dragged

• What! remain to be Denounced--dragged, it may be, in chains; and all By your inherent weakness, half-humanity Selfish remorse, and temporizing pity That sacrifices your whole race to save A wretch to profit by our ruin! —  The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry
• "A commander-in-chief heading up with the bowlines dragged, and his second and third ahead--not to say fourth--running off with the wind abeam! —  The Two Admirals
• Where was he being dragged, and in the end would the seconds rest? —  The Seventh Noon
• The prisoner was to be "dragged"--the most humiliating punishment on the woodmen's code Gillsey's tears of fright were of no avail. He was wrapped in a sort of winding-sheet of canvas, smeared from head to foot with grease to make him slip smoothly, and hitched by the fettered wrists to a pair of horses. —  Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories
• And if the days dragged, and the great, lone land seemed to close in and press inexorably upon her, she would have to be patient, very patient Jake was held up, waiting for supplies. —  North of Fifty-Three

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