That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way!
Wilkins, after tugging agitatedly at a handkerchief that wouldn't come out of her pocket, did succeed at last in merely apparently blowing her nose with it, and then, blinking her eyes very quickly once or twice, looked at Mrs.
" Huck started sorrowfully away, and Tom stood looking after him, with a strong desire tugging at his heart to yield his pride and go along too.
" Tom was tugging at a button-hole and looking sheepish.
Fix a stuck zipper: Rather than spending hours tugging away at a zipper, simply rub candle wax, Vaseline, crayons or soap along the teeth of the zipper a few times to unstick it in seconds.
Our good days 2 Cathy is tugging my arm and I know whatever I do next will make her mad forever.
Fix a stuck zipper: Rather than spending hours tugging away at a zipper, simply rub candle wax, Vaseline, crayons or soap along the teeth of the zipper a few times to unstick it in seconds.
Films and TV shows are already effective at tugging our heartstrings or putting us on the edge of our seats.
Hassan and I stand ankle-deep in untamed grass, I am tugging on the line, the spool spinning in Hassan's calloused hands, our eyes turned up to the kite in the sky.
"Baba, sit down please," I said, tugging at his sleeve.
The tension in the air was as taut as the glass string I was tugging with my bloody hands.
The streets filled with kite fighters, jerking and tugging on their lines, squinting up to the sky, trying to gain position to cut the opponent's line.
, I reached my head through the flames and dragged the baby out by the waist-band, and tugged it along, and we fell to the floor together in a cloud of smoke; I snatched a new hold, and dragged the screaming little creature along and out at the door and around the bend of the hall, and was still tugging away, all excited and happy and proud, when the master's voice shouted: "Begone you cursed beast!
Earth tugging on the Moon's surface has slowed down the rotation of the Moon over time.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Our Wedding, 1992 I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
" And verily when he had walked about a hundred paces, he heard in the branches above him such a screaming and twittering that he looked up and saw there a swarm of birds who were tearing a piece of cloth about with their beaks and claws, and tugging and fighting as if each wanted to have it all to himself.