49 Verbs to Use for the Word pulling

It gave the Doctor such a pull over me as nothing else could.

We gave him three cheers, and when the ambulance came up we took a pull at the champagne in honor of the Grand Duke's success.

At length he begins to feel our steady pull, and inch by inch, struggling demoniacally, he nears the bank.

"I rather think we are all right now, but we've got a hard pull ahead of us.

Traction N. traction; drawing &c v.; draught, pull, haul; rake; a long pull a strong pull and a pull all together; towage^, haulage.

He still struggled, wallowing feebly, vainly resisting the downward pull of the sand.

Your engine will not appear to be making any effort, either, in making the pull.

Besides, without being a sentimental sort of beggar, I don't lose sight of the fact that you helped pull me out of a hole when I sure needed a pull.

And so, hauling with great steadiness, we brought the monster near to the edge of the hill, and there, at a wave from the bo'sun, stayed our pulling.

The villains, these exploits not dull in, Incontinently fell a pulling.

A moment later he felt a great pulling and tugging at his coat tails.

I was wet to the skin and in no amiable humor; and not being able to find bell-pull or knocker, or even a door, I belabored the side of the house with my heavy walking-stick.

At 6.30 found darkness suddenly arrived; it was very difficult to see anythingwe got down on the sea ice, very heavy pulling, but plodded on for some hours; at 10 arrived close under little Razor Back Island, and not being able to see anything ahead, decided to camp and got to sleep at 11.30 in no very comfortable circumstances.

We won't mind de haul an' pull, While dem pickny belly full.

"It's beastly stupid but I am having a hard pull at my studies.

Then, little by little, he increased his pull until all the strength of leg muscles, back, and arms was brought to bear.

Only once in the entire half-year had he said a lesson to the dreadful master himself, and of course it was a ruinous failure, involving some tremendous pulls of Eric's hair, and making him tremble like a leaf.

Possibly they have reason, for while adding a new cloister, a new gateway and a new hall to the existing school buildings, it involves the pulling down of the Quingentenary Memorial Building, erected some twenty years ago, and of some old houses in Kingsgate Street.

For Cordova rode with legs braced, keeping a tight pull that bent the head of Alcatraz down.

Captain Wallingford, please lend us a pull.

Well, now, damn yer eyes! lay too an' pull.

"If you could manage, ma'am, to draw up your knee an inch or soor if you wouldn' mind my takin' a pull" "Not at all," said Mrs. Lobb.

I guessed this meant a hard pull, and guessed right.

When I sewed the leather back on, it never showed, but the minute he struck his gait they broke with him and he begin to miss his pull.

Fodder, obeying the pull upon the rein, sweeped down upon O'Brallaghan's shop, and in the midst of the cries of babies, the barking of dogs, and the shrill screams of elderly ladies, entered the broad door of the clothes-warehouse, and thrust his nose into Mr. O'Brallaghan's face, just as that gentleman was cutting out the sixth pair of pantaloons for himself, in which he was to personate St. Michael.

49 Verbs to Use for the Word  pulling