Tour of duty

Usage examples of hitch.

Gordon, through the long day, continued to squirm and hitch to increase the abrasion on the fetter.

The only hitch was, that this cabby might have been ordered to pick up as a passenger a man who came from the Acme Florists, wearing a red primrose.

There should be a hitching post, Alan thought, a stagecoach rattling by, a dozen extras milling around.

Hitching himself swiftly over the top of the wall, Alec lowered himself by his fingertips and dropped down the other side.

For it was Arga, the farrier, who oversaw the hitching of the donkey cart in the gray-lit stableyard at dawn.

She appointed lobbyists fresh from their hitches with paper, asbestos, chemical, and oil companies to run each of the principal agency departments.

I see nothing illusive in the wretchedly bedaubed sheet of canvas that forms your background, or in these pasteboard slips that hitch and jerk along the front.

He looked out to the blue sierras to the south and he hitched up the shoulder strap of his overalls and sat with his thumb hooked in the bib and turned and looked at them.

The men were now hitching the bosk to the wagons taken from the camp of the Lady Sabina.

The first team of bosk was hitched up, two of the great animals, broad, shaggy, with polished horns.

Sergeant Hoster along with the bodies of Scout Buel Hitch and the barber whose shop was by the west gate.

Esco had used the fence for hitching rack, and the pointed tops of the palings had been cribbed away to splintered nubs by bored horses.

Holden drew to a halt and hitched his thumbs in the bright cummerbund around his waist.

My breathing hitched as I hauled her close, rubbing her cushiony belly against my stiff erection.

Then I saw him go to the shed and hitch up two horses and take the doubletree off the hay rake.