The black people were left on board the Pearl, which the steamer took in tow, and then proceeded up the river.

"It looks very much like it, unless an ocean steamer comes along and gives us a tow.

Now commenced a tow, dead to windward, it being known that a fish, when struck, seldom runs at first in any other direction.

Suppose you lose a nut, and your pedal comes off; what you going to doget a tow? Barlow.

His hair is of flame fizzing over his head, As likewise his heard and eye-lashes; His drink's "low-test naphtha," his nag, it is said, Eats flaming tow soaked in combustibles dread, Which hot from the manger he gnashes.

"She feels the under-tow, Stephen," he said, in a voice so compressed as to seem to come out of the depths of his chest, "and is breasted up to windward!"

"Fear nothing," called out Griffin, in Italian"we intend to offer you a tow.

A series of windmills,a group of inflated balloons,a flock of geese all asleep on one leg,a circle of ballet-dancers, just poised to begin,a band of patriots just kneeling to take an oath upon their country's altar,a senate of tailors,a file of soldiers,a whole parish of Shaker worshippers,a Japanese embassy performing Ko-tow: these all in turn come like shadows,so depart.

This arrangement saved a tow of some five-and-twenty miles, and often prevented a loss of the fish, as sometimes occurred in the outside passage, by having it blown on an iron-bound coast.

" "Looks like I'll have to go back to the school garage and get 'em to send us a tow," he announced pleasantly.

Shut your eyes, and the inward vision sees once more the long line of sandy and shingly beaches, the green curving-up of the surges tipped with dazzling foam,sees the motionless and blackened timbers of the wreck on the shore, the white wings dipping and turning along the combing tops of the waves racing in upon the sands,sees the dry tufted beach-grass, and the wet, shining, compact slope down which slides swiftly the under-tow.

"And then outspoke a brownie, With a long beard on his chin; 'I have spun up all the tow,' said he, '

47. is stiff in this tenet, 'tis a corporeal fire tow, cap.

I was pretty well "done," and had to accept a tow from the shikari, and hand in hand we pressed up that accursed hill until, at seven o'clock, the sun set and it began to grow dusk.

I can't quite make out whether the skipper of this old tub thinks his boats can make the shore or whether he wants a tow.

As we left the land, the breeze increased; the Severn cast off her tow, and our boats returned on board: at 25 minutes past eleven we fired our last gun, and the cannonade was succeeded by a storm of thunder and lightning.