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Sentences ending with tug

What he said to his chief had its effect, and soon there was a white flag flying on the tug. [11]
We had reached the stage where anxiety begins to take the place of excitement, and we shifted restlessly from spot to spot and looked at the tug. [9]
He called on his men to fire when Lafarge was about two hundred and fifty feet from the tug. [11]
It would be a pretty game, for the wind was in Tarboe's favour, and the general advantage was not greatly with the tug. [11]
The Maria was a good boat, but she had not been built to try conclusions with a Far Harbor tug. [9]

Sentences containing tug two or more times

One is an old "independent" fireman, and he wants an engine in place of the cannon; another is a mate of a tug, and wants a tug in place of the ship --and so on, and so on. [5]

More example sentences with the word tug in them

To me, preoccupied with the knowledge that the tug would soon be upon us, there seemed nothing strange in the attitude of these two, but Miss Trevor remarked something out of the common at once. [9]
The little tug, which was pretty well packed with the merry company, was swift, and danced along in an exhilarating manner. [4]
He is embarrassed which to choose, and is not unlikely to waste years in dallying with his chances, before giving himself to the serious tug and strain of a single object. [5]
No doubt he was right; for as the tug hurried on, Tarboe ran to Joan, hugged her like a bear, and roared till he ached. [11]
Meanwhile the tug was fast sinking. [11]
She was a tug, and one of a very peculiar build and aspect. [5]
He gave another tug at the boot, and while she was still hesitating, he began again. [9]
It made me tug and pant and perspire; and still, labor as I might, the machine came almost to a standstill every little while. [5]
The pipe belonged to a tug, that was certain. [9]
The tug strengthened to a steady strain--it grew stronger and stronger. [5]
In less than three hours we might expect the Maria and the tug in the cove. [9]
Another moment, and the tug itself was bobbing in the open. [9]
I could have taken a fast tug, and should have stood a chance of catching that vessel. [5]
Then the tug slowed up, the Ninety-Nine came on gaily, and at a good distance came up to the wind, and stood off. [11]
And when I see a whole silent, solemn drawing-room full of idiots sitting with their hands on each other's foreheads "communing," I tug the white hairs from my head and curse till my asthma brings me the blessed relief of suffocation. [5]
Presently the tug Pinafore glides up to the landing, the engineer flings open the furnace door, and the glowing fire illumines the interior, brings out forms and faces, and deepens the heavy shadows outside. [4]
When they came out onto the beaten highroad--polished by sleigh runners and cut up by rough-shod hoofs, the marks of which were visible in the moonlight--the horses began to tug at the reins of their own accord and increased their pace. [2]
A tug came off, bringing newspapers, letters, and so forth, among the rest some thirty letters and telegrams for me. [6]
Then, with a judgment peculiarly antic (pun not intended), then take hold of opposite ends of that grasshopper leg and begin to tug with all their might in opposite directions. [5]
From the tug it seemed that a large and well-armed crew were ranging behind the bulwarks of the Ninety-Nine. [11]
The ironclads, followed in hot haste by General Sherman in a navy tug, had gone ahead, and were even then shoving with their noses great trunks of trees in their eagerness to get behind the Rebels. [9]
The captain and I joined a party of ladies and gentlemen, guests of Major Wood, and went down the river fifty-four miles, in a swift tug, to ex-Governor Warmouth's sugar plantation. [5]
By and by I felt a faint tug, and took a fresh grip. [5]
A tug picked him up, but he never came to--the strength wasn't in him. [9]
And when, as her train pulled out, Honora bade him goodby, she felt the tug at her heartstrings which comes at parting with an old friend. [9]
As long as he was on the tough sides of my face I did not suffer; but when he began to rake, and rip, and tug at my chin, the tears came. [5]
With the sail cracking and the big boom dodging over our heads, we watched the tug as she drew nearer and nearer, until we could hear the loud beating of her engines. [9]
But the captain can't make a tug that is deceptive, and a fire engine is many flights beyond his power. [5]
A special tug came to take us off: on it were the American consul, Mr. Russell, the vice-consul, Mr. Sewall, Dr. Nevins, and Mr. Rathbone, who came on behalf of our as yet unseen friend, Mr. Willett, of Brighton, England. [6]
The sun was burning my neck behind when a whistle aroused me to the realization that the tug was no longer a toy boat dancing in the distance, but a stern fact but two miles away. [9]
Hunt leans out and nearly falls out, but is rescued by Division Superintendent Manning of the Northeastern Railroads, who has stepped in from Number Seven to give a little private tug of a persuasive nature to the Honourable Adam's coat-tails. [9]
They make up and go to work again in the same old insane way, but the crippled ant is at a disadvantage; tug as he may, the other one drags off the booty and him at the end of it. [5]

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