How To Use Tug In A Sentence

Mediterranean to look out for a French and Spanish squadron, which had been on the coast of Portugal, but returned to Ferrol --- I received all your letters by the Turkish corvette, which is arrived at Messina. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2
Some might say the club have taken refuge in recent years in the rosy glow of their triumph of 1967 so they might be as well moving permanently to the Portuguese capital.
She tugged sharply on his sleeve to get his attention, then gestured to the tin. THE DEVIL'S DOOR
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Portuguese later acquired the property and turned it into the European-style Leal Senado Building for municipal chamber and the front square for Portuguese settlers to hold festive celebrations.

A guttural sound broke from his chest when he felt her sheathe tugging him deeper, its slick clench undeniable. Dreams of a Dark Warrior
Designed with grace and precision by Portuguese architect Bak Gordon, this modern home located in the heart of Pousos, is all about smooth and simple design that draws from the modern architecture principles of using simple cubical structures. How To Create a Minimalist Home
But the slave, perceiving that the zamorin seemed inclined to deal favourably with them, went to the cady or chief priest of the Mahometans, and told him all that he had said to the zamorin, adding that the two Christians had disclosed all their secrets to the Portuguese. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
He tugged at the neck of his turtleneck sweater feeling like it was a noose tightening with each attack.
An accumulation of debt has caused investors to worry that Portugal will not be able to pay back the money. Times, Sunday Times
All do a good job of tugging at your heartstrings. Times, Sunday Times
English FA also fear he could use any approach from them to get a better deal from Portugal. The Sun
Tugela Ferry's bug, however, takes on average an unprecedented 25 days after diagnosis to kill...
Portuguese artist Ana Sofia Varela is only 25 but is already one of the hottest stars of fado.
Two tugs from Clyde coastguards tried unsuccessfully to pull the vessel clear and it was freed the next day on the early morning tide.
You give your ropes a tug and pull all the other man's pegs out.
Dropping the towel he tugged on a pair of baggy, black jeans with lots of zippers and safety pins on them.
The four tug at slim underwear and an "X" appears on each's mouth as an explicative is bleeped out. Calvin Klein Marks Its Spot: China
All of which begs the question as to whether or not somebody SHOULD make a MMORPG based on the Wheel of Time series, though if they do I look forward to a variety of braid tugging and skirt smoothing emotes along with an "agelessness" slider in the character creation tool. The Ancient Gaming Noob
In breaks from active service, he farmed in Hampshire, took employment with the Portuguese navy, and was briefly employed as a spy among the naval bases in southern France.
The film helps debunk a recent media report that many of the players were banished to mines and farms for cavorting at a ‘wild party with foreign ladies’ before their defeat by Portugal.
She tugged at Rob's sleeve with just enough force to suggest that she would tug much harder if he did not comply with her wishes.
Under an order from state energy firm Gazprom, Sevmash completed Russia's first ice-resistant offshore production platform, which was tugged out to the Pechora Sea in August to drill at the oil-steeped Prirazlomnoye field. Reuters: Press Release
Not far away, and altogether more appealing, is the abandoned Portuguese city of Old Goa, now a dramatic collection of cathedrals and basilicas.
In the 17th century, the Dutch emerged as the most powerful of the Europeans, ousting the Spanish and Portuguese.
Sports that were rejected include chess, floorball, orienteering, korfball, sumo and tug of war ? Times, Sunday Times
Sure enough, Fishy tugged the rod back and clicked the button and a shiny fish wriggled directly in front of Lazarus' nose.
Tugging it off, I laid it down beside the water and jumped in for a refreshing dip.
It wants you to feel the cold tug of melancholy. Times, Sunday Times
Ben had heard that significant cry of alarm, and almost simultaneously the "plash" made by the little Portuguese as her body dropped down upon the water. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea
Now of the Romance languages, French and Portuguese are harder to learn, and so what are the characteristics there that make them less easy to learn than other Romance languages?
France were impressive 3?0 winners over Portugal.
What Tughlukabad was to the military of fourteenth-century Delhi, the suburb of Hauz Khas was to the savants.
Because of this idea of a competitive country, open to the biggest international challenges, I decided to be associated with the creation of A1 Team Portugal.
After I divorced Martin, the big blonde tugged strings and he became consultant designer for a detergent manufacturer.
What tugs at Carlyon's heartstrings is the fate of the soldiers, the boys from the outback and the small towns who dreamed of glory but found only death and disaster in the barren wastes of Gallipoli.
Roast suckling pig is served for New Year's in Cuba, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, and Austria—Austrians are also known to decorate the table with miniature pigs made of marzipan.
Basically, you'll be tugged along by a speedboat while standing atop a small surfboard-like platform, all the while performing aerial tricks and deft-defying maneuvers.
It is the Oporto silene (S. portensis), a curious growth, a lover of the sea-side dunes, which, though of Portuguese origin, as its name would seem to indicate, ventures inland, even as far as my part of the country, where it represents perhaps a survivor of the coastal flora of what was once a More Hunting Wasps
Concerntug the v* - trade* the force of my argument goes no farther than this; — that its Juppftfliou, by the ISrihfli government only, other nations continuing the trade as ufua\ % who would of cotirfe felSC on what we funender, would anfwer the purpofes of humanity, cither to the negroes tn Africa, or to thofe already in the Weft Indies; and I have quoted* in fupport of this opinion, the authoiitiesof men (naval commander! and others) who arc intimately acquainted with the trade, though no ways intended in its continuance; and I have not yet met with any evidence or argument* to Kivtttdate their testimony. The Monthly Review
The USS Tortuga, a dock-landing ship that is homeported in Sasebo, in southern Japan, was expected to head north later today to parts of the country most seriously affected by the quake, said Col. Japan earthquake and tsunami: Live updates
He tugged at his shirt cuffs, flicked lint from his lapels, and straightened his tie. NO BODY
She was surrounded by tug boats. Times, Sunday Times
Stars in pairs both orbit around a point in space called a barycenter, and researchers at times saw these orbits were slightly off, suggesting the presence of a planet tugging at both stars. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Next, he says that if one wants to add value, one stays out of tug-of-war and instead looks for issues or positions that are outside of the standard clumps. Ideological Games of Tug-of-War, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Cells tugged in one direction sent biochemical signals in the opposite direction in the form of a signature pattern of fluorescent light.
She tugged some moth-eaten curtain her way and pinned it to the back of the case with her knee. THE RHYTHM SECTION
The tug eased into the narrow docking space.
He claims that the morale he had developed during the double-header against Iceland and Canada in October, closely followed by the trip to Portugal, was unravelled by nearly three subsequent months without a match.
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Also unique to Portugal are the decorative tiles known as azulejos.
Then came a week of strong northerlies and the Maria V remained on her moorings, tugging at the chain. THE MAIN CAGES
The horse finally tugged the cart out of the mud
Growing concern that the crisis would now spread to other vulnerable nations such as Portugal and Spain also spooked traders. Times, Sunday Times
In the run-up to the finals, police at airports, rail stations and ports will be on the look-out for anyone trying to sneak to Portugal.
But Portugal are teetering on the edge of the financial abyss while Spain are not far behind. The Sun
[25] A moidore was a gold coin from Portugal or Brazil in use in Carter's time. Robert Carter Diary, 1725
But she suddenly strained, stretching in two directions — toward the man with the bag full of cash, and toward the aching call tugging at her mind. Hunter,Healer[SequeltoTheSociety]
Most of the Northern Iberian breeds are in high risk of extinction and are conserved in environmentally protected rural areas of Spain and Portugal.
Yet now and then you feel the tug, standing in front of a full-length mirror, fantasizing about cannonball shoulders and chiseled biceps.
Carne (who had taken most kindly to the fortune which made him an untrue Englishman) clapped his breast with both hands; not proudly, as a Frenchman does, nor yet with that abashment and contempt of demonstration which make a true Briton very clumsy in such doings; while Daniel Tugwell, being very solid, and by no means “emotional” — as people call it nowadays — was looking at him, to the utmost of his power Springhaven
The Portuguese monarch praises in round terms the edifying zeal of the primate, but wisely confined himself to his own crusades in India, which were likely to make better returns, at least in this world, than those to Palestine. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3
Tugging at her mane of red-gold hair she turned on her heel and looked Paula up and down.
As you blink, it will naturally spread without tugging at the shadow. The Sun
He described the Portuguese lament as a rumba with a tango bridge.
In what IMF chief Christine Lagarde called a "game-changing decisions," the eurozone also agreed to extend loan repayments and lower interest rates for Greece, Ireland and Portugal. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
This programme's success will require a truly national effort," the EU and IMF said in a joint statement, saying it combined the need to stimulate long-term growth, reduce the deficit and restabilise Portugal's banking and finance sector. Reuters: Top News
My neck itches and I pull up on the overalls, a movement that tugs the inseam into my crotch. Miracles, Inc.
I examined the books they possessed, and found a small work on medicine, a small cyclopaedia, and a Portuguese dictionary, in which the definition of a “priest” seemed strange to a Protestant, namely, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
During the 16th century the area was occupied by the Portuguese, the British, and the Dutch.
Dorothy tugged at her mother's sashed belt.
For his troubles, and no doubt a substantial pay cheque, Eric the King picked up the winning trophy and, for his most-valuable-player display, he was presented with an all-inclusive holiday to Portugal.
For they barter even for pieces of porringus, and of broken glass cups, so that I saw sixteen skeins of cotton given for three Portuguese centis, that is a blanca of Castile, and there was more than twenty-five pounds of spun cotton in them. The life of Christopher Columbus: from his own letters and journals and other documents of his time.
When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war.
This wasn't a principle, it was personal, and it was forelock-tugging deference. Times, Sunday Times
From the window she could see the docks, the harbour, the tugs that brought cargoes in and out and puffed stertorously, shaking the very air with their efforts. Shallow Soil
Here, the wreck of a tugboat rests in its sandy Caribbean grave.
But tehn, “normal” n “kitteh” tugever iz kinda an ox… oks… it duzz nawt maek much sence. K, I unnastanz nao - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Juan Rodriguez Fonseca, who had the chief management of the affairs of the Indies, and was permitted to fit out an expedition to visit any territories in the new world, except such as appertained to Portugal, or such as had been discovered in the name of Spain previous to the year The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831
Something in her gut gave a sharp tug when she caught a whiff of his cologne.
The area to be deforested is four times the size of Portugal and would be mainly used for agriculture and pastures for livestock.
As if to confirm the notion that Europe's contentious politicians are finally getting their arms around the crisis, one of the continent's wobbliest financial dominoes, Portugal, managed to sell more than a billion euros' worth of its long-term debt at lower than expected interest rates. Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
The daughter of first-generation Portuguese immigrants, she grew up in the small town of Victoria, British Columbia.
He tugged on a jacket and walked himself out to the Winchester Pier, undocking the small rowboat that he used to make the journey to the tower.
Portugal has lodged a complaint with the International Court of Justice.
The pain was getting worse as they tugged and pulled at my nerves. The Sun
On the field, they tug their opponents' shirts and fall over like skittles at the slightest contact.
He stood up and tugged on his navy blue tunic and adjusted the cuffs of his sleeves, which bore the four gold solid stripes of his rank.
It accounts for 15 (2. 7%) of my exemplars, of which 5 entered English via French, 4 via New Latin, 2 via Dutch, 1 via Portuguese, and the other 3 directly. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3
Bond redemption pressures for Portugal and Spain arrive in March and April. All-Clear in Euro-Zone Government Bonds?
When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war.
Sharpe, glad that he was not having to ride anywhere, began tugging at his tight boots.
After the divorce they became involved in an emotional tug of war over the children.
With its shoals and proximity to nearby shipping lanes, the Tortugas are a natural ship trap.
The first known example of moral dilemma and self was one Elmer Tug, a ripe Anglo-Saxon sheep dipper who one day didn't know where his boots ended and the sheep-dip began. How To Find Yourself (or a reasonable facsimile)
After I divorced Martin, the big blonde tugged strings and he became consultant designer for a detergent manufacturer.
The Chelsea hierarchy are also fuming their manager is using his connections to put out stories in Portugal that he is dissatisfied with life. The Sun
The cheese trolley is filled with Portuguese goat and sheep cheeses, to be eaten with a traditional slice of quince paste.
The cultural landscape predates this, the only ‘wilderness’ of its kind in Portugal, which was created by the Order of Discalced Carrnelites between 1628 and 1630.
The yaps and yowls are almost deafening, and as other sleds depart, your dogs go absolutely mental, tugging on their leads and jumping forwards.
He was uneasy, real uneasy, tugging uselessly on the bottom of his jacket, and fussing with the cummerbund for the umpteenth time; yet he was looking forward to seeing her.
When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war.
The manacle around my neck tugged on my skin, lacerating my raw flesh.
Those lamps look like throwbacks to some older, lost city, the London of Sherlock Holmes and Watson, peasouper fogs and tugs on the Thames. MAN AND WIFE
There is an open question as to what the legal status of these operations would be after the exemption expires and our towing operations that use heavy tugs move to light-sport aircraft.
Nel 2030, astronavi aliene di pattuglia ricevono un potente segnale radio dal pianeta blu. No Fat Clips!!! : GRZEGORZ JONKAJTYS – Legacy
Eagerly she tugged the card off the Cellophane wrapping - then stared at it in confusion.
He lunged at the man and his sword rammed itself between the man's ribs, grated, then a French hand gripped Sharpe's blade, blood showed at his fingers, but the man held on, tugged, and another man clawed at Sharpe's face. Sharpe's Siege
Mountains of northern Spain leave their poor country for a time for the richer provinces of Portugal and Spain, where they become porters, water-carriers and scavengers, and are known as boorish, but industrious and honest. Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
Grann notes that in 1753 a Portuguese bandeirante - a soldier of fortune - emerged from the Amazon jungle and described how, "after a long and troublesome peregrination, incited by the insatiable greed of gold", he had seen the ruins of an ancient city from a mountain top. Signs of the Times
A little boy came running up and tugged at his sleeve excitedly.
She tugged desperately at her restraints as memory came flooding back, but the chains seemed to be unbreakable.
It's tipping down with rain, Poland are kicking from right to left and Portugal get proceedings underway after Hugh blows his big blue whistle.
Several pages of this book recall the salutary rigour of the Dragonades; and that odious passage, in which a man distinguished for his talents and his private virtues, the Count de Maistre (Soirees de St. Petersbourg tome 2 page 121) justifies the Inquisition of Portugal “which he observes has only caused some drops of guilty blood to flow.” Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
They unabashedly explain the techniques they use to tug at viewers' heartstrings.
The Mozambiquans second language is Portuguese, and the Zimbabweans (who know English) can only speak to locals here in Shona. Chimoio to Penha Longa and back: 3 days
The baby was tugging at his coat to show that he wanted to be picked up.
As his fingers gripped the knife and tugged, the blade sliced into his palm.
There will be live music throughout the day, a fun fare, bouncing castle, tug of war, sheaf throwing and a whole host of entertainment.
The silk stops friction tugging at curls and helps keep them glossy. Times, Sunday Times
To each of the churches of this diocese a parish school is attached, where instruction is given in Catholic doctrine, music, English, and Portugese, as well as, in some instances, Guzerati and Mahratti. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
A contemporary Portuguese geographer recorded that Diaz realized ‘that the coast here turned northwards and north-eastwards towards Ethiopia under Egypt and on to the Gulf of Arabia, giving great hope of the discovery of India’.
The baby was tugging her hair.
With Portugal he has been a divisive figure. Times, Sunday Times
He stepped down in 1991 after losing the first multiparty elections held in any of Africa's five Portuguese-speaking nations. Cape Verde's Former President Wins Leadership Prize for a Graceful Exit
But no one wins in this tug of love. The Sun
A trained work elephant then moved up on either side, rather like tugs docking a ship.
Alice was tugging on a sweater.
The vessel bucked and swerved as the upper atmosphere began to tug and grab at the smooth underside of the glider-car.
Among the little stores, Meia Tigela and Verde Inveja showcase Portuguese products, from lavender or cherry-scented Confiança soaps, to strong red wines from the banks of the Douro river and colorful clay figures of saints, soldiers and roosters made in the nearby town of Barcelos. Within Portugal's Cradle
Stars in pairs both orbit around a point in space called barycenter, and researchers at times saw these orbits were slightly off, suggesting the presence of a planet tugging at both stars. Breaking News: CBS News
It was the most terrible war-shriek I had heard: a kind of wolfish baying that called up an image of all the dogs of war simultaneously tugging at their leashes. Fighting France
jpb and stuggy, y'think the OC is so pissed off because the "irresponsible journalism" of RTMS interrupted his orgasm...on the Playboy Channel? Contradictions: Contemplating the Mysteries of Cycling
So you can take the entire project on a disk and a laptop to your villa in Portugal and edit cost-free till you feel you've licked it.
In March 1995 the Spanish and Portuguese currencies were devalued by 7 and 3 per cent, respectively.
I gave the plastic thingy a good firm tug, just to show it who was boss.
She was eventually forced to sue for peace but still refused to pay tribute to the Portuguese.
European explorers - first the Portuguese in search of the Spice Islands (Indonesia) and then the Spanish - reached the Carolines in the 16th century, with the Spanish establishing sovereignty.
Contemporary photographs are juxtaposed with a sixteenth century, copper Portuguese mirror.
The Portuguese called the guerrillas turras or banditos, while the MPLA guerrillas denoted the Portuguese with the shortened word tugas.
Nabokov, of course, would have taken delight in using "scutch"; I suppose I'd go with "I feel in my gut the Fate tugging the thread" for phonetic and associational reasons, but I would regret losing the specificity of the technical term. Languagehat.com: SCUTCH.
The team were very nervous in their opening matches against Israel and Portugal.
From the tender age of twelve, my mother had been unable to start her day without the aid of at least two cups of immoderately strong, tar-black, unsweetened coffee, a taste for which she had picked up from the tugboat captains and zooty bachelors who filled the boardinghouse where she had grown up. Middlesex
The Macao people have combined Western cheeses, Chinese soybean oil and caraway, coconut milk popular in Thai cooking, and Indian curries into Portuguese cuisine, which is spicy and enticing.
The Portuguese imported both tobacco and opium, and supplied a cheap instrument for addicts, the pipe.
Last night three tug boats were on standby to attempt to haul the vessel free. Times, Sunday Times
Although this looks strange today, it was a common practice in the transcription of Hebrew words among Italian and Spanish-Portuguese Jews of the period, and it indicates that the guttural Semitic consonant ayin, which is pronounced with a pharyngeal contraction in Arabic and Middle Eastern Hebrew, was still being given this value, or an approximation of it, in southern Europe long after it was lost to Ashkenazic Jews. Undefined
The doomed tanker was hauled out to sea by tugs straining against the winds and tide.
I obtained my own first copies of Mojica's films on bootleg videocassette, which is how all first generation American fans saw them: in poor quality and in Portuguese, a language we did not read or speak, which made them all the more dreamlike and exciting --like the discovery of something long forbidden. Zé do Caixao: The Nightmare That Must Survive
He put the cloak back on me, and as I pulled the hood up, the edge caught my earring, and tugged it away.
Tug the drawer and it will open.
Portugal is a traditional ally of England.
The islands were first settled in part by Portuguese prisoners sent to populate the remote archipelago as a condition of their release.
The bosses drive Mercs, own villas in Portugal, and sail their yachts.
Against the Portuguese side, however, this seemed the product of facing a side as proficient in stultifying opponents as Celtic have proved in the past.
Vivek Prakash/Reuters Juhu Beach near Mumbai Thursday; the beach got a new water feature when the cargo ship Wisdom, being tugged to the Alang scrapyard in Gujarat from Colombo, broke away in rough weather and drifted until it ran aground. Asia in Pictures
I fought my way forward, one hand tugging him onwards, the other pinning my hat to my head.
Spain and Portugal will be next followed by Italy and Croatia, Russia and China.
I gave his thick thatch of apparently genuine hair a tug to make sure.
In the 1880s the city was a mesh of Italian, Portuguese, Mexican and German immigrants.
Surely the only necks you can breathe down in a tug of war are those of your own side? Times, Sunday Times
There is little point in attempting anything practical: boiling a kettle on the living room floor is ill-advised with three pre-schoolers tugging at the flex.
III. i.112 (465,2) So weary with disasters, tug'd with fortune] _Tug'd with fortune_ may be, _tug'd_ or _worried_ by fortune. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
Nor yet the Austrian cross-breeds who are to be beheld behind the _gulasch_ in the Rue d'Hauteville, nor the semi-Milanese who sibilate the _minestrone_ at Aldegani's in the Passage des Panoramas, nor the Frenchified Spaniards and Portuguese who gobble the _guisillo madrileño_ at Don José's in the Rue Helder, nor the half-French Cossacks amid the _potrokha_ in the Restaurant Cubat, nor the Orientals with the waxed moustachios and girlish waists who may be observed at moontide dawdling over their _café à la Turque_ at Madame Europe After 8:15
The club's success has prompted many football fans to search their atlases for this cobblestoned city in northern Portugal, and to realize that in the flashy, money-soaked world of modern football, there's still room for a team built on old-style discipline, a strong work-rate and stout defense. How Braga Climbed a Mountain
Feeling a tug at his sleeve, he turned to see Joe beside him.
Piven defines "dissensus" as a tug of war between the need for political leaders to "mobilize majorities" and "disruptive challengers work (ing) to fragment them. Frances Fox Piven's "Challenging Authority"
Tugs brought the mail ashore and passengers were slung ignominiously over the side in baskets and sent ashore in tenders.
Portugal has lodged a complaint with the International Court of Justice.
It stuck like glue and no matter how hard he tugged it, it just wouldn't budge.
An 'we'd vagged him sooner Ridmond might have taken th' tu av thim down tugither. The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Landlord Oliver Cleary is expecting a dip in takings when 10 of his regulars jet off for their annual golf tour to Portugal next month.
The result leaves the unfancied Portuguese in pole position in the group after Germany and Romania battled each other to a 1-1 draw earlier in the day.
We revisited two British war cemeteries, which always tug at your heart in that direct and inescapable way. Whicker's War
And as Georgia, clutching a plastic punnet, tugs on her mother's sleeve and begs her to accompany her to the redcurrants, it's clear that the most enthusiastic fruit-pickers live on-site.
A wry smile tugged at the corner of his mouth.
She tugged at the chain again with all her might, but it remained secure.
Standing in the water, working like a tug, I maneuvered these hundred-foot behemoths against the banks and anchored them to the brush with yellow rope while Radish took rides on their backs.
Through the summer, you'll barely turn a corner without seeing a Highland Games, with the skirl of the bagpipes, tug-o'-war, races and what they quaintly call heavy events’ - throwing lumps of metal and tossing the caber.
The tug of cultural anthropology and sociology is strong here, and underscores food as symbol and metaphor, a cultural numerator essential to the human equation.
Add a funny, finally devastating smile, the sensuous Portuguese language, and what can only be called the ease of Case's full-bodied womanliness, and you've got more than enough love to go around.
I wonder if I can catch a rebroadcast of the England-Portugal quarter final today?
With a fair wind it's a four hour crossing to the island, distinguishable from surrounding islands thanks to the casuarina trees planted by the Portuguese.
Although Transparente was recorded in Brazil, its 14 gem-like songs remain true to the deepest traditions of fado, the breathtakingly lyrical and melancholic music of Portugal.
It was a bitter, acrimonious divorce that involved lawyers and an emotional tug-of-war over access to Leon.
Having reached the limit of Mediterranean traditions of navigation and map-making, the Portuguese employed the services of Jewish scholars to calculate the position of the sun, moon, and stars.
And the tug of music was there, and the tug of those words of the baroness about salvation -- the thought of achieving the impossible, reserved only for the woman of supreme charm, for the true victress. Beyond
That’s not the point, the point is that the Poles and Portuguese do not engage in legalized butchery of their children. Matthew Yglesias » McConnell Warns of American Dystopia — More Equality, Less Poverty, Longer Life Expectancy
I forgot to take my camera with me to Portugal, so I couldn't take any photos.
By 1960, only seven remained active as target tugs and radar calibration aircraft for the gunnery ranges ashore or the fleet guns.
My great grandmother with her black skin and her blue eyes tells me that we are Geechees from the Georgia sea islands, Geechees descended from a Portuguese pirate and a Spanish Jewish woman.
One firm sent its lighters, the London County Council dispatched its hopper barges, and the Port of London nine of its tugs which towed Thames sailing barges behind them.
The French government then required Portugal to close her ports to British shipping and to declare war on Great Britain.
Inside the museum, all manner of detailed models, from submarines, steamboats and trawlers to battleships, tugs and cobles, competed for best model in the various classes.
In vindaloo, the vinegar is an influence from the Portuguese merchants who carried wine -- but because of the long trip some would sour and they would find a cooking use for it. Goan Curried Braised Beef With Potatoes, Cider Vinegar & Coconut Milk
To experience traditional Portuguese cuisine, dine in one of the pousadas, where old recipes are served.
Tugging his forelock to politicians shouldn't even be on the agenda. The Sun
The duo, classmates from Harvard Business School, joined forces in 2007 to launch Gilt Groupe Inc. and bring designer sample sales— famous in New York for inducing tug-of-war frenzies—to an online audience. More How I Built It
I think a better tug would be a fancily flapped ultralight or a very large yet lightweight hang glider trike.
Bridges, tunnels, scows, tugs, graving docks, container ships, all the great works of transport, trade and linkage were directed in the end to this culminating structure. Underworld

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