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Definition of Tugging
1. tug [v] - See also: tug
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tugging
Literary usage of Tugging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1892)
"The first of these, "that brachial tugging does not occur in health, ... The third,
that aneurisms of the amending arch do not cause tracheal tugging is ..."
2. The Montreal Medical Journal edited by George Edgeworth Fenwick, Thomas George Roddick, George Ross (1892)
"The General Clinical Value of Tracheal tugging. ... Perhaps the slight tugging
discovered in healthy persons may have its origin in the normal pulsation of ..."
3. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... tugging hard and closely grasping, Brother proves his strength with brother.
Then is our banquet crowned. Then is our banquet crowned, Ah! gay, ..."
4. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciencesedited by [Anonymus AC02809657] edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1893)
"Macdonnell asserts " that tracheal tugging does not occur in health, ... Of this
number, tracheal tugging was found by the writer and Ewart to be present in ..."
5. Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators by Elbert Hubbard (1903)
"Events kept tugging to loosen his tendrils from his early environments. People who
live on Boston Bay like to remain there. We have all heard of the good ..."
6. Anthropology and the Classics: Six Lectures Delivered Before the University by Arthur Evans, Robert Ranulph Marett, Andrew Lang, Gilbert Murray, Frank Byron Jevons, John Linton Myres, William Warde Fowler (1908)
"... is apt to label ' survival' stands for a force still tugging at the heart-strings
of even the most sophisticated and lordly heir of the ages. RR MARETT. ..."
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