Let me pull down the bed.

In fact, he had wondered whether he would be sent to pull down the bridge and rebuild it with steel.

The single deerhound could not pull down the quarry which he had so furiously assailed.

The raven will eat most things that come his way,eggs and young of ground-nesting birds, seeds even, lizards and grasshoppers, which he catches cleverly; and whatever he is about, let a coyote trot never so softly by, the raven flaps up and after; for whatever the coyote can pull down or nose out is meat also for the carrion crow.

It is easier to pull down than to build.

Gravitation would presently pull down my shoulders, my face would flaunt "the wrinkled spoils of age", my voice would waver ominously, and I should forfeit the dignities befitting even this decay by still playing childish games of belief with some foolish dog.

"Yes." "Is this your carriage?" "Yes." "Get in at once, and pull down the blinds.

"There is no harm, is there, in training a dog to pull down a stuffed figure?

{49} Somebody, perhaps, will tell me that the field is now cleansed and weeded, that the briars and brambles are cut up, the rubbish cleared off, and the rough path made smooth; that I ought therefore to build something myself, to show that I not only can pull down the structures of others, but am able to raise up and invent a work truly great and excellent, which nobody could find fault with, nor Momus himself turn into ridicule.

He did not pull down the shade before he turned back to the fire, perhaps because no one could possibly look in.

He would not pull down the venerable monuments of religious zeal, but he would add to them.

There is an old expression, to "pull down a side," i.e. to ruin one's partner (by bad play); and I am inclined to think that to "pull at a rest" in primero meant to try to pull down (beat, go beyond) the player who was standing on his cards.

The loosened stones flew back into their places, and finally none could be induced to make the attempt to pull down the Kaaba.

Yes, later, when we have the time; we must now pull down the Column Vendôme and the Chapelle Expiatoire.

"Further, at the solicitation of my enemies, the Nawab sent people to pull down the earthworks I had erected.

It is defaced by several marks and slight injuries, which are ascribed to the Mongolians, who, when they conquered Delhi, attempted in their destructive rage to pull down these columns; but they stood too firmly, and all their exertions were insufficient to destroy any of the inscriptions on them.

But if we pull down some dusty old books from the bookshelf, if we turn over some old mildewed leaves, and if in that obscurity and decay we find some faint traces of a tale about a complete man, such a man as is walking on the pavement outside, we suddenly pull a long face, and we call it the coarse morals of a bygone age.

They pull down the scaffolding from the half-finished edifice; they point to the flying dust, the falling bricks, the comfortless rooms, the frightful irregularity of the whole appearance; and then ask in scorn where the promised splendour and comfort are to be found?

Pull down to New Orleans.

Pull down the fence and give them a chance to charge the bridge!"

The preacher would say 'Pull down de line and let de spirit be a witnes, workin' fer faith in de future frum on high.'

[Conolly], intending to pull down the house and rebuild it.

Pull down that window, Boris.

Rash stranger, thus to pull down thy own fate!

Well, there is no danger from a flood, but, to make all things more than safe, I will pull down this handle, if it will come.