neck of her gown.

Another boat is being tugged laboriously up the rapids, a mule taking the first place at the end of the rope.

He poised his quirt and tugged his hat lower over his eyes.

Slowly she turned and faced me, her slender fingers tugging aimlessly at her handkerchief.

After making sure which was the right side of the fence, and placing himself on it, he tugged painfully at his starved red beard, and made an elaborate address ending in a parallel,the idea of the complete Bible being in two volumes, the Old and New Testament, each being so necessary to the other, and so inseparable, that they were only comparable to twins!

When you are about halfway down and the four horses are running even and tugging pleasantly at the reins, and you are happy enough to sing your favorite song, which begins, "Hey, ole Bill!

His fingers, clasped about his knees, tugged restlessly at each other.

" The young man went out, thoughtfully tugging at his gloves.

With every nerve flashing lightning, I pulled and tugged most thrillingly, but in vain.

Waring tugged the cinchas tight and mounted.

" On we sped, past the huge lumbering motorbuses, which terrified the poor animal who tugged vehemently at her string, at times almost choking herself.

The blood trails were leading him away toward the game scent, and he tugged viciously at the babeesh that held him captive, gnawing at it vainly, like an angry dog, forgetting what experience had taught him many times before.

His fingers tugged more and more vigorously at the leather.

36 adverbs to describe how to  tugs  - Adverbs for  tugs