My word, I could scarcely walk, and as for climbing a ship's ladderI could never have done if some one hadn't given me a boost behind and some one else a hand at the top.

When finally she spoke, it was to deliver an impressive boost: "Bertie, do you read Tennyson?"

Damn it, if you hadn't given Paul Abbey the cold turn-down, I might have got a boost over this hill.