Pushing

Examples

• It appeared to be something interesting, for every one was pushing and striving to get nearer. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Wait, she whispered, leave them to me, and pushing me advanced, all defenceless and unarmed, upon the snarling banths. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• So there is no loss, the gypsy said and pushing the blanket aside he came out into the dark. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• They were shouting and pushing and they made a noise now like an animal and they were all shouting 'Open up! Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• No, no, not to-night, said Meyler, pushing me from him, without looking at me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• And as for Pilar pushing her onto you, all Pilar did was be an intelligent woman. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Oh, I read no literature now, said Lydgate, shutting the book, and pushing it away. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• By the next year McCormick was pushing his Gorham binder on the market, and the farmers who had wavered in their allegience to his reaper were returning to the McCormick fold. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The Germans suffered enormous losses and were held, after pushing in the French lines for some miles. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Well, sir, what with the hurry and the crowd of people pushing about, I can't rightly say what the lady looked like. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Mother, interposed her son, always getting before her and pushing her back with one shoulder as she sidled at my guardian, WILL you hold your tongue? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Dear Rosy, lay down your work and come to sit by me, he said, gently, pushing away the table, and stretching out his arm to draw a chair near his own. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Roylands, said Maurice, pushing back his chair into its former place, is a large park formerly owned by one of the Plantagenet kings. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• It was like pushing the chair itself back into the past, when we began the old slow circuit round about the ashes of the bridal feast. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• To the west of the thirteen states stretched limitless lands into which settlers were now pushing in ever-increasing numbers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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