Terrier felt the drag of the hulk astern, and he wanted to see how she was towing.

"On the whole, however, I daresay you won't find the time drag so very much.

The waitress took a drag from her cigarette.

'Then how do you know it was so large?' 'Because,' said the man, 'it killed the biggest buffalo in my herd, and the poor brute only gave one groan.' George once tracked a tiger, following up the drag of a bullock that he had carried off.

That they need the stimulus of excitement and can't endure the drag of routine.

He "went a dragging for Sturgeon" frequently, and sometimes "catch'd one" and sometimes "catch'd none."

I don't envy the men who have to handle the drags.

Instead, however, of lying beam on to the big sea, she now headed up into them, the "drag," as it is sometimes called, serving to keep her bow swung up to the threatening combers.

Endowed with remarkable powers of scent, he will hunt a drag with keen intelligence.

A varying amount of resistance or tension on the bobbin is required in virtue of the varying size of the partially-filled bobbin, and this is obtained by placing the temper-band successively in different groves in the builder so that it will embrace a gradually increasing arc of the spinning bobbin, and thus impart a heavier drag or tension.

Then she saw that Thorn had slipped farther back in order to increase the drag of his legs.

At Oulchy, half-way to Soissons, we halted at a railway crossing to let a long, lazy train drag out of the station.

His friends, the men who shot over his Scotch moor, and filled the spare rooms in his villa at Cannes, and loaded his drag for Sandown or Epsom, and sponged upon him all the year round, talked of him as 'an inoffensive old party,' 'a cheery soul,' 'a genial old boy,' and in like terms of approval.

The friction of a pen on paper would have proved too great a drag on so delicate an instrument, and so a tiny jet of ink from the siphon was substituted.

*arma* f. arm, weapon *armar* lay, set up (as a plot) *armatoste* m. clumsy article *arrancar* snatch, pull *arrastrar* drag, drag out, draw *arrebatar* carry off, snatch; *se* be led away; rush *arredrar* terrify; *se* become terrified *arreglar* arrange *arreglo* m. arrangement, settlement

Whatever the colonists thought of Grey's warfare with his ministers, they were heartily with him in his endeavours to quicken the slow dragging on of the military operations.

What did the prince do?" "He was tooling his own drag, and he had a lady with him on the box.

Persecution thenceforward followed its course without the king putting himself to the trouble of applying the drag for anybody; his sister Marguerite alone continued to protect, timidly and dejectedly, those of her friends amongst the reformers whom she could help or to whom she could offer an asylum in Bearn without embroiling herself with the king, her brother, and with the Parliaments.

" "We shan't want much dragging," returned Tommy.

We were hurried along at a cruel pace, so that I had often to run to avoid the dragging at my wrists, and behind us bumped the cart full of wailful women.

"Well, girls, what is your news?" "We were out to-day on the Brompton Road," said the eldest, "and there came up Prince Chitakov's drag with four roans.

He drew up his drag, and one of the hooks held a piece of a black silk cape.