Donald complied with the order without perceptible hesitation, at the same time pushing into full sight.
Five days of pushing the wagon by day and freezing by night brought us to the bad part of the journey--the Forty Mile Desert, or the Great American Desert, if you please.
I understood that his method of rearing me, and then pushing me to the highest spheres of life, pointed to this, that I was to live for his honor.
Wading through that black stuff was like pushing through cotton wool, and besides, the men tracked it all over the clean bunkhouse floor.
Nobody paid any attention except one Valley View boy who was pushing his way toward Pepper's booth, a phonograph record under one skinny arm.
I understand that water and gas pressure keeps pushing oil toward the surface," Sandy said on one occasion, "but then why doesn't it escape?
With a desire to avoid bloodshed he had tried to induce the Spaniards to capitulate by entering into negotiations, instead of pushing on his siege batteries.
As it was the President's instinct to feel his way slowly in pushing on the great measures necessary to the safe guidance of the nation in its perilous crisis, they were naturally dissatisfied with his conservative methods and tendencies.
Bateman has repeatedly seen two of the boys pulling with all their might at his coat-tails, and a third pushingin front, while paterfamilias stood upon the street cordially shaking the hand of an old acquaintance.
The messy clutter in front of the store and the pushing crowds advertised the business.
It was the slow, steady stream of Hollanders pushing southward that civilized Germany.
In the meanwhile, Ferdinand and Maximilian were pushing on to the end which they had long foreseen; and an assembly of princes was invited to meet at Ratisbon in November to assent to the transference of the electorate to the Duke of Bavaria.
Baner had recovered strength, and was pushing on through North Germany into Bohemia.
The League wished to pursue the old policy of pushing forward the interests of the Catholic clergy under cover of legality.
Richelieu, having mastered Lorraine, was pushing on towards Alsace, and if Spain had good reasons for objecting to see Wallenstein established in the Palatinate, she had far better reasons for objecting to see France established in Alsace.
There was a sound of someone pushing through the underbrush, and Roy, facing the woods, waited for his chum to appear.
Wonder what he will say when he hears what Sleuth and I did,” chuckled Roy, gulping down a final mouthful and pushing back from the table.
This information led Lawyer Francis to hasten back to the front of the building, where, pushing his way through the rapidly increasing crowd, he reached Timmick as the latter finally found his key and inserted it in the lock.
He saw Pete's raise and raised again, pushing in two stacks of reds.
He slipped the bit out of Midnight's mouth, pushing the headstall back on the sleek black neck by way of lead rope, and they strode away to the water pen, side by side.
To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.
To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble.
Defn: A wheel turned by persons or animals, by treading, climbing, or pushing with the feet, upon its periphery or face.
Defn: A kind of warm cap winter wear, made from a knit bag with closed tapered ends by pushing one end within the other, thus making a conical cap of double thickness.
Defn: A simple device, resembling a button in form, so arranged that pushing it closes an electric circuit, as of an electric bell.
Setting pole, a pole, often iron-pointed, used for pushing boats along in shallow water.
To mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; to throw into disorder; especially, to change the relative positions of, as of the cards in a pack.
The act of jostling and pushing for something desired; eager and unceremonious struggle for what is thrown or held out; as, a scramble for office.
A kind of cap or cover, or sometimes a broad ring, for the end of the finger, used in sewing to protect the finger when pushing the needle through the material.
To propel, as a boat in shallow water, by pushing with a pole against the bottom; to push or propel (anything) with exertion.
To push or drive forward; to move onward by pushing or jostling.
Treatment shown by an enemy; mercy; especially, the act of sparing the life a conquered enemy; a refraining from pushing one's advantage to extremes.
Pushing up against them, the head of a sperm cell, consisting almost entirely of the nucleus of the cell and carrying the determinants which were to decide one-half of its future characters, penetrated this egg and fused with its nucleus.
During the night he led his army around Cornwallis's camp, and pushing on to Princeton defeated the rear-guard, which had not yet joined the main body.
For many years, French explorers, priests, and traders had toiled on, patiently pushing their way through the forests, and planting stronghold after stronghold.
Pushing on, they found a quiet harbor which they fittingly called Point Comfort.
Every moment, however, there was so much tempestuous pushing that the young priest would assuredly have fallen if a rough hand had not upheld him.
There was such applause and such violent, instinctive pushing that Berthaud, waving his arms, commanded the bearers to thrust the crowd back by pulling strongly on the cords.
Passing through a large room with a divan round it, and pushing aside a curtain at the farther end, you came upon another and smaller court, which was a garden with a fountain in the middle, well filled with date and other palms.
Increasing health costs are of deep concern to all and a powerful force pushing up the cost of living.
We are maintaining stability in the strategic nuclear balance and pushing back the specter of nuclear war.
The scientific corps of the Department is of a high order and is pushing its investigations with method and enthusiasm.
For years I've asked that we stop pushing onto our children the excesses of our government.
And in our major trade negotiations, I will continue pushing to eliminate tariffs and subsidies that damage America's farmers and workers.
Already, pushing down tax rates has freed our economy to vault forward to record growth.
He was doing this when a child came skipping joyously across the common, and pushing her way up to him through the circle of his listeners, handed him a note.
She turned with a cry, dropping her rake and pushing her sun-bonnet back from her eyes.
She walked slowly, as if lost in thought, yet never missed pushing aside with a decided gesture of her foot every stone that lay in her way.
She smiled at that, pushing away her falling hair.
I have, likewise, enclosed twelve receipts; not that I mean to impose upon you the trouble of pushing them, with more importunity than may seem proper, but that you may rather have more than fewer than you shall want.
