haulings

We begin Garden Show Hell this morning, with setup for the nature center's booth and multiple haulings of stuff.

Less windy jhetley 2008

Irving had marked the cairn on their earliest crudely drawn maps as four miles from the cache point rather than the actual two miles, but they'd quickly discovered their mistake during subsequent man-haulings.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

Even then he had not guessed at the truth — that never having had to worry about men she had seldom used the wary subterfuges, the playings out and haulings in, that were the stock in trade of her sisterhood.

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

A touch somewhere, a pulling-about and a readjustment, might have saved “Ali Sin,” but the pullings and haulings which they gave it did not.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

In which he describes a variety of horrid atrocities perpetrated upon slaves; such as brutal scourging and lacerations with the application of pepper, mustard, salt, vinegar, &c., to the bleeding gashes; also maimings, cat-haulings, burnings, and other tortures similar to hundreds described on the preceeding pages.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

To use torment also or question by pain and torture in these common cases with us is greatly abhorred, since we are found always to be such as despise death, and yet abhor to be tormented, choosing rather frankly to open our minds than to yield our bodies unto such servile haulings and tearings as are used in other countries.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

And I'm jalousin 'she would be getting her keel-haulings for that, poor lady.

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

In which he describes a variety of horrid atrocities perpetrated upon slaves; such as brutal scourging and lacerations with the application of pepper, mustard, salt, vinegar, &c., to the bleeding gashes; also maimings, cat-haulings, burnings, and other tortures similar to hundreds described on the preceeding pages.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

Even then he had not guessed at the truth -- that never having had to worry about men she had seldom used the wary subterfuges, the playings out and haulings in, that were the stock in trade of her sisterhood.

The Beautiful and Damned 1918

The subsequent pullings and haulings, the poundings and jammings of this experience are happily compensated for if Chase takes him when all is over, binds up his bruises and tells him about fights of other days when there were giants upon the campus.

Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University Will Irwin 1910