hard pull

She has won more races than any American yacht, and even to-day can give the best of the new yachts a very hard pull.

We've had a pretty hard pull, you and I, but we're coming out famously.

One more hard pull and we have drawn it up over the mud embankment into the lagoon, which the waves cannot reach.

He pulled through, however, though it was a hard pull; yet when he began to convalesce he mended very rapidly.

It was a long, hard pull for my weak hands, but had I not undertaken it our poor little boys would have been drowned.