No sooner had they pushed off, than the savages let fly a shower of arrows, which killed Greene outright, and mortally wounded some of the others, among them Perse, who had hitherto escaped.

At the same moment he pushed his foster brother with his foot, to awaken him, and he got on his feet; but ere he got his eyes to see clearly, one of the ruffians that were advancing to slay the king, killed him with a stroke of his sword.

By means of a number of landings the Japanese soon conquered the whole coast of China, so cutting off all supplies to the country; against hard fighting in some places they pushed inland along the railways and conquered the whole eastern half of China, the richest and most highly developed part of the country.

As she sat there in her kitchen, wearing her soap-stained and faded blue gingham, and the dust-cap pushed back at a rakish angle, a simpering little smile about her lips, she was really very much like the disappointed old maids you used to see so cruelly pictured in the comic valentines.

Then she laughed, a hard, high little laugh, pushed a plate away contemptuously with her hand, and walked into the sitting room.

" Terry pushed her way to the edge of the counter and leaned over.

She pushed her glass aside and leaned forward on her folded arms, so that her face was close to Terry's.

Julia pushed him away, loosened the coat with fingers that shook and dropped it to the floor.

"Mad!" Mary Gowd threw her hat on the bed, pushed aside a screen and busied herself with a little alcohol stove.

Her hair was pushed back wildly from her forehead.

" Perry fumbled confusedly in his pocket, found a folded paper and pushed it out through the camel's mouth.

It was like the sudden opening of a gigantic blast-furnace, and in that instant I saw him vividlyhis thin, saturnine face, his damp black hair pushed sleekly back, his lips twisted to a cruel smile, his eyes craftily alert, as if to some ambushed danger continually at hand.

As I pushed off and took up the oars he had eyes for nothing but the flaming cone, as if its leaping fires held for him an Apocalyptic vision.

The drivers pushed them into the crowd that invaded the "tchitoka."

During all that day the grave-diggers' labors were pushed on with briskness.

Negoro pushed open the door of the hut without knocking.

They embarked, pushed as far as Cape Malaya, and after a minute exploration, were of the opinion that the great lake had for an outlet a branch of the Loualaba.

S. V. With a vigorous plow of the oar, Hercules had pushed toward the left bank.

Copious libations were poured out to the tutelary saint of Kamchatkan explorers, and giving and receiving three hearty cheers we pushed off and began to make our way slowly up the river with poles and paddles toward the Kamchadal settlement of Okuta (o-koo'-tah).

Viushin, however, with characteristic energy, hauled the drowning wretches in by their hair, rapped them over the head with a paddle to restore consciousness, pushed the boat off sand-bars, kept its head up stream, poled, rowed, jumped into the water, shouted, swore, and proved himself fully equal to any emergency.

After breakfast the tent was struck, camp equipage packed up, and taking seats in the stern-sheets of our whale-boat we pushed off and resumed our slow ascent of the river.

What more could Caesar ask!After some demur we all took seats upon bearskins in the bottoms of the canoes, and pushed off.

Early in the forenoon we were inspirited by the sight of fresh men and horses which had been sent out to meet us from a native village called Sidanka (see-dahn'-kah), and exchanging our tired, lame, and disheartened animals for these fresh recruits, we pushed rapidly on.

-bye at the beach, and they pushed off.

After a rest of a few moments we pushed on, and after another hour of hard work we succeeded in gaining what seemed to be the crest of the mountain, perhaps 2000 feet above the sea.