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Sentences starting with push

Push these people's boat out into the stream, you men. [10]

Sentences ending with push

As soon as he had quitted him, Stephanus turned to the anchorites who stood near him, saying, "These stones are loose, and though my strength is indeed small still it is great enough to send one of them over with a push. [10]
If you know, and have no objection to tell, let me know whether Trumbull intends to make a push. [7]
His England was a land the original elements of which would not change, had not changed; for the old small inner circle had not been invaded, was still impervious to the wash of wealth and snobbery and push. [11]
Then why push? [2]

Short sentences using push

But he won't push himself. [9]

Sentences containing push two or more times

When you come back I'll steal up here and push and push with all my might to roll the rock and close forever the outlet to the Pass! [13]

More example sentences with the word push in them

I know not your purposes, but I trust you will not push your advantage"--he waved towards our muskets--"against a private gentleman. [11]
I beg of you to push back the bolt at once. [10]
To him I would push up another pawn, in the shape of a comely and wise young woman, whom he would of course take--to wife. [6]
Really, what you would push him to do would take from him his entire power to serve you. [7]
Let time and works speak, and Cecil will give the thing a push at the proper moment. [9]
Only the Magians, wonder-workers, and street wenches were suffered to push their way in among the horses, asses, elephants, dogs, vehicles, and mounted troops. [10]
Though the grass was still wet, she got down on her knees in her white skirt, the better to push the boat along the shore: once it drifted beyond their reach, and was only rescued by a fallen branch discovered with difficulty. [9]
And while the usher vanished from the room, one of the warriors turned his head to look about him, and directly he caught sight of Melissa he gave his comrade a push, and said to him, loud enough for Melissa to hear: "A wonder! [10]
They push and trample one another under foot; veils and dresses are torn; ladies faint away in the scrimmage, and only the strongest and most unscrupulous get in. [4]
He thought she took pleasure in having him push her wheel-chair up and down the piazza at least she rewarded him by grateful looks, and complimented him by asking his advice about reading and about being useful to others. [4]
There were quarrels, too, the men striving to push one another from the easier paths; and deeds sublime when some straggler clutched at the bole of a tree for support, and was helped onward through excruciating ways. [9]
When they were together, one moment she wanted to take his hands in her hands, and in the next she wanted to push him over some great cliff--he was so maddening. [11]
Are you going to split the Ohio down through, and push your half off a piece? [7]
He even helped to push the boat towards the water. [9]
Ruth was glad to hear that Philip had made a push into the world, and she was sure that his talent and courage would make a way for him. [5]
Dolokhov replied that they were not hungry and must push on farther that night. [2]
Is it unreasonable, then, to expect that some man possessed of the loftiest genius, coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch, will at some time spring up among us? [7]
As if measuring themselves and preparing for the coming movement, the western forces push toward the east several times in 1805, 1806, 1807, and 1809, gaining strength and growing. [2]
She knew, by their uncertain yelping up and down the opposite bank, that she had a little respite: she used it, however, to push on until the baying was faint in her ears; and then she dropped, exhausted, upon the ground. [4]
She thoughtfully gave the wheel a push, and as it turned swiftly she remembered the Swiss dance the evening before, and suddenly clenched her small right hand and dealt the palm of her left a light blow. [10]
Dryfoos apologized for the streets because they were hand-made; said they expected their street-making machine Tuesday, and then they intended to push things. [8]
Humphrey, just push the stable button, will you? [9]
Ulrich kept beside the sledge to push it. [10]
So great was the press that the police had to interfere, and push back the throng from the door. [4]
I jumped from the horse, and told her that she must push on alone to the Fort, that Tophet could not carry both, that I should be in no danger. [11]
Come slow; push the door open yourself--just enough to squeeze in, d' you hear? [5]
I push open the door and enter. [6]
When told that the Caesar was close at hand, she had only time to raise herself a little higher on her cushions, push back her hair, and let Iras, with a few hasty touches, adjust the folds of her mourning robes. [10]
She had heard the alien spoken well of by some people; others had seemed indignant that the Armours should try to push "a red woman" into English society. [11]
It was generally supposed, however, that the gentleman from Leith was going to run for the State Senate, and was attempting to get a following in other counties, in order to push through his measures next time. [9]
As to any special book, the publisher is the sole judge whether to push it or to let it sink into the stagnation of unadvertised goods. [4]
As she did so she looked out, and she saw Hiram leap into a boat and push the light bark from the shore. [10]
Something touch me, smell me, and a nose was push against my chest. [11]
We square our shoulders and turn out our toes, and push our hands into our pockets, and act as if we owned the world. [11]
If the landsman should wish the gang-plank moved a foot farther forward, he would probably say: 'James, or William, one of you push that plank forward, please;' but put the mate in his place and he would roar out: 'Here, now, start that gang-plank for'ard! [5]
His push had sent Horapollo tottering to some distance; and when the old man had pulled himself together, to throw himself once more on his victim, he found himself the centre of a fight. [10]
Eh, voila, I see light, as I said, and I push aside heavy curtains ver' little, and there is the Chamber of the Joy below. [11]
The moon had scarcely risen when the boat was stranded at a short distance below Fostat, and the men had to go overboard to push it off to an accompaniment of loud singing which, as it were, welded their individual wills and efforts into one. [10]
For this additional reason I wish you to push forward your column as rapidly as possible. [7]
I would not push you to any rashness, but I am very anxious that you do your utmost, short of rashness, to keep Bragg from getting off to help Johnston against Grant. [7]
Then he could push on to the Border. [11]
The army should push on before the rest bolt, that's all! [2]
They let him push in about half a rod, and they swallowed him. [9]
I began to push Chartersea with all my might, and the wonder of it was that we did not fight with our fingers on each other's necks. [9]
He dreaded to push an explanation, and, foolish as lovers are, he was wise for once in trusting to time. [4]
Chicago--well, perhaps the Prophet of the Steppes would have made an exception of Chicago, and been cynically delighted to push it on its way of increase, aggregation, and ruin. [4]
He wanted to pinch him, push him, do anything but kiss him--a thing everybody did. [2]
He asks me, or he asks the audience, if I wish to push this matter to the point of personal difficulty. [7]
But after watching one night, they tried to push on to the Debil-debil Waterhole. [11]
As we came on, I observed the general sway and push forward again, and then I lost sight of him, for I saw what gave the battle a new interest to me: Doltaire, cool and deliberate, animating and encouraging the French troops. [11]
But we held on to the canoe, and although we were washed down nearly to the Carson, we managed to push the boat ashore and make a safe landing. [5]
De pan drop' on de flo' an' I grab his lef' han' an' shove back his sleeve--jist so, as I's doin' to you--an' den I goes for his forehead an' push de hair back so, an' 'Boy! [5]
You are one of those who can never keep their fingers at rest, and must knead everybody's dough; must push, and drive and stir something. [10]
But this act of self-control must have cost the hot-headed, powerful man a great effort; for he shot a fierce look at the instrument which had had so narrow an escape, and gave it a push of vexation with the back of his hand. [10]
As every man obtained otherwise lessens the draft so much, and this may supersede it altogether, I hope you will push forward your volunteer regiments as fast as possible. [7]
But the tendency now is to push analysis of individual peculiarities to an extreme, and to substitute a study of traits for a representation of human life. [4]
But he did not push the inquiry. [9]
He had, therefore, no other resource but to sail out and push on for Quebec. [11]
Still, we shall never push her to a dangerous speed, and we shall rigidly prohibit racing with other comets. [5]
She was far nearer weeping than laughing already, when a man's deep voice said behind her, in tones of commanding decision: "Make way there for the pumps; push aside whatever stops the way. [10]
I suppose we mostly are giving up ourselves to Ourselves, thinking always of our own pleasure and profit and pride, never being content, pushing on and on...., Ian, I'm not going to push on any more. [11]
A mudsill like me trying to push in and help receive an awful grandee like Edward J. Billings? [5]
It will push me hard to get there without injury to my own business; but I shall try to do it, though I am not yet quite certain I shall succeed. [7]
The enemy are making a desperate push upon Harper's Ferry, and we are trying to throw General Fremont's force and part of General McDowell's in their rear. [7]
If he had kissed her she would have felt that she must push him away; and yet she also knew how good a man he was. [11]
I turn sick in my stomich, and I turn round and see Norinne stan' hin the door, all white, and she make her hand go as that, like she push back that hot wind. [11]
This had been his mood, but he was still irresolute, and it needed some outside suggestion to push him forward to overcome his lingering reluctance to go home. [4]
Rudyard sprang to his feet as though to reclaim it, but stood still bewildered, as he saw Stafford push it farther into the coals. [11]
You don't teach him to push ahead and do and dare things for himself, but you do just the reverse. [5]
I am telling him Junie Gauloir have run away with Dicey the Protestant, when all very quick Luc push between me and Henri, jump into the street, and speak like that! [11]
Novem either put her horns into Octo's ribs, and Octo shambled to one side, or else the two locked horns and tried the game of push and gore until one gave up. [4]
She reached out her hand tremblingly as though to push him back. [11]
He's hard, and he'd push an advantage, but I don't believe he would take an unfair one. [8]
The fact that he picked me out to engineer the thing, and that he's going to let me in if I push it through, is a pretty good sign that he thinks something of my business ability, eh? [9]
Wetting his thumb, he began to push aside the top bills. [9]
But she would have done better to keep her opinions to herself, for before she had done speaking Katharina gave her an angry push with her foot. [10]
Everybody was in haste, too, to push on his private plan, and feverish in his haste, as if in constant apprehension that tomorrow would be Judgment Day. [5]
Off in the grounds of the dead Seigneur's manor he could see a man push the pebbles with his foot, or twist the branch of a shrub thoughtfully as he walked. [11]
It was the Government's intention to push the Ausgleich through its preliminary stages in this one sitting (for which it was the Order of the Day), and then by vote refer it to a select committee. [5]
She would wake from those reveries with a laugh, and give me a push to send me rolling down a bank. [9]
I sent secretly four thousand men who were at Wady Halfa to relieve him--if it could be done; five hundred to push forward on the quickest of the armed steamers, the rest to follow as fast as possible. [11]
But Farrar, the flannel of his shirt clinging to the muscular outline of his shoulders, gave him a push which sent him sprawling against the lee refrigerator. [9]
He had prepared everything his master would need to shoot the birds very early in the morning, and after helping the men push the boats into the water, he, too, remained out of doors. [10]
Without doubt the Duke of Bedford has been gathering troops to push to the succor of his strongholds on the Loire. [5]
Decided spurs push down into it from the hills; and great chasms, deep, ragged, impassable, split in the tufa, extend up into it from the sea. [4]
They were not double shutters, hinged at the sides, but a single broad shutter, hinged at the top; you push it outward, from the bottom, and fasten it at any angle required by the sun or desired by yourself. [5]
To-day the governor's daughter, the patrician maiden, can smile at you because she needs you; tomorrow she will cast you aside as I push away the old panther-skin which keeps my feet warm in winter, as soon as the March days come! [10]
Joan was their darling now, and the press of people struggling and shouldering each other to get a glimpse of her was so great that we could hardly push our way through the streets at all. [5]
And yet," she cried, "if you Yankees push us as far as war, Mr. Brice, just look out for him. [9]
By and by Circumstance came again--introducing the Civil War, this time, in order to push me ahead another stage or two toward the literary profession. [5]
Though he was by no means self-convinced of an intention to push the adventure, preferring to leave its possibilities open, he strove in voice and manner to be business-like; and instinct, perhaps, whispered that she might take alarm. [9]
Drawing a long breath, he straightened himself into a more erect posture, and ordered the men to push the boat from the shore. [10]
I would not be willing to belong to a party which allowed its members to have political aspirations or to push friends forward for political preferment. [5]
It had been as though she thrust out arms of infinite length to push him away, such had been the storm of her remorse, such the revulsion against herself and him. [11]
Truth is, the Armours did not try at all to push her. [11]
But there was another shot, and this time, because of the push, the bullet lodged in Fingall's skull. [11]
They won't make another push now," said another. [2]
Late Carscallen, Cloud-in-the-Sky, and myself will push on to Manitou Mountain. [11]
But even you and me don't push our perfections too far --I haven't noticed you going out of your way to do things for your 'poor beloved friend, the Saadat'. [11]
McCann seized it and dived into the cabin, followed closely by my client and those of us who could push after. [9]

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