He pulled and Tugged, and had the centerpole not been so strong and so deeply set in the ground, he would surely have either broken it off or pulled it up.
"Leo the Circus Boy"
Ralph Bonehill
Simultaneously a whirlwind broke out, Tugged the boughs of the tree, swept away in the twinkling of an eye the camp-fire, seized the embers, still burning under the ashes, and carried them with sheaves of sparks into the jungle.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
They Tugged at their load with dull, dumb patience and obstinacy, although the bay had stumbled rather badly the whole way.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard