tugging

Even with all her comforts and a constant, tugging ennui, Mei knows the risks that she faces as an ernai.

Heart-tugging tales about her own six-year-old son, Cole, who was born with Down Syndrome.

Throughout, the investigation churns on, tugging us along with it.

Those images stayed with her, tugging at her, she says, to go back one day and help.

Sharp increase though that may be, the forces that have kept the city quiet for the past 11 months have hardly stopped tugging.

For Mrs. Robin had an end of a pinkish-white worm in her bill, on which she was tugging as hard as she could.

A fifty-mile breeze lashed us spitefully, tugging at our shirt-sleeves and drowning our voices, while we halted on that pinnacle.

Stop and try a ride, Billy, urged Lance Darby, holding the cord of the tugging kite.

Eloise was puzzled, but the sight of Mrs. Biggs tugging at her wet satchel to open it diverted her mind.

She was tugging at her bonnet strings, which were entangled in a knot, into which the cord of her eyeglasses had become twisted.