He pulled the ropes amain.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The children ran down the hill amain.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

His bloodhounds twain he called amain, and straightway gave her chase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rookwood] Reference

To be relieved he calls amain.    From Wordnik.com.  [England's Antiphon]

His throat he drives the griding sword amain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor] Reference

But flies forth amain to what task Zeus hath given.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Plays in English Verse] Reference

A sound as though a cork from a bottle burst amain!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peer Gynt] Reference

Riving wresteth amain; down falleth he, upward hoven.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference

The tide was running out amain, and slowly, bit by bit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 3, 1892] Reference

And quite ready to dance amain, fearing only the rotten.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference

The flood-gates once opened, the water poured in amain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference

    Riving wresteth amain; down falleth he, upward hoven.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems and Fragments] Reference

    And quite ready to dance amain, fearing only the rotten.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems and Fragments] Reference

And Pentheus hied this way and that, and called his thralls amain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hippolytus/The Bacchae] Reference

We care not though the drifting snow whirls o'er the heath amain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1] Reference

Cleave fast to her thou lovest and let the envious rail amain, iv.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

And thrice and four times tugg'd amain, ere he wrench'd out the steel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference

To be crushed and broken and scattered amain, as the wrecks of the surging storm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans"] Reference

Her will is the doom of the children, and Discord is kindled amain, antistrophe 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven against Thebes] Reference

“‘Down came the storm, and smote amain/The vessel in its strength,’” Terence quoted.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Say Nothing of the Dog]

The hoofs of the horses were broken whilst the stoutest of the enemies fled amain, and fell headlong down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 07: Judges The Challoner Revision] Reference

Then on a sudden he makes them stoop, and come down amain from heaven next to the ground; and all for the gut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference

And like unto a mad lion, that one of great strength proceeded amain towards that tree breaking down various plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference

Heroick Voice cried out, Courage brave boys, Charge and Discharge amain; come I'll supply your fall'n Captain's place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold] Reference

From time to time, the tried-in-battle their gray steeds set to gallop amain, and ran a race when the road seemed fair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere] Reference

Stoutly stood with his shield high-raised the warrior king, as the worm now coiled together amain: the mailed-one waited.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere] Reference

The Mirrour of Princely Deedes and Knighthood, which was widely known in England through translations. amain with all his might.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Francis Drake (Eighty-Eight)] Reference

The soul strives amain to live and work through all things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays — First Series] Reference

His gaunt mournful Shade as he bade the King haste off amain?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Late Lyrics and Earlier : with Many Other Verses] Reference

And the goodwife drew the settle, and stirred the fire amain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference

Cleave fast to her thou lov'st and let the envious rail amain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV] Reference

Thy prayers are but idle; thou sowedst Vexation; so reap it amain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III] Reference

So I walked stiff and dignified amain, that dog in step with me the while.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series] Reference

We treat the West and defend East, Center, North and South of Ukraine amain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

Duke, count, seignor and vassal, knight and squire, master and man swarm and struggle amain.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

Give it to eat, it thrives and flourishes amain; But give it not to drink of water, or it dies? '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV] Reference