Lexicographical Neighbors of Tuggings
Literary usage of Tuggings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sierra Leone: Or, The White Man's Grave by George Alexander Lethbridge Banbury (1890)
"After continued tuggings, we succeeded in making the brute turn round ; but as
this brought ... After repeated tuggings, which were ineffectual, McLoughlin, ..."
2. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (2001)
"Any such tuggings of mind or heart as would ruffle and discompose the smoothness
of lyrical division would be quite out of keeping in a course of dream-life ..."
3. The Red Badge of Courage and Four Stories by Stephen Crane (1997)
"Here is the canceled page: He went into a brown mood. He thought with deep contempt
of all his grapplings and tuggings with fate and the universe. ..."
4. The Bookman (1905)
"not the tuggings of genius toward higher expression, but merely growing pains.
Almost invariably the correspondent announces his intention of going on with ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
"... and tuggings, and frequent invasions of his majestic ease, which he had been
wont to sustain ; if so, this was probably to him a source of private ..."
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