He strode over to the girl and yanked her head back.
I remember he grabbed my hair and yanked my head back.
"But it very unceremoniously yanked my head out of the sand."
She lunged up at him and he yanked her head back.
He would yank the boy's head back by the hair, cut his throat.
The younger one was nodding as if a string were yanking his head.
A hand seized him by the hair and yanked his head back.
One hand twisted into Gray's hair, yanking his head back.
He took me by the hair, yanked my head back so that I was looking up at him, throat exposed.
Then, without a word, he yanked his horse's head about and rode off into the forest.