Tim Keenan gave a final
shove forward and stepped back again.
Tom, with the butt of his rifle, gave it a gentle
shove, whereupon the creature scurried off through the brush as though glad to make its escape unscathed.
"Fetch it, fetch it!" shouted Levin, giving Laska a
shove from behind.
Nine logs was enough for one time; he must
shove right over to town and sell.
I rested two or three minutes, and then gave the boat another
shove, and so on, till the sea was no higher than my arm-pits; and now, the most laborious part being over, I took out my other cables, which were stowed in one of the ships, and fastened them first to the boat, and then to nine of the vessels which attended me; the wind being favourable, the seamen towed, and I shoved, until we arrived within forty yards of the shore; and, waiting till the tide was out, I got dry to the boat, and by the assistance of two thousand men, with ropes and engines, I made a shift to turn it on its bottom, and found it was but little damaged.
Hardly had I completed these arrangements when my name was sung out by a dozen voices, and I sprung upon the deck, where I found all the party in the boat, and impatient to shove off.
Since leaving the canoe-house we had scarcely exchanged a single syllable with one another; but when we entered a second narrow opening in the wood, and again caught sight of the ridge before us, I took Toby by the arm, and pointing along its sloping outline to the lofty heights at its extremity, said in a low tone, 'Now, Toby, not a word, nor a glance backward, till we stand on the summit of yonder mountain--so no more lingering but let us shove ahead while we can, and in a few hours' time we may laugh aloud.
Unfastening the rope that had moored it to the tree, Jane pushed frantically upon the bow of the heavy canoe, but for all the results that were apparent she might as well have been attempting to shove the earth out of its orbit.
Jane Clayton, working furiously to shove the boat beyond his reach, suddenly realized that she was to be successful, for with a little lurch the dugout swung quickly into the current, just as the Russian reached out to place his hand upon its bow.
The ninth sounded and was gone, when the referee gave Ponta a last backward
shove and Joe came to his feet, bunched up, covered up, weak, but cool, very cool.
Stevens reached over two seats to
shove Lowry after the Toronto guard crashed into the stands going after a loose ball.
Never
shove that bore brush into the barrel while it's attached to the gun.