20 collocations for yanking

"You stop that cussin'," resumed Racey, seizing the bridle short and yanking the bouncing horse to a standstill with a swerve and a jerk that almost unseated its rider.

He t-t-told me he knew he c-c-could yank a m-m-mess of fine trout out of that c-c-creek, where it looked so s-s-shallow just back there.

" This caution was uttered just in time, for Horace was in the very act of yanking the youthful commander by the foot when his father spoke.

Every minute or two he pulled the chain and yanked the furnace door open to throw in the coal, shutting the door again after each shovelful, to keep the fire hot.

Yesterday he read me Leith's description of stone hamungas and things that are supposed to have been built before Julius Caesar invaded Britain, and he's pop-eyed with joy as he thinks how he'll yank Fame by the tail when he gets on the ground and snapshots the affairs.

He came out red in the face, jumped on his engine, and yanked the Flyer down the yards forty miles an hour.

He yanked out his gun and started to pull a drop on old Jack's head.

So the virtuous householder was rather more than unceremonious about yanking the princely housebreaker inside and lending him a foot to accelerate his return to the living-room; where Victor brought up, on all-fours again, in almost precisely the spot from which he had risen.

He t-t-told me he knew he c-c-could yank a m-m-mess of fine trout out of that c-c-creek, where it looked so s-s-shallow just back there.

Casey went staggering to the Ford, dumped the canvas rolls in and yanked Ole up by the collar, propelling him into the tonneau.

He yanked a prisoner away from the sheriff one day, and the next day he's took for murder.

I really don't know what to call it except my deplorable omission in failing to be born a ladyhas seemed to you to yank the very last rag off the gooseberry-bush?" He scoffed.

He yanked this ten-inch rainbow right out.

"I, being a girl of some spirit and pride, just naturally yanked Mr. Ring off and threw it at him.

"He yanked the shoes off his horse before he left.

"And I even see the place where we yanked Steve here out of that sand.

So the chickens beset him most cruelly behind, And yanked his whole tail out together; The peacocks attacked him madly before, And pulled out each chicken feather.

Charming Billy yanked his pack-pony awake and into a shuffling trot over the trail, resettled his hat on his head, sagged his shoulders again and went back to crooning his ditty.

" "You're welcome," said Racey, hospitably yanking his trousers from the only chair the room possessed.

"Say, you don't want to let the fellows outside see you looking like that," he remarked, when Jack had yanked a horn comb through his red-brown mop of hair as if he were hoeing corn.

20 collocations for  yanking