"Drag up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... murex-fishers drench you as they pass? Do your roots drag up colour from the sand? Have they slipped gold under you— ...
— Sea Garden • Hilda Doolittle
... two women, hauling at the little fjord seal, which they could not manage to drag up from the shore. They could not even manage it with the old man's help. They hauled away, all three of them, bending their bodies to the ground in their efforts, but the seal would not move. Then at last the stranger came ...
— Eskimo Folktales • Unknown
... the rock was soft, cut steps in it for the distance of about twenty feet, and thus passing along, leaped, at the risk of his life, on a small rock below, where he received those who followed him on his shoulders. Thus four of them passed, and managed to drag up the canoe, though they damaged her in doing so. They had now reached a spot where the canoe could be repaired, and fortunately found a dead tree which had fallen from the cliffs above. But for this, fire could not have been kindled there, as no wood was to be procured within a mile ...
— The Pioneers • R.M. Ballantyne |
