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in tow

if you have someone in tow, you have them with you. She arrived with six small children in tow.

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It escaped his attention, for he was glancing over the stern at something the boat had in tow. Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context In this predicament, Captain Sublette found them, in a manner becalmed, or rather run aground, at the little frontier town of Independence, in Missouri, and kindly took them in tow. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context I have seen the boy before,” said Benjamin, who wanted little encouragement to speak; “he has been backing and filling in the wake of Natty Bumppo, through the mountains, after deer, like a Dutch long- boat in tow of an Albany sloop. The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context More results

References in classic literature

It escaped his attention, for he was glancing over the stern at something the boat had in tow.

Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context

In this predicament, Captain Sublette found them, in a manner becalmed, or rather run aground, at the little frontier town of Independence, in Missouri, and kindly took them in tow.

The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context

I have seen the boy before,” said Benjamin, who wanted little encouragement to speak; “he has been backing and filling in the wake of Natty Bumppo, through the mountains, after deer, like a Dutch long- boat in tow of an Albany sloop.

The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context

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