lug in
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The hub of derby activity is a small wooden shack here where fishermen and fisherwomen from across the island lug in their catch in coolers at 8 in the morning and 8 at night.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2012
She would need so much explanation; she was too interesting to lug in now, it was getting late.
From A Daughter of To-Day by Sara Jeannette Duncan
And of course they had to lug in the fact that Ambrose was a near-son-in-law of the president of the Corrugated Trust.
From Torchy As A Pa by Sewell Ford
There is a familiar story of Whistler, that when some one praised his latest portrait as equal to Velasquez, he snapped back, "Yes, but why lug in Velasquez?"
From Modern Essays by Harry Morgan Ayres
Hould there, if you plase," exclaimed one of his opponent's relations; "don't lug in his family; that's known to be somewhat afore your own, I bleeve.
From The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton
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