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Sentences starting with pushed

Pushed and jostled ahead of them were four Indians decked and feathered, the half-dried scalps dangling from their belts, impassive, true to their creed despite the indignity of jolts and jars and blows. [9]

Sentences ending with pushed

Things cannot be pushed. [4]
The small boat is an enormous thing, after all, and propelled by two long, heavy sweeps, one of which is pulled, and the other pushed. [4]
And, Bess, I've guns, and I'll use them if I'm pushed. [13]
The mob shouted and pushed. [9]

Short sentences using pushed

Inquiries are not pushed farther. [9]
I pushed the lever harder--harder. [11]
Honora pushed back her chair. [9]
He pushed forward boldly. [9]
He was pushed away. [9]
They pushed on. [11]

Sentences containing pushed two or more times

And then there were the draughty opera-houses with the sylvan scenery pushed back and plush chairs and sofas pushed forward; with an ominous table, a pitcher of water on it and a glass, near the footlights. [9]
The button-wood throws off its bark in large flakes, which one may find lying at its foot, pushed out, and at last pushed off, by that tranquil movement from beneath, which is too slow to be seen, but too powerful to be arrested. [6]

More example sentences with the word pushed in them

This one, a young soldier, his face deadly pale, his shako pushed back, and his musket resting on the ground, still stood near the pit at the spot from which he had fired. [2]
For instance, do you suppose that I should ever have got into notice if I had waited to be hunted up and pushed forward by older men? [7]
In brief, sir, you are the kind of lad I should have been had not fate pushed me into a corner, and made me squirm for life's luxuries. [9]
If not, it would be the turn next of those whom she herself had pushed into the arms of the fell monster: First Heliodora, and then her mother! [10]
The stones are worn and smooth, and pushed apart in places, so that the road has the exact appearance of those ancient paved highways leading out of Rome which one sees in pictures. [5]
Benedictus opened the wooden gate, and pushed Ulrich into the playground. [10]
When the boats with their chattering passengers had pushed out into the lake and accomplished a third of the voyage, they were met by a skiff containing the faithful chaperons Mrs. Simpkins and Mr. Meigs. [4]
Thus he gazed with mute reproach at the smith for some time, then pushed the goblet far away, exclaiming with sincere indignation: "What doings are these, friend Adam? [10]
He fingered them with incredible rapidity--in fact, he pushed them from place to place as fast as a musical professor's fingers travel over the keys of a piano. [5]
When the ferryboat with her wild freight pushed into the stream, nobody cared sixpence for the wasted time but the captain of the craft. [5]
Medallion, amused, yet with a hushed kind of feeling through all his nerves, pushed the Avocat's tumbler till it touched his fingers. [11]
But she seemed wilful too, and contradictory--at any rate to-day; for when Orion pointed out some move to her she rarely took his advice, but with set lips, pushed the piece according to her own, rarely wiser, judgment. [10]
Those lean Egyptians, who pushed past in silence and haranging their heads, were no doubt bent on carrying offerings to Osiris and Anubis--for the festival of the gods of death and resurrection coincided with the Nekysia--and on winning their favors by magical formulas and spells. [10]
So both those who knew and those who did not know deceived themselves, and pushed on to Smolensk as to a promised land. [2]
On going up-stairs where Mrs. H. was sitting alone, just as I entered the room she pushed a paper across the table towards me, saying that perhaps it might interest me. [6]
By spells she wept, when they quietly pushed her from the room and locked the door. [9]
He found his way to an elevated train, and as it swept along stared unseeing at the people who pushed and jostled him. [9]
Pierre pushed his way into the middle of the group, listened, and convinced himself that the man was indeed a liberal, but of views quite different from his own. [2]
Janet pushed her way deeper and deeper into the crowd. [9]
He pushed his way as far as the obelisks near the great gate of the temple with its winged sun-disc and fluttering pennons, but there the temple-servants prevented him from going farther; they were keeping the avenue of sphinxes clear for a procession. [10]
But then there was something about Cousin Elsie,--(the small, white scars began stinging, as he said this to himself, and he pushed his sleeve up to look at them)--there was something about Cousin Elsie he couldn't make out. [6]
His straw hat was pushed back on his head, his scythe was over his shoulder. [11]
When that door was opened and the prisoners, crowding against one another like a flock of sheep, squeezed into the exit, Pierre pushed his way forward and approached that very captain who as the corporal had assured him was ready to do anything for him. [2]
Admiration for him was born the day he pushed O'Meara out of his office and down a flight of stairs because he had undertaken to suggest that which should be done with the timber in Jackson County. [9]
Still gently chaffing us, he pushed ahead, up the trail, and soon disappeared. [5]
Each one came up, glanced at what had been done, and with horror, reproach, and astonishment pushed back again. [2]
Then she pushed up her cuffs as if she was going to fight for the champion's belt. [6]
His daughter sprang up and offered him the cup full of wine and water which was standing on the table; but Keraunus pushed it aside with his hands, and panted out, while he struggled for breath: "Supersede me--in my place--turn me out of this palace! [10]
He walked with unsteady step to the door and pushed it open. [9]
We pushed along, unheeding its fiery signal to bring to; and declining, she let fly a swivel loaded with grape, and again another, riddling our sail; but we were travelling with wind and tide, and we soon left the indignant patrol behind. [11]
He has not undertaken to say that Trumbull tells a lie about these words being stricken out, but he is really, when pushed up to it, only taking an issue upon the meaning of the words. [7]
The prisoners thronged together and were pushed off the road. [2]
Presently he crept to the door of the office, pushed it open, and beheld Mr. Carvel with his head bowed, down in his hands. [9]
He was about to reply, but, at the instant, a reveller pushed him with a foot behind the knees so that they were sprung forward. [11]
As Charley stooped to put wood in the fire, the tailor thrust a foot forward and pushed the piece of paper further under the table. [11]
Though a desire to meet and talk with quality pushed him hard, he would not go a step to the ordinary, and gave orders to be served in our room, thus fostering the mystery which had enveloped us since our arrival. [9]
Several now wanted to follow his example, but he pushed them off, even thrusting at them with a newly lighted torch, for he could not be quiet in spite of his fatigue. [10]
He kindly tried to cheer her, and to speak words of comfort; but she pushed him away, tore herself from him, and before he could stop her, she had fled out of the room. [10]
It was the time when the youthful Speranski was at the zenith of his fame and his reforms were being pushed forward with the greatest energy. [2]
Up to this time we have submitted to having Mrs. Boinville pushed upon us as ostensibly concerned in these Italian lessons, but the biographer drops her now, of his own accord. [5]
Up to that time the wretch had not spoken a word; now he pushed himself forward, though well clear of me. [9]
For a short time the two stood opposite each other silent and motionless; at last the anchorite pushed the hair from off his brow, which was now for the first time visible. [10]
You had no time for bargaining or coaxing, and so, at the musket's mouth, you drove him from the boat, and pushed it out just as Lancy and his men came riding up. [11]
The Judge, holding tightly to Stephen, pushed his way fiercely to the stand, vowing over and over that the commotion was a secession trick to spoil the furniture and stampede the sale. [9]
The regiments marched through the streets and aboard the boats, and pushed off before a levee of waving handkerchiefs and nags. [9]
Rodney, inheriting the thrift of his ancestors, had pushed out from his home, adapting this thrift to the modern methods of turning it to account. [4]
The more I thought, the more that fact pushed itself upon me--now in one form, now in another. [5]
He has made this show to suit himself, he has pushed out several iron piers into the sea, and erected, of course, a skating rink on the end of one of them. [4]
She was terribly thirsty, and seeing one of the widows mixing some wine and water and offer it to one of the wounded men who pushed it away, she took courage and begged the deaconess to give her a drink. [10]
I think the thing should be pushed forward, so that, if possible, its mature work may reach here by the meeting of Congress. [7]
At that instant there pushed forward into the clear space beside Charley Steele the great figure of Jake Hough, the horse-doctor, the strongest man, and the most popular Englishman on the river. [11]
But Adam pushed them angrily aside. [10]
The reporters took their places and were all attention; the judge and lawyers were in their seats; the crowd swayed and pushed in eager expectancy, as the jury walked in and stood up in silence. [5]
I only saw the word 'Cyprus' on the first paper, and I pushed it over the paper which had the word 'Egypt' on it 'Egypt' and 'Claridge,' lest I should read it. [11]
He set down the water, pushed his way through the group into the hall, where the tumult and the shouting die. [9]
Without moving from the wall she pushed open the door of the sitting room. [9]
The lodger, in the testiness of being so rudely roused, had pushed his nightcap very much on one side of his bald head. [12]
I threw from the shallop into the stream enough wheat to lighten her, and now, well stored and trimmed, we pushed away upon our course, the Chevalier and his men rowing, while my men rested and tended the sail, which was now set. [11]
I pushed through the people, gained the street, and fairly ran down the alley that led to the side entrance of the hall, where a small group was gathered under the light that hung above the doorway. [9]
In spite of the old woman's earnest advice not to mix in the crowd, she had pushed her way through, and, as the men-at-arms dispersed the mob, she came nearer to her favorite but too reckless brother. [10]
She pushed away the old man's hand, and said, "Do not be frightened, Miriam. [10]
I counted out the money, scrutinized by the curious eyes of his companions, and pushed it over to him. [9]
He had turned, the moment he had closed the door, and had pushed it open a little, intending to re-enter and ask what ill-advised thing he had done or said, and apologize for it. [5]
George Fournel pushed the men back who would have entered the bath-room, and himself, bursting the door open, entered. [11]
Panting and puffing, the major grumbled and growled at everybody because he thought he was being pushed and that they were all hurrying when they had nowhere to hurry to and were all surprised at something when there was nothing to be surprised at. [2]
Presently he pushed the little well-worn book over to Medallion. [11]
Mechanically I pushed the lime- juice towards Mulholland, and pointed to the water-bag. [11]
Rising he took the letters silently pushed towards him, and dropped them into the fire. [11]
He had pushed the leaders around and around till they were about to turn in on the inner side of the end of that line of steers. [13]
The chief of the Jain delegation read his paper of congratulations, then pushed it into a beautifully engraved silver cylinder, which was delivered with ceremony into the prince's hands and at once delivered by him without ceremony into the hands of an officer. [5]
Springing forward to the half-open door, he pushed it wide, and met the terror- stricken eyes of Constantine Jopp--the same look that he had seen at the theatre when his hands were on Jopp's throat, but more ghastly. [11]
He thrilled to the finger-tips as he thrust it in his bosom and pushed on. [11]
Wherever he went the enemy shrank before him; the Swedes fled to right and left, or were driven, like dogs, into their own ditch; but as he pushed forward, singly with headlong courage, the foe closed behind and hung upon his rear. [4]
And this was the end of the revolting scene, for, as he spoke, Caesar pushed away his cup and sat staring into vacancy, so pale that his physician, foreseeing a fresh attack, brought out his medicine vial. [10]
Then one of the doors was pushed open a scant four inches, a scarlet madras handkerchief appeared in the crack above a yellow face. [9]
He pushed back the door, fashioned in one great slab from a forest tree. [9]
He pushed open the door, and as soon as his eyes became, accustomed to the tobacco smoke, he surveyed the room. [9]
Returning, he found the dogs cowering with fear, for one of them had pushed the cloth off the dead man's face with his nose, and death exercised its weird dominion over them. [11]
Then he pushed the curtain aside, and the woman whom he had just noticed greeted him with a low cry. [10]
He hastily pushed the curling hair off his damp brow, and said: "I do not understand. [10]
Tell her that the cattle 'll all be hers--an'--the house, an' I ain't got no one but--" But Pierre pushed him back and shut the door, saying: "I'll tell her what a fool you are, Jimmy Throng. [11]
The smith pulled the cart, and Ruth pushed, Hans Eitelfritz, with his sword-bearer, walking by her side. [10]
As she left the car Janet was aware of the presence on the platform of an unusual number of people; she wondered vaguely, as she pushed her way through them, why they were there, what they were talking about? [9]
Then he pushed the bushy grizzled hair, which hung in disorder over his neck and face, out of his eyes, and said cheerfully: "No man is more than man, and many men are less. [10]
Mr. Fairweather slipped the book he was reading into a half-open drawer, and pushed in the drawer. [6]
You don't mean that Rudyard--" She pushed the sjambok away from her. [11]
Perhaps she saw that her own theories of a certain equality of power, which ought to precede a union of two hearts, might be pushed too far. [5]
It is said that a bear is sometimes hard enough pushed to drop a cub; and so I presume it was in this case. [7]
One man, older than the others present, suddenly pushed forward with a scared and angry look and wanted to seize hold of Dolokhov's shirt. [2]
He pushed the table nearer the window, and the singing of the choir in the church came in upon him as his pen seemed to etch words into the paper, firm, eccentric, meaning. [11]
He pushed the surgeon away when he came forward with his needles. [9]
The French, under such men as La Salle, had pushed their trading posts westward to the great lakes and beyond the Missouri, and north to the shores of Hudson's Bay. [11]
He could not succeed in burying himself in charts and plans as usual and, while imagining how life could be endured without the woman he loved, he pushed the papers aside. [10]
But his physical strength was exhausted, so he summoned his companions who pushed forward a rock on which he seated himself, in order to assail the heart of the Most High with fresh prayers. [10]
Indeed, they never strayed; they only rushed and pushed where their spreading tails could be seen by the multitude. [11]
They stood silent, strangely apathetic as we pushed through them to the curb, and the red fire went out suddenly as we descended. [9]
Well, there you stood in some sort of smooth, plain, clingin' gown, a little bit loose and tumblin' at the throat, and your pretty foot with a brown slipper pushed out, just savin' you from bein' prim. [11]
Antinous pushed a step forward but instantly drew two steps back--then covering his eyes with his hand he stood as if rooted to the spot. [10]
We did not stay at Zermatt, but pushed on for the hotel on the top of the Riffelberg,--a very stiff and tiresome climb of about three hours, an unending pull up a stony footpath. [4]
When Val started south for the Border other Injins followed, and when a halt was made at Soldier's Knee they pushed across country over to Fort Desire. [11]

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