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.

Chivvying dakus is paradise compared with this sort of thing.

They make us friends or enemies for life: Hortense, half-tamed she-wolf, with envy livid; The patient Snagsby and his shrewish wife; The amorous Guppy, who poor Esther chivvied; Tempestuous Boythorn, revelling in strife; Skimpole, the honey-tongued artistic cadger; And that tremendous woman, Mrs. Badger.

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.

He wos allus willing fur to give me something, he wos, though Mrs. Snagsby, she wos allus a-chivying melike everybody everywheres.

Still there it is, and any officer will tell you that his men look on trench-digging with distaste, have to be constantly persuaded and chivvied into doing anything like their best at it, and on the whole would apparently much rather take their chance in a shallow or poorly-constructed trench than be at the labor of making it deep and safe.

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

Them students is the Devil for chivying of a feller,beggin' your pardon, Mr. Blount.

Nurses chivvied about with little squeals of laughter as they bumped into each other out of the shadow world, but not losing their heads or their hands, with so much work to do.

So, next morning, they all four got up quite as if nothing had happened, and made no allusion to the preceding night, although, they could not help chuckling inwardly a little when the Gordonites came to morning school, brimful of a story about their house having been attacked in the night by thieves, who, after bagging some pigeons, had been chevied by Gordon and the servants.

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

That theer vicious Frederick has been a-chivying of you till you're freetened to death, you are.

But now, having crossed the Rubicon, the rogue must brazen things out which he did by starting a cat out of one of the dingy laurels, chivvying her some way into the house, and returning to shake himself on the front doorstep and bark in absurd triumph.