The big foretopsail yard was being hauled round agonizingly slowly, it seemed to Ramage, so that theJuno was likely to overshoot theSurcouf.

There were thirty in the raiding group, and five wagons were being hauled slowly behind them.

A cable was attached, and the truck was slowly hauled upright, exposing what was left of the Porsche.

Up it horses could walk, and wains could be slowly hauled; but no enemy could come that way, except out of the air, if it was defended from above.

The weary horses splashed into the stream and Dagorian cracked the whip twice as the wagon was slowly hauled across.

A third siege tower was being hauled slowly towards the ramparts, and the defenders waited with oil and fire.