Chucked

Examples

• Kind service cannot be chucked from hand to hand like a shuttlecock or stool-ball. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• She paused, and then, bending forward, with a lowered voice: You know we all went on to Nice last night when the Duchess chucked us. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• You know, of course, that the Duchess chucked her at dinner last night, and she thinks it was my fault--my want of management. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I don't doubt you've accepted as much before--and chucked the other chaps as you'd like to chuck me. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Well, the woman you'd have chucked everything for: only you didn't, continued his surprising son. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Well, they were very soon chucked themselves, and of the whole twenty in the boat, only half a dozen are alive now. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Oh--the reason they chucked Sicily and rushed back? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a cup of tea. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The child came up, and the master patted the curly head, and chucked him under the chin. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Chucked 'em overboard. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

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