Use pulled in a sentence
Sentences starting with pulled
- Pulled it when he was away along in his book, and his memory of what he had said about Sydney had grown dim: "We cannot quit the promising town of Dubbo without testifying, in warm praise, to the kind-hearted and hospitable usages of its inhabitants. [5]
Sentences ending with pulled
- He gathered himself together, and then with teeth, hands, and body rigid with enormous effort, he pulled and pulled. [11]
- They went through the meetings, of course, and thrashed over the list of horses entered at Ipswich, and York, and Newmarket, and how many were thought to be pulled. [9]
- We had sense enough not to bring him here to be pulled. [9]
- There never was a howl afterward--that is, from the man who was having the tooth pulled. [5]
Short sentences using pulled
- He pulled himself together, shuddering. [11]
- I pulled things off. [11]
- Joe pulled a long face. [9]
- Suddenly he pulled himself up. [9]
- Then Venters pulled him hard. [13]
- She pulled down her veil. [9]
- She pulled her gift in. [5]
- Sunday Pulled through. [5]
More example sentences with the word pulled in them
- Then--need I assure you of it?--my blood boiled with righteous indignation; but instead of being ashamed of the outrage, he raised his hand to my head and pulled the veil. [10]
- After almost killing you I've pulled you through. [13]
- Holgate, the young Yorkshire engineer, pulled himself up to the deck two steps of the ladder at a time. [11]
- She wore heavy woollen rider's stockings, half length, and these were pulled up over the ends of her short trousers. [13]
- Taking a skiff with the General, your reporter was pulled up to a little house of two rooms, in which the water was standing two feet on the floors. [5]
- She took it with a curious contracted look and put it on the finger again, then pulled off the other glove quietly. [11]
- But seeing his wife's eyes fixed on him intently, he suddenly pulled up, and no more did I get from him on the subject. [11]
- La Tremouille turned white with anger, but he pulled himself firmly together and held his peace. [5]
- Do you remember when we were sailing round the pond, and the boat upset, and you pulled me senseless out of the water? [10]
- The next morning, when the train for the East pulled out of Illinoistown, Miss Jinny Carvel stood on the plat form tearfully waving good-by to a knot of friends. [9]
- Kiechel says that when the criminal was driven in the cart under the gallows, and left hanging by the neck as the cart moved from under him, his friends and acquaintances pulled at his legs in order that he might be strangled the sooner. [4]
- At last all were seated, the carriage steps were folded and pulled up, the door was shut, somebody was sent for a traveling case, and the countess leaned out and said what she had to say. [2]
- His friends who were not "saved," closed in on him to find the meaning of his words, but he pulled himself together, looked blankly at them, and asked them questions. [11]
- Suddenly my senses were alert, and I knew that Mr. Trevor had pulled the detective out of bed. [9]
- Getting up, he went over to the bell-cord at the door and pulled it. [9]
- You know how we used to burn the stumps out; and then somebody invented a stump-extractor, and we pulled them out with a yoke of oxen. [8]
- We found the way without any trouble, reached there before sundown, played three games of cribbage, borrowed a dug-out and pulled back six miles to the upper camp. [5]
- We got under way about the turn of noon, and pulled out for the summit again, with a fresh and vigorous step. [5]
- Colonel Clark stood watching from the bank above, and it was he who pulled me, bedraggled, to dry land. [9]
- The sailor who was telling this to Mr. Burlingame added: 'We pulled together thirty-two days' rations for the thirty-one men that way. [5]
- Here a chair was set down, there a chariot or a coach pulled up, and a clocked flunky bowing a lady in. [9]
- Ball's original, it was said, looked like a newspaper strip in the way it was printed, and may indeed have been a proof pulled in some newspaper office. [5]
- Then the shade was pulled down, abruptly; and Janet, overcome by a sense of horror at her position, took to flight.... [9]
- Mr. Price, however, was one of an adaptable nature, and by the time he had pulled up beside Jethro he had recovered sufficiently to make a few remarks on farming subjects, and finally to express a polite surprise at Jethro's return. [9]
- This young man was dressed in a threadbare blue cloth coat lined with fox fur, that had once been smart, and dirty hempen convict trousers, over which were pulled his thin, dirty, trodden-down boots. [2]
- At times I was afraid he was going to rupture his invention; but it always stood the strain, and he pulled through all right. [5]
- Just as one used to take for granted that third horse which pulled the car uphill, so Peter was taken for granted. [9]
- At Charley's words upon the Abbe's figure, gaunt and precise as a swaddled ramrod, he pulled his nose with a grunt of satisfaction. [11]
- He pulled himself up with a last effort. [11]
- Then he pulled up sudden, and it got so quiet you could 'a heard a pin drop. [11]
- As it pulled up at the curb, a silence fell between them. [9]
- He pulled out two old yellow sermons from a heap of such, and began looking over that for the forenoon. [6]
- A year or two later Madame Blanc translated it into French and published it in the 'Revue des Deux Mondes,' but the result was not what should have been expected, for the 'Revue' struggled along and pulled through, and is alive yet. [5]
- Then he turned toward Virginia, thoughtfully pulled his goatee, and laughed gently. [9]
- Pentaur pulled himself together, sent out a battle-cry like some fighting hero who is defending his last stronghold, and brandished his new weapon. [10]
- He pulled himself together, looked round, screwing up his eyes, glanced at Prince Andrew, and, evidently not recognizing him, moved with his waddling gait to the porch. [2]
- She pulled herself together, and said, 'I must conquer this shrinking body of mine, by my will. [11]
- I pulled myself together, and resolved to give her credit for using the word "smart" in its unobjectionable sense. [9]
- He pulled himself together with a supreme effort. [9]
- She pulled herself together and said, with a pious two-per-cent. [5]
- We pulled off to where the others waited. [9]
- Gen. Grant bowed to the people two or three times, then approached my side of the platform and the mayor pulled me forward and introduced me. [5]
- I ain't a-goin' to tell you of the many tricks that were pulled off out there in the sage. [13]
- I have pulled to pieces all the persons I am acquainted with, and put them together again in my characters. [6]
- I asked her to let me think a minute; and she set there, very impatient and excited and handsome, but looking kind of happy and eased-up, like a person that's had a tooth pulled out. [5]
- His face seemed to grow longer as he pulled his goatee. [9]
- The nuns were to be pulled up by the roots, so to say, on the day specified, and without postponement, and to be transferred to a house prepared for them at Massa, a few miles down the promontory, and several hundred feet nearer heaven. [4]
- As it came to a halt directly opposite to where he stood, the dwarf pulled off his hat, and saluted the party with a hideous and grotesque politeness. [12]
- Its roots are thus inextricably entangled with those of self-love and bleed as mandrakes were said to, when pulled up as weeds. [6]
- When she had thrown herself upon him, the dog had pulled her down before he could prevent it: he would certainly have sprung past her and have come to the rescue but that he must thus have betrayed his visit to the tablinum. [10]
- Buried in his thoughts, he was only subconsciously aware of what he saw until, after near an hour's riding, he pulled rein at the door of the Stay Awhile Hospital, which was some miles in the rear of the main force. [11]
- Mavick pulled through, though at an enormous cost, and with some diminution of the notion of his solidity. [4]
- In addition to this, the sense of having been pulled up by the roots grew upon me. [9]
- Several times after this, she pulled her horse down to a walk, and was apparently on the point of turning around again: a disinterested observer in a farm wagon, whom she passed, thought that she had missed her road. [9]
- I jumped up, thinking to please him by this intelligence, when Colonel Clark pulled me down again. [9]
- Homeward he went therefore; and his apartments (for he still retained the plural fiction) being at no great distance from the office, he was soon seated in his own bed-chamber, where, having pulled off one boot and forgotten the other, he fell into deep cogitation. [12]
- I just expected there'd be somebody laying down in it, because people often done that to fool folks, and when a chap had pulled a skiff out most to it they'd raise up and laugh at him. [5]
- But Sam'l sat there, and sat there, and sat there, and after a while the old man pulled out his dinner-pail. [9]
- It seems that the young fellow who pulled the bow oar of that men's college boat which we had the pleasure of beating got some glimpses of Georgina, our handsome stroke oar. [6]
- The habiliments of the west, the sack coats and sweaters, the slouch hats and caps, the so-called Derbies pulled down over dark brows and flashing eyes lent to these peasant types an incongruity that had the air of ferocity. [9]
- The light in the west was gone as we were pulled into Far Harbor, and the lamps of the little town twinkled brighter than I had ever seen them before. [9]
- I have pulled the twins apart and made two individuals of them; I have sunk them out of sight, they are mere flitting shadows, now, and of no importance; their story has disappeared from the book. [5]
- By the time the travelers pulled up at a store in Bakersville they had lost all expectation of recovering the missing article, and were discussing the investment of more money in an advertisement in the weekly newspaper of the capital. [4]
- So I caught the train, and when it pulled in here I saw Pray jump out of the smoking car and start to run. [9]
- Everywhere prosperity, everywhere the strings of life pulled taut, signs that energy had been straining on the leash. [11]
- He was expected, the steward told him, but he arched his broad breast as if preparing for a wrestling match, pulled his mustache still longer, and went up the stairs. [10]
- The Mason drew the shirt back from Pierre's left breast, and stooping down pulled up the left leg of his trousers to above the knee. [2]
- They pulled down the shades and broke the Sabbath. [5]
- Worington glanced at the sentry, and pulled the Colonel past the entrance and into the street. [9]
- As I broke the seal, pulled out the cork and unwrapped the cigar from its gold foil he took a stick and rapped loudly on the floor. [9]
- Rook pulled at the reins and started of his own accord. [2]
- He pulled off the quilt and shook it. [2]
- It was to the nose that the street made one of its strongest appeals, and Mrs. March pulled up her window of the coupe. [8]
- The brilliancy of the morning had given place to greyness, the high slits of windows seemed dirtier than ever as the train pulled into the station at Hampton, shrouded in Gothic gloom. [9]
- Fulkerson told March the morning after Dryfoos returned that he had not only not pulled out at Moffitt, but had gone in deeper, ten times deeper than ever. [8]
- In front of the minister's barn under the elms on the hill Cynthia pulled the harness from the tired horse with an energy that betokened activity of mind. [9]
- Without a word, the mealman turned, pulled his clothes about him with a jerk, and, pale and bewildered, started away at a run down the plateau. [11]
- On the road the man pulled his resolution together, and began the march with a steady gait, but there was no eagerness in it. [5]
- He pulled forward the loose skin on the puma's breast and showed them the scar of a knife-wound above the one his own knife had made. [11]
- As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one side of the platform as the train pulled up at the other. [9]
- In this homestead the lad grew up, and it was not pulled down till 1849, ten years before his death. [4]
- He had all the imperiousness of a soldier, and in an altercation with Captain Newport, occasioned by some injurious remarks the latter made about Sir Thomas Smith, the treasurer, he pulled his beard and threatened to hang him. [4]
- He went to the hearth, pulled out a burning stick and wanted to burn the little ugly sheep so as only to have pretty white ones. [10]
- Darius pulled at the hair on his chin reflectively. [11]
- You could face the death-storm at Donelson and Vicksburg, and give back blow for blow; but when he clawed your whiskers, and pulled your hair, and twisted your nose, you had to take it. [5]
- A moment afterwards the dead man was pulled away by Parpon. [11]
- Farrar pulled down the corners of his mouth with trying not to smile. [9]
- Mr. Bixby pulled the cord, and two deep, mellow notes from the big bell floated off on the night. [5]
- Mr. Carvel pulled the cord to stop, and asked her name. [9]
- The smith pulled the cart, and Ruth pushed, Hans Eitelfritz, with his sword-bearer, walking by her side. [10]
- It was Melissa, the artist's daughter, who had pulled it up, with bended knees and outstretched arms, panting for breath. [10]
- Cecil Grainger, with the air of one who had pulled aside the curtain and revealed this vision of beauty and innocence, crossed the room to welcome her. [9]
- When he found that it was an infant (as he called me) that had done him the damage, he simply pulled my ears and went away; but he threw up his situation that night and left town for good. [5]
- And as for that intriguing little puppy, her father, you have pulled his teeth, egad. [9]
- Whereupon he became suddenly embarrassed, and pulled out a handkerchief the size of a table napkin. [9]
- You pulled that string as tightly as you could, but your very generous and worthy expectations were not quite fulfilled. [7]
- Whereupon the Colonel stretched his legs apart, seized his goatee, pulled his head down, and gazed at him for some time from under his eyebrows, so searchingly that the blood flew to Mr. Hopper's fleshy face. [9]
- I alighted, and stood on the platform as the train pulled out. [9]
- The train bands stepped ashore and gossiped with friends a quarter of an hour, then pulled out and repeated this at the succeeding villages. [5]
- That was a steady, sympathetic and honorable team, and although it was not swift, and not showy, it pulled me around the globe successfully, and always attracted its proper share of attention, even in the midst of the most costly and fashionable turnouts. [5]
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