Gradually its head came lower and lower down, until at last it made a sudden peck at a metal button on his jacket, and gave such a vigorous tug at it that Martin was almost lifted off the ground.

But as he looked at his friend, all the supple strength stricken out of him, weak and helpless as a sick child, he felt a queer tug at the heart.

"They sent out two first-class tugs and a number of highly-paid men; they ought to have hired negro laborers at the spot.

It looked as if she were coming on board the tug, and Lister jumped through and slammed the iron door.

It will not do to sing one of those light songs when death and you are having the last tug.

The junior partner was keen to help, and going with her to a coaling office, offered to charter a powerful Spanish tug the company had recently bought.

He had not shaved for long, and fresh water was scarce on board the tug.

"Tell him it wasn't a practised writer, You guessed, from the way the sentence toiled; You could hear the bodice tug, behind you, As if it held but the might of a child; You almost pitied it, you, it worked so.

"We got the word from Bloomsbury, and your father hired this tug right away, Andy Bird, to follow you out on the lake, if so be you kept after the rascals," said a tall gentleman with a white mustache, who, they afterwards learned, was the mayor of the city on the lake shore.

It was a moment or two before he could satisfy his curiosity, and then a bright beam illuminated the tug and angry water.

Later on, General Hancock impressed all the harbor tugs into service; and, by their aid, before the specified period had elapsed, not a single ship floating a foreign flag remained in New York Harbor.

Tilda's eyes never left the tug; but the boy kept intermittent watch only, being busy writing with the stump of a pencil on a scrap of paper he had spread on the gritty concrete.

The Laurada, a 900-ton steamer, was reported by the Spanish Legation as having sailed on May 9, meeting three tugs and two lighters, off the coast, from which were transferred men and arms.

"We are well out of that," and he glanced back toward the closed and water-tight lock gates which had so nearly nipped the tug.

The Cologne Central Towing Company (Central Actien-Gesellschaft für Tauerei und Schleppschifffahrt), by whom the wire rope towage on the Rhine is now carried on, was formed in 1876, by an amalgamation of the Rührorter und Mulheimer Dampfschleppshifffahrt Gesellschaft and the Central Actien-Gesellschaft fur Tauerei, and in 1877 it owned eight wire rope tugs (which it still owns) and seventeen paddle tugs.

I guess if they and me pulled against Corney Delaney we could get him over the line all right," one of the boys' favourite pastimes being to play tug-of-war with the goat, the rope being fastened to its horns, but Corney was always conqueror.

It would be easy enough to starve the gang out of Back Cup, by preventing the tug from supplying them with provisions.

The wide expanse of rolling, slapping water was busy with innumerable harbor craft, crowded ferries, puffing tugs, each wafting its plume of smoke and white steam; but from those waters rose tier after tier of square-set skyscrapers climbing in an irregular hill to the thin peak of the highest tower.

As we backed out, pulled up tugs, and got started down the river, my thrills increased, until we passed the Statue of Libertyand then I couldn't tell how I felt.

The Indian messenger had disappeared, and, presumably, had reached the tug, and was giving the message for help.

Such ebullient expressions were taken at face value by thousands of the unwary; and other thousands of the more cautious followed in the trek when personal inquiries had reinforced the tug of the west.

They ran the tug across the bay to Elk Creek, and upon arriving there they beached the tug on the north side, followed a stream that Harriett Tubman had told them about.

"Look now!" For the dog had sprung upon the parapet and stood there, with neck extended and body quivering as he saluted the on-coming tug.

Hot and scratchedat least I am glad that in their death-pain they were able to scratch hershe still tugs and mauls.

" "After the doubter came a good-natured man who disliked churches in general, and therefore enjoyed the fun of seeing a preacher tug and puff in the heavy work of demolition, for the many-tongued rumor by this time had noised it all around Lexington that the new preacher was tearing down the Baptist meeting-house.