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Dragging herself wearily to the little but by the river, she knocked, and waited. [11]

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Summer came again, with its anniversaries and its dragging, interminable weeks: demoralizing summer, when Mrs. Mayo quite frankly appeared at her side window in a dressing sacque, and Honora longed to do the same. [9]
And then the wind changed, went back round the circle, reversing everything, like dragging a cat by its tail. [4]
The horse snorted wildly and plunged away, dragging the rustler through the sage. [13]
There they stayed, while the blue lines quivered and fell back through the forests on that short winter's afternoon, dragging their wounded from the stagnant waters. [9]
There were circumstances which made it necessary for me to stay through the hour hours to the end, and I stayed; but the recollection of that long, dragging, relentless season of suffering is indestructible. [5]
I'd no idea what she was dragging me into that confounded hotel for. [5]
Of course we were besieged by a rabble of muscular Egyptians and Arabs who wanted the contract of dragging us to the top--all tourists are. [5]
Night after night we have shivered around through these mildewed halls, dragging chains, groaning, whispering, tramping up and down stairs, till, to tell you the truth, I am almost worn out. [5]
And Dragging Canoe was their chief. [9]
Yet the thirst was on him; his enemy had him by the throat again, was dragging him down. [11]
Franz, Bilibin's man, was dragging a portmanteau with some difficulty out of the front door. [2]
In the skiff was a youth of fourteen or fifteen years, holding by the slender twigs, the boat dragging at them all the time, and threatening to tear them away and go over the fall. [6]
Caracalla then went up to the prisoner, and dragging him, weakly resisting, from the dark back ground of the room to the window, he asked with a sneer: "And what are assassins like in Alexandria? [10]
But no, my uneasy spirit kept dragging me back at quarter-hour intervals; and always I saw Backus drinking his wine--fairly and squarely, and the others throwing theirs away. [5]
At last they turned the prow to the landing, Forbes rowing, and Marion dragging her hand in the water, and looking as if she had never cast a line. [4]
You only seem to see rout, retreat, and dishonored colors dragging in the dirt--whereas none of these things exist. [5]
Slowly Oldring sank to his knees, and the hand, dragging at the gun, fell away. [13]
On all sides they saw rain-soaked officers with dejected faces who seemed to be seeking something, and soldiers dragging doors, benches, and fencing from the village. [2]
The king saw the two engaged in a struggle, but he could not interfere, for the reins which Mena had dropped were dragging on the ground, and his ungoverned horses, following the lions, carried him madly onwards. [10]
That affair was the same thing as this soldier with the harsh voice, and it was that affair and this soldier that were so agonizingly, incessantly pulling and pressing his arm and always dragging it in one direction. [2]
Or it was the same stalwart maiden, or another as good, in a boat which stood on end, pulling through the surf with one oar, and dragging a drowning man (in a bathing suit also) into the boat with her free hand. [4]
Look there in the meadow behind the village, three of them are dragging something. [2]
When Mastor appeared the lad had just succeeded in dragging the dog away from Selene, who was lying on the stairs leading to the corridor. [10]
They then crossed the hollow to Semenovsk, where the soldiers were dragging away the last logs from the huts and barns. [2]
She realized that the hand of nomad, disorderly barbarism was dragging her with a force which was inhuman, or, maybe, superhuman. [11]
I had wore the ground a good deal crawling out of the hole and dragging out so many things. [5]
Do you think the exhausted prisoner was allowed to rest and sleep after she had spent the small remnant of her strength in dragging her tired body back to the dungeon? [5]
Seventeen men, by the exertion of all their strength, were dragging the heavy statue from the house, which was almost on the point of falling in, into the square. [10]
Sometimes it is the dragging of something heavy over the floor, that makes me shiver to hear it,--it sounds so like what people that kill other people have to do now and then. [6]
Stolphe had heard the door of the bedroom forced, but Jean Jacques had not heard it; he was only conscious of hands dragging him back just at the moment of Stolphe's deadly peril. [11]
The first idea that flashed upon her mind was flight, instant flight; dragging him from that place, and rather dying of want upon the roadside, than ever exposing him again to such terrible temptations. [12]
It is the terrible one to whom I was delivered by hate and the deceived love which is now dragging me by the hair, and will rob and torture me till I despair of life. [10]
Diodoros, seized with sudden terror of the dark figure, which he believed to be a risen ghost, took to his heels, dragging Melissa with him. [10]
On cold and stormy winter nights, to the traveler wearily dragging along in his creaking sleigh, the light from its windows suggests a house of refuge and the cheer of a blazing fire. [4]
But suddenly a storm came on, chromatic scales and diminished sevenths were heard in the orchestra, everyone ran off, again dragging one of their number away, and the curtain dropped. [2]
Once more that steady pull began, and once more I lay torpid a century of dragging seconds till my breast was naked again. [5]
He was almost sorry that he had trusted her with his secret and begged her for mercy, instead of leaving things to run their course, and if it had come to the worst, dragging her to perdition with him. [10]
As I did so, he caught my wrist and lunged most fiercely at me, dragging me to him. [11]
In the pause, she felt the Thing draw up towards her knees, dragging its body along with tiger-like closeness, and with that strange pressure which was not weight but power. [11]
Now, after a severe accident, she is dragging herself through life on one foot. [10]
Prince Andrew again seized the standard and, dragging it by the staff, ran on with the battalion. [2]
We do somehow seem to manage to live on next year's crop of corn and potatoes as a general thing while this year is still dragging along, but sometimes it's not a robust diet,--Beriah. [5]
A third section scattered through the village arranging quarters for the staff officers, carrying out the French corpses that were in the huts, and dragging away boards, dry wood, and thatch from the roofs, for the campfires, or wattle fences to serve for shelter. [2]
Asking about the Russian prisoners with that detachment, Dolokhov said: "A horrid business dragging these corpses about with one! [2]
Soldiers were continually rushing backwards and forwards near it, and he saw two of them and a man in a frieze coat dragging burning beams into another yard across the street, while others carried bundles of hay. [2]
They moved in procession down the surface of the frozen river, on foot, and dragging their canoes after them on sledges. [5]
Then some other people ran in and began dragging away the maiden who had been in white and was now in light blue. [2]
It was the Past dragging at her life. [11]
So he went on, endless years, driving through space, some terrible intangible weight dragging at his heart, and all his body panting as it spun. [11]
As she went on down the street past the stores with their rude platform entrances, and the saloons where tired horses stood with bridles dragging, she was again assured of what was the bread and wine of life to her--that she was loved. [13]
In the course of the day's business the Order of "Reports of Committees" was finally reached and when the weary crowds heard that glad announcement issue from the Speaker's lips they ceased to fret at the dragging delay, and plucked up spirit. [5]
A large crowd of militiamen and domestics were moving toward her, and in their midst several men were supporting by the armpits and dragging along a little old man in a uniform and decorations. [2]
By much dragging of chestnuts from the fire for others to eat, his claws are burnt off to the gristle, and he is thrown aside as unfit for further use. [7]
I do not object to the witness dragging a mountain forty-five miles to help the scenery under consideration, because it is entirely proper to do it, and besides, the picture needs it. [5]
It certainly was not our fault that we were listeners to his instructive struggles with ancient history, nor that we heard his petulant complaining to his cowed family, whom he accused of dragging him away on this summer trip. [4]
To the one, nights spent in dancing had seemed made of minutes instead of hours; to the other, those selfsame nights had been like all other nights of dungeon life and seemed made of slow, dragging weeks instead of hours and minutes. [5]
And yet that night she lighted the candles at the dead man's head and feet, dragging herself thither in the cold; and in her heart she said that the smile on Antoine's face was deeper than it had been before. [11]
I lay a long time, peering into the darkness, and listening.--Then I heard a grating noise overhead, like the dragging of a heavy body across the floor; then the throwing down of the body, and the shaking of my windows in response to the concussion. [5]
One must not keep a rudder dragging across a boat's stem if he wants to get up the river fast. [5]
I cannot lay it down, and I cannot shorten it, for story, character, soul and reflection, imagination, observation are dragging me along after them. [11]
But the battle is not over then, nor without long and arduous fighting, often a dreary, dragging struggle without the excitement of novelty. [4]
But rhymes are iron fetters; it is dragging a chain and ball to march under their incumbrance; it is a clog-dance you are figuring in, when you execute your metrical pas seul. [6]
Hastily dressing himself in flannel shirt and trousers, and dragging a blanket from the bed, he found his way to the bedroom door, went into the other room, and felt his way to the front door, which would open into the night. [11]
She was so impatient that the second-hand seemed whole tedious minutes dragging its way around the circle. [5]
A dozen times I had imagined I heard the hoofbeats of the real Captain Raymond's troop arriving behind us, and had been sitting on pins and needles all the while that that conversation was dragging along. [5]
Presently he saw himself in a ridiculous picture: a buffalo dragging the Treasury Bench about the Chamber; as one conjures things in an absurd dream. [11]
It seemed to him also that he had been one cause of the misfortune to the Bolton family, and that he was dragging into loss and ruin everybody who associated with him. [5]
In 1640 Queen Henrietta was four weary days dragging over the road from Dover to London, the best in England. [4]
It was the heavy dragging sound, as I had often heard it before that waked me. [6]
It must be he, and yet it was not, for he never came up with such slow and dragging feet. [10]
After some time he succeeded in dragging himself to the side of the road, where he lay until a Nuremberg carrier, passing with his team of four horses, lifted him, with the help of his servant, into his cart and took him on. [10]
He came in gaping and digging one fist into his eyes, and he was dragging a gun along with the other one. [5]
The cattle moved forward with drooping heads and dragging feet or rolled on the ground till the shepherds' lash compelled them to summon their failing powers. [10]
Could that be Eurydice whom the rough guide was tenderly dragging out of the hell of waters, up the stony path, that singular figure in oil-skin trousers, who disclosed a pretty face inside her hood as she emerged? [4]
I saw them dragging out things which were used in our service only yesterday. [10]
This," he added, dragging his friend over the railing, "is Mr. Somers Duncan. [9]
Wrangle plunged again, dragging his bridle, that Venters had not had time to throw in place. [13]
Who gave the dragging car its rolling wheel, And tamed the steed that whirls its circling round? [6]
The dreary and dragging ages of bloodshed and disorder and oppression will give place to peace and order and the reign of law. [5]
Then, being set down again, the dying creatures would totter gropingly about, with dragging wings, find each other, strike a guesswork blow or two, and fall exhausted once more. [5]
Impelled by the crowd, they had got wedged in at the approach to the dam and, jammed in on all sides, had stopped because a horse in front had fallen under a cannon and the crowd were dragging it out. [2]
We left John Canty dragging the rightful prince into Offal Court, with a noisy and delighted mob at his heels. [5]
He seized me by the shoulder and began dragging me up the bank. [9]
A few strokes brought him to the shore, dragging his senseless burden with him. [6]
This one was bending under a heavy gravestone, and dragging a shabby coffin after him by a string. [5]
So they had been dragging their chains about, all this weary time. [5]
The case had been dragging along from year to year, like an English chancery suit; and while courts and lawyers and witnesses had been sleeping, the property had been steadily growing. [6]
Yes, and for a year Joan had known only the cool damps of a dungeon, and now she was dragging herself through this sultry summer heat, this airless and suffocating void. [5]
Although we kept a watch by day and night, we saw no sign of Dragging Canoe or his men, and at length we forded the Holston and came to the scattered settlement in Carter's Valley. [9]
Perhaps it was a sort of vanity, perhaps a kind of courage, which made him resolutely straighten himself, in spite of the deadly weight dragging his shoulder down. [11]
I imagined myself a death-sentinel drowsing there alone, far in the dragging watches of some wailing, gusty night, and having in a twinkling all my body stricken to quivering jelly by the sudden clamor of that awful summons! [5]

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