Show strong sympathy for

Usage examples of pulling.

I strove again, then, to escape, pulling against the bonds, trying to abraid them against the back of the blade.

The man lurched back, one hand grasping, then pulling at the adze wedged in his shoulder.

Pulling his hat low for shade, Mat searched the road for a woman, for anyone, mounted or afoot, and his heart sank.

French, pulling a handgun from the pocket of his jack and pointing it first at the shopkeeper, then at Agate, and finally leveling it upon Alek.

By right, as an old friend who had found the airman in the forest, Seryonka was walking solemnly in front of the stretcher, laboriously pulling his feet, encased in the huge felt boots left him by his father, out of the snow and sternly scolding the other white-toothed, grimy-faced, fantastically ragged boys.

The garment was filthy and soaked with blood at the neck, but Alec obeyed quickly, pulling it on with a shudder of revulsion.

By the light of the remaining half, he and Alec located the small tack room and began pulling down saddles and gear.

Pulling the drapes shut, Alec took out the lightstone and sat down to begin his search.

Then Alee, pulling himself slowly away from the counter, went from the shop.

I found myself inside her royal suite with the doors closing behind me and two amahs coming at me to take off my jacket and pulling me gently towards the private steam room.

The shadow that was Cloud was pulling ahead of them again, nothing but a grayness in the ambient and a grayness in the softly felling snow.

And in the afternoon we went for a row on the river, pulling easily up the anabranch and floating down with the stream under the shade of the river timber--instead of going to sleep and waking up helpless and soaked in perspiration, to find the women with headaches, as many do on Christmas Day in Australia.

The wing dipped uncertainly beneath his weight, pulling toward the building Argent had leaped from.

Axel and Jed were still there, Axel leaning on his rifle, pulling on his beard.

Louis Browns, George Shaefer and others, he at once begun pulling wires looking toward the formation of an organization based on the old American Association lines, one that should do away with many of the evils that now exist.