He and some of his companions one day entered a garden in the suburbs, and having indulged their appetites, desired to know what satisfaction they must make for the fruit they hadpulled.
2002, Marcella Ridlen Ray,Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society:
Television, a favored source of news and information,pulls the largest share of advertising monies.
2011, Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow,Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All:
While the pimp can alwayspull a ho with his magnetism, he can neverpull a nun. The nun is too in touch with her own compassionate and honest spirit to react to a spirit as negative and deceitful as that of the pimp.
What are you trying topull, anyway? You say you want to sell, but you have nothing to offer?! You've got some nerve, kid!
2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 16:22 from the start, inThe Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?[1], archived fromthe original on3 November 2022:
Faced with an enemy whose largest gun turrets weigh more than the entire ship,Johnston decides that running is boring, and insteadpulls a full 180-degree turn and charges straight back at the attacking forces.
Tocopy oremulate the actions orbehaviour associated with the person or thing mentioned(witha and the name of a person, place, event, etc.).
He hath turned aside my ways, andpulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
2009, Ardie A. Davis, Chef Paul Kirk,America's Best BBQ, page57:
If you are going topull or chop the pork butt, take it out of the smoker when the meat is in the higher temperature range, put it in a large pan, and let it rest, covered, for 15 to 20 minutes. Using heavy-duty dinner forks,pull the pork butt to shreds.
'I never liked Bowler, and I had my suspicions when Captain Ferndale persuaded you to put him up in that race. I did not discover until some time after that hepulled the horse.'
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2016, Antoinette Burton, quoting Shukdev Sharma,Africa in the Indian Imagination, Duke University Press,→ISBN:
She wants to work in the villages, and she has a lot ofpull with some ministers and there she is, like a political supervisor.
2017, Maggie Blake,Her Haunted Past, Book Venture Publishing LLC,→ISBN, page126:
I have already put Matthew Williams off for a few days. He wants to see her too, but he doesn't havepull with the director.
2020 March 27, Bettina Makalintal, “Samin Nosrat's 'Home Cooking' Podcast Will Make Your Quarantine Cooking Better”, inVICE[7], archived fromthe original on2022-12-06:
If Netflix truly cared about those of us sequestered to our homes, with our shelves of beans and bad-news-addled brains, it would release either a new season ofQueer Eye or another season of the similarly soothingSalt, Fat, Acid, Heat to help us bide our time. Alas, I have nopull at Netflix, and neither seems to be coming soon.
As Blunt had said, the burning ship lay a good twelve miles from the Malabar, and thepull was a long and a weary one. Once fairly away from the protecting sides of the vessel that had borne them thus far on their dismal journey, the adventurers seemed to have come into a new atmosphere.
1897, “Mees Üllikjärve ääres” (chapter 13), inMatthias Johann Eisen, compiler,Näki raamat[8], Tallinn: T. Turgan,→ISBN, page13:
Püsti tõustes kuulnud suurt sulpsatust järve peal, nagu oleks suur kivi vette visatud. Ilus naesterahvas olnud korraga kadunud. Seal kus ta püsti tõusis, vahutanud järve vesi ja ajanudpullisid vee peale.
When he got up, he heard a big splash on the lake, as if a big stone had been thrown into the water. The beautiful woman had suddenly disappeared. Where she stood, the water of the lake foamed and drovebubbles onto the water.
1877,Lilli Suburg, chapter I, inLiina. ühe eesti tütarlapse elulugu, temast enesest jutustatud.[9], Tartu: Schnakenburg, page 4:
Kesk tuba seisab pisikene laud, sääl pääl üks pesuwaagen kuhjaga täis seebiwahupullisid, Aurora ülesse kääritud käistega ühel ja mina niisamuti teine pool lauda, wõtame käpuga neid wahupulla ja wiskame teine teisele suure naermisega pähä ja kus aga juhtub, nõnda, et wahune wesi juba sorinal mööda silma-nägu ja riideid maha jooseb, aga ka mõni wahututt juuste, ninade ja õlade külge rippuma on jäänud, mis meile nii weidrad näud annab, et proua ja preili ennast selle üle katki tahawad naerda.
[Keset tuba seisab pisikene laud, seal peal üks pesuvaagen kuhjaga täis seebivahu mulle, Aurora üles kääritud käistega ühel ja mina niisamuti teisel pool lauda, võtame käpuga neid vahumulle ja viskame teineteisele suure naermisega pähe ja kuhu aga juhtub, nõnda, et vahune vesi juba sorinal mööda silma, nägu ja riideid maha jookseb, aga ka mõni vahututt juuste, ninade ja õlgade külge rippuma on jäänud, mis meile nii veidrad näod annab, et proua ja preili ennast selle üle katki tahavad naerda.]
In the middle of the room there is a small table, on it there is a wash basin full of soapy foambubbles, Aurora with her sleeves rolled up on one side and me on the other side of the table, we pick up the foambubbles with our hands and throw them at each other's heads and wherever else with a big laugh, so that the foamy water already runs down our eyes, faces and clothes, but also some tufts of foam are left hanging on our hair, noses and shoulders, which gives us such strange faces that the lady and the missus want to burst laughing at us.
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“pull”, in[EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation),2009
