He was chivvying a cat that was after the pheasants at Creedmorehe's absurdly young, you knowand he came down at some hurdles.'

A throwback, no doubt, to the time when she counted the day lost that was not spent in chivvying some unfortunate fox over the countryside.

And then I thought of how I caught an eel in the Corriemuir burn and chivied her about with it, until she ran screaming under my mother's apron half mad with fright, and my father gave me one on the ear-hole with the porridge stick which knocked me and my eel under the kitchen dresser.

Why, you ought to be ashamed of yourself, chivvying a young lady that doesn't want you.

Hoo buys mony a quart of me, an' then hoo chivies me out o' th' road.

Thanks to him I can, for the expenditure of a few shillings, hear Homer sing and Socrates talk and Rabelais laugh; I can go chivvying the sheep with Don Quixote and roaming the hills with Borrow; I can carry the whole universe of Shakespeare in my pocket, and call up spirits to drive Dismal Jemmy from my pillow.