Laura gave him a little push which precipitated him in a rather abrupt manner into a chair and completely spoiled his gallantry.

repeated the latter, giving Diggory's arm a gentle push.

In another place, he curiously contrasts the too timid practice of some regular physicians, with the hazardous treatment, which is the leading feature of quacks: "The timid, low, insipid practice with some, is almost as dangerous as the bold, unwarranted empiricism of others; time and opportunity, never to be regained, are often lost by the former; while with the latter, by a bold push, you are sent off the stage in a moment.

But Nancy was a girl rich in courage and enterprise, while Gilbert's manliness and leadership and discretion and consideration for others needed a vigorous, decisive, continued push.

For answer Jack gave him a sharp push, and the discomfited plunderer hurried on with a good-humored grunt.

Nothing had any stability; so that the slightest push or jerk would upset everything that was not fixed.

" She gave him a sudden push and darted away.

Now the lady held out her hand and said in a friendly tone, "Come here, dear child" Churi....unexpectedly gave him such a severe push that Erick rolled down the rest of the mountain side

Little John Clinton darted out and gave the child a violent push, at the risk of being run over himself, and got the little one to the side of the road in safety.

What blood-vessels the poor struggler burst in his desperate push for lifehow much he was bruised and lacerated in his plunge through the forest, or how much the dogs tore him, the Macon editor has not chronicledthey are matters of no momentbut his heart is touched with the merits of Mr. Adams' 'EXCELLENT DOGS,' that 'soon run down and secured' a guiltless and trembling human creature!

So Ulysses wandered over the oceans as had the king of Ithaca over the Mediterranean, guided by a fatality which impelled him with a rude push far from his country every time that he proposed to return to it.

Now if the 1st of these constructions could be arranged, I have no doubt that it would be the best of all, because a sea does not break against a perpendicular face, but recoils in an unbroken swell, merely making a slow quiet push at the wall, and not making a violent impact.

To give the last decisive push to those who are already toppling over the border-line that divides England from Rome, to reap and gather-in the harvest already ripe for the sickle, is a useful, a necessary, and a charitable work; one that calls for a certain kind of patient skill not to be underestimated; but there is a wider and perhaps more fruitful field whose soil is as yet scarcely broken.

"Well, we are not wanting electric push buttons," said Tom.

Quite a light push might do it.

About the second or third one he operated upon, his treacherous friend stumbled against him, giving him a tremendous push, and with a sheep in his arms he drove head foremost among the washers.

" Harry Underwood elbowed his wife away from my side with a playful push, and held out his hand.

He gave one extra hard push, and there he was through the big crack, and outside the pen.

The point near the bridge held for some time, until the weight behind forced some part down and crunched its way through in one irresistible push; the other part rose over the resistance and rolled like an avalanche over and over, smashing itself into huge blocks which were forced into a rampart fifty feet high, when the enormous weight broke the ice platform on which it was piled, and the whole moved majestically off towards the Volga.

Mäzli was ready before anyone, because she had thrown everything into her box and then with a little pushing had been able to put on the lid.

When traveling three or four miles an hour, the little train, with the locomotive pushing instead of pulling it, can be stopped instantly.

" "For pity's sake," said Norah, giving the little busybody a good-natured push.

This is necessary because the nervous current pushes on past obstructions, through areas in the brain, until it ends in some form of movement, and in finding the way out, it seeks those pathways that have been most frequently travelled.

There was no sound, save the occasional pushing of a chair, or the click of a plate or a glass upon the table, as Martin Delano passed from the room.

Those boys were not unkind, they simply represented that onward push which is one of the grandest characteristics of your sex; and the little girls, on the other hand, represented that gentleness and thoughtfulness of others which is eminently a characteristic of women.