But it was steady work and pay - no small pull for aspiring artists.

Now without knowing just why, he turned to tug weakly at the other, winning him out of the flood by small pulls.

Wiz followed with a smaller pull on his tankard.

Paul had laughingly explained that they had taken one small pull only at the bamboo rod, purely out of courtesy to the Moi chief, but it had gone straight to Joseph's head.

The gulf contains three small pull apart basins, the Elat Deep, Aragonese Deep and Dakar Deep, formed between four left lateral strike-slip fault segments.

"Though so small a pull, could scarce be more than a wish."

He took a small pull at his bourbon on the rocks.

He had the self-restraint to take only a small pull on the drinking-tube and then put it back.

He felt nothing except a small pull in the back of his neck.

The Kaitoke basin is a small pull apart basin formed at the 2 km lateral offset between this segment and the Tararua segment, near Kaitoke.