But these were slight difficulties for our brilliant "pushful" young man. ❋ Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald (1879)
And that when he was simply seeking an all-round nervous stimulant to bring languid people up to the stresses of these pushful days. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
Of a surety not in the pushful set of jobbers and tricksters he was condemned to live amongst. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He was invaded by a set of soft, pushful feelings and wishes, such as he had not dreamed were in him. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The house had long been looked upon as something of a white elephant in the theatrical jungle; but Lumley, being pushful and knowledgeable, soon built up a valuable following and set the establishment on its legs. ❋ Horace Wyndham (N/A)
Having discovered his niche, the pushful Smith soon had his fingers in several other pies. ❋ Horace Wyndham (N/A)
Herbert, a young officer in the ant A.S.C. When we first knew Herbert (or "'Erb" as he was known in those days), he was an impudent and pushful private. ❋ Various (N/A)
Major Mallaby-Kelby was a keen pushful officer, immensely eager to maintain the well-known efficiency of the Brigade while the colonel was away; but he took me into his confidence on another matter. ❋ George Herbert Fosdike Nichols (N/A)
Spring comes early in the sheltered, southern bay of Monkshaven, and already the bracken was sending up pushful little shoots of young green, curled like a baby's fist, while the primroses, bunched together in clusters, thrust peering faces impertinently above the green carpet of the woods. ❋ Margaret Pedler (N/A)
Though personally I knew nothing about Rhodes, and was inclined to like an adventurous, pushful spirit, it was clear to me that, holding the views I did as to the functions of the journalist, I had no choice but to bark my loudest. ❋ Strachey, John St Loe (1922)
Jackson, in his way, was the archetype of the new Americanignorant, pushful, impatient of restraint and precedent, an iconoclast, a Philistine, an Anglophobe in every fibre. ❋ Henry Louis (1921)
The typical qualities of dissent became a certain pushful exertion by which the external criteria of salvation could be secured. ❋ Harold Joseph Laski (1921)
Servia and Greece have long watched the rapid and uninterrupted progress of their pushful neighbour with mixed feelings of fear and envy. ❋ Frank Fox (1917)
Meredith, or even Oscar Wilde, would increase and grow brighter with time, till, in one hundred or five hundred years, no one would dream of comparing pushful politicians like Gladstone or Beaconsfield with men of genius like Swinburne or Wilde. ❋ Harris, Frank (1916)
Dr. Chaptman is pushful, enterprising and progressive. ❋ Unknown (1915)
Bishop J.W. Wells is found among the young clergymen of North Louisiana, energetic, aggressive, and pushful. ❋ Unknown (1915)
Being pushful he studied at home by the light of the old-time tallow candle and pine-knot, and made his way to the front ❋ Unknown (1915)
What a strong, pushful, resourceful hand it is when it is endowed with healthy vitality! ❋ 1817-1893 (1913)
There are rushful, pushful people from "the States," stiff-tongued Germans, ginger-headed Icelanders, Galicians, Norwegians, Poles, and Frenchmen, all of whom are rapidly becoming irreproachably Canadian. ❋ Emily Ferguson (1910)
Swinburne, Meredith, or even Oscar Wilde, would increase and grow brighter with time, till, in one hundred or five hundred years, no one would dream of comparing pushful politicians like Gladstone or Beaconsfield with men of genius like Swinburne or Wilde. ❋ Harris, Frank (1910)
