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He felt that she was sitting at her little window, looking out into the night, thinking of him and a great desire gripped at his heart, tugging him in its direction. But he turned toward the west. "We can't let her know what has happened, boy," he said, feeling the urge of caution. "For a little while we must let her think we have left the country.
Actæon squirmed from the clutching hands, and tugging at the broad knife he wore in his belt sprang in front of the unknown in an attitude of defense. It was a woman! By the dim starlight the Greek beheld her gesture of indecision and surprise. "Are you not Geryon the slinger?" she murmured, holding her hands out to the Athenian.
Colonel Clayton, Carter Thom, and Mowbray could be seen working side by side with stevedores from the docks and the rabble from the shipyards. John Camblin, a millionnaire and nearly eighty years of age, head of the largest East India house on the wharves, his hat and wig gone, his coat split from the collar to the tails, was tugging at an anchor ten men could not have moved.
And a third time he cries, yet more sternly, "Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's!" And the Bootstrap-lifters pause long enough to answer: "Lord have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law!" Then they renew their straining and tugging. I step up, and in timid tones begin, "Reverend sir, will you tell me by what right you take this wealth?"
He hopped right into the middle of the wires, and then, just as he reached up to take the first bite of bark, he felt something tugging at one of his hind legs. Peter Rabbit Is Caught in a Snare When Peter Rabbit, reaching up to nibble the bark of one of Farmer Brown's young trees, felt something tugging at one of his hind legs, he was so startled that he jumped to get away.
The ludicrous figure which he cut in his retreat excited the Professor to laughter, in which Penelope joined, clapping her hands with mirth. I, wiser than she as to the danger of firearms, and trusting less to her father's mild intentions, broke into tearful pleading. "Please don't shoot, Professor," I whimpered, tugging at his coat-tails to drag him back. "They won't hurt you, I know they won't."
She stood motionless, scowling at Peggy's unconscious back, and then her little face overcast and rebellious, she turned and made her way down to the willow and the waiting canoe. The latter moved gently as the water rippled past. It seemed to Dorothy to be tugging at its fastenings with an impatience that matched her own.
Phyllis came back, a brown leaf in her hand, and Don tugging at her skirts. "Here we are, Nannie, all safe and sound, and we caught the brownie." She gave the leaf to Don, and she and Janet went on their way. "Let's stop and see Akbar," Phyllis suggested. "I knew you'd say that," Janet laughed. "What makes you so fond of that animal."
No, Sophie Carr's presence in San Francisco could not possibly make any difference to him. He repeated this emphatically with rather more emphasis than seemed necessary. But he found it did make a difference, a profoundly disturbing difference. He had grown insulated against the memory of Sophie Carr tugging at his heartstrings as the magnetic north pulls on the compass needle.
Almost the next moment Rodd dimly saw that they were clear, and as the men tugged at their oars with all their might he dropped upon his knees in front of stroke, clapped his hands against the oar, and swinging with the man, thrust with all his force. Five minutes of desperate tugging at the oars in the midst of darkness which seemed to rapidly increase.
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