In the midst of this commotion Maxton elbowed his way through the crush, and having pushed the two boys off the sink, mounted it himself, crying, "Look here, I'm going to speak; just you listen a minute.

He would make his approaches with quick step, and with elbows evenly bent outwards.

44.] Being at order arms, at the preparatory command quickly raise and turn the rifle, regrasping it with both hands between the rear sight and muzzle, barrel down, thumbs around the stock and toward the butt; at the same time raise the rifle above the shoulder farthest from the opponent, butt elevated and to the rear, elbows slightly bent and knees straight.

Now dust and sun does every one Most terribly annoy; Complaints begun, soon every one Elbows his neighbour boy.

When he goes into a fight it's like his day's work, and he don't waste no talk or elbow action when he's workin'.

Sometimes when I am in a crowded London drawing-room (for I am a town-bird now, acquainted with smoky eaves, and tasting Nature in the parks) quick flights of memory take me back among my father's parishioners while I am still conscious of elbowing men who wear the same evening uniform as myself; and I presently begin to wonder what varieties of history lie hidden under this monotony of aspect.

It was some time before Fanning, elbowing people right and left as he was, could reach the front.

It was made with a long straight skirt slightly high at the waist, round neck and elbow sleeves and with it went soft, wrinkly gloves and a wide hat trimmed with cornflowers.

The child Monona made her knees and elbows stiff and danced up and down.

These little refinements became, indeed, very agreeable, only alloyed by the spirit of caste in which they were performed,elbowing the peasant-woman off the sidewalk for the sake of doffing the hat to the Baroness.

" She bent forward, her elbows on her knees, her gaze on the ashes.

Meanwhile, since the first mention of picnic, the child Monona had been dancing stiffly about the room, knees stiff, elbows stiff, shoulders immovable, her straight hair flapping about her face.

In a twinkling hell had elbowed out heaven, and there on the waters was hatred and savagery and the lust for blood.

Crews of these desperadoes, therefore, the runagates of every country and every clime, might be seen swaggering in open day about the streets, elbowing its quiet inhabitants, trafficking their rich outlandish plunder at half or quarter price to the wary merchant; and then squandering their prize-money in taverns, drinking, gambling, singing, carousing and astounding the neighborhood with midnight brawl and revelry.

Whether there can be a real democracy (as in a city) where there is not that elbow knowledge, that close neighbourhood sympathy, that conscious surrender of little personal goods for bigger public ones, I don't know.

In the crowds that flocked about his bier homespun elbowed gold lace in the grief of a common loss.

Smith drops; Lewis falls to the rear; the ranks are thinning; elbows touch no longer ...

There is no doubt that many of these village stations are not sure means of communication, partly perhaps from carelessness, and partly from the trunk arteries having more important matter to transmit, and elbowing their weaker neighbours out of the field.

Some came into Mess in fancy dress of their own design, and elbowed senior officers off the hearthrug.

One can contemplate a single affliction with some equanimity, but a million griefs, calamities, frustrations, elbowing each otherNo, no!

we have necessarily been compelled to elbow the cavaliers from the stage, and pass by in silence, without listening to them.

"I'll make her sing," said Cannon, and elbowed a path to her side.

A crowd of women does not necessarily make society, any more than do the empty, stupid, and noisy receptions which are sometimes held in the houses of the rich,still less those silly, flippant, ignorant, pretentious, unblushing, and exacting girls who have just escaped from a fashionable school, who elbow their brothers into corners, and cover with confusion their fathers and mothers.

Sailing the seas of the world, touching at strange tropical ports and uncharted islands, elbowing all the races of the globe, hearing all the languages spoken by man,such were Conrad's activities between his twentieth and thirty-seventh years.

But, elbowing instinctive resentment, came uneasiness.